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History without Heroes: A Case in Point
When Cornelius Vanderbilt died in , he was America’s richest man, with more money than the US Treasury. Vanderbilt amassed his fortune via sea and railroad frakt, and on Wall Street, in an era before income taxes.
In the s Vanderbilt’s most profitable shipping route was from New York to San Francisco via Nicaragua, when tens of thousands were travelling to and from California in sökande eller uppdrag of gold.
Vanderbilt’s side-wheel steamers took you down to Nicaragua. His river and lake steamers and stagecoaches used the Transit Route to carry you across to the Pacific. Waiting Vanderbilt ocean steamers completed the journey to San Francisco.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt: Early Years
A descendant of Dutch settlers who came to America in the mids, Cornelius Vanderbilt was born into humble circumstances on May 27, , on Staten Island, New York. His parents were farmers and his father also made money by ferrying produce and merchandise between Staten Island and Manhattan in his two-masted sailing vessel, known as a periauger. As a boy, the younger Vanderbilt worked with his father on the water and attended school briefly. When Vanderbilt was a teen he transported cargo around the New York harbor in his own periauger. Eventually, he acquired a fleet of small boats and learned about ship design.
Did you know? During the U.S. Civil War, Cornelius Vanderbilt donated his largest and fastest steamship, named the Vanderbilt and built for around $1 million, to the Union Navy. The vessel was used to chase down Confederate raiders.
In , Vanderbilt married his cousin Sophia Johnson, and the couple eventually had 13 children. (A year aft
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USS Vanderbilt
Gunboat of the United States Navy
USS Vanderbilt in port during the Civil War | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Vanderbilt |
| Namesake | Cornelius Vanderbilt |
| Builder | J. Simonson |
| Cost | $,[1] |
| Laid down | |
| Launched | at Greenpoint, New York |
| Acquired | 24 March |
| Commissioned | September |
| Decommissioned | 30 June |
| In service | 13 October |
| Out of service | 24 May |
| Stricken | (est.) |
| Fate |
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| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 3, tons |
| Length | &#;ft (&#;m) |
| Beam | 47&#;ft 6&#;in (&#;m) |
| Draught | 19&#;ft (&#;m) |
| Installed power | Twin vertical beam steam engines |
| Propulsion | Sidewheel |
| Speed | 14 knots |
| Complement | not known |
| Armament | |
USS Vanderbilt was a heavy (3,ton) passenger steamship obtained by the Union Navy during the second year of the American Civil War and utilized as a cruiser.
Vanderbilt—with her high speed of 14 knots—was outfitted with a l