All Things Anderson: William Henry Vanderbilt

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This is a second in a array of articles about Anderson Cooper's family tree. This week you take a look during William Henry Vanderbilt, Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper's good grandfather. Again interjection to Viewer in Virginia for penning a array for us as well as to Em for a puzzle. ~Phebe

Cornelius as well as Sophia had twelve children, eleven of whom survived to adulthood. The initial three were girls; Phebe, Ethelinda as well as Eliza. The fourth was a boy, William Henry. He was thin as well as delicate as well as no doubt this affected a way his full of health as well as vigorous father perceived his eldest son. Appearances can be deceiving, as you shall see.
As it did not crop up which William would be most help in using a expanding shipping as well as rail business, Cornelius sent him to Staten Island to run a single of a family's farms. Lo as well as behold, a son turned a plantation around, reorganized it as well as finished money. This pleased a father so most which he put William in assign of a newly acquired Long Island Railroad. Once again, he valid to be his father's son, as well as finished a once bankrupt line in to a income maker.Cornelius, now some-more certain he had a worthy heir, gave his son some-more shortcoming using a railroad portion of a company. By a mid 1860's, Cornelius had abandoned shipping to concentrate upon a railroads. He as well as William successfully joined 5 rail lin! es in a New York area in to a single vast one, a previously mentioned New York Central Railroad.
William became a solitary manager of a Vanderbilt holdings when Cornelius died in 1877. The father died knowing his life's work was in capable hands. William stretched a rail operations in to a Midwest-- as distant as St. Louis MO as well as as distant south as Cincinnati, OH. Like his father had finished most years before, he used rate cuts to get as well as keep customers, to a detriment of competitors. He also fought sovereign regulation of a railroads.On a personal side, he tied together during age 19 to Mary Louisa Kissam. They had eight children, a eldest, a son, was Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a great-grandfather of Anderson. Going to a Opera (depicting William Henry Vanderbilt family) by Seymour Guy 1873

William was really opposite from his father in a single way, though. He was inexhaustible with his money--he continued to give to Vanderbilt University, to Columbia College of Physicians as well as Surgeons. He could afford to be equitable as well as generous, as he had doubled his father's happening as well as did it in a space of 10 years. He retired early (compared to his father) because of his poor health as well as died during age 64. The Vanderbilt businesses were worth, in our dollars, 52 billion. Perhaps because he was delicate as well as frail, his viewpoint upon earthly products as well as income was opposite from his parsimonious father who was only meddlesome in creation money. William finished most bequests to organizations in New York, as well as divided a happening amongst his siblings, young kids as well as others some-more fairly than his ! father h ad.

These two, Cornelius as well as William, founded a largest personal happening ever in American history. They were dual men in a right place during a right time. Cornelius realized a worth of moving people as well as products well as well as cheaply, as well as invented a business indication which had never been seen before. William learned as well as stretched his father's innovations (some not all good, of course). What they achieved was original as well as a ripples are still coming down through history. One alternative outcome of a strange wealth a initial dual Vanderbilt men accumulated: their offspring contributed to a period of a late 1800's known as The Gilded Age, when income was literally no intent as well as a make use of as both an indicator of standing as well as payoff brought to a American consciousness a difference thriving amounts of income finished in life. ~Viewer in Virginia

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