https://padlet.com/8392799/5iyqcu67vsc1 Cornelius Vanderbilt en-us 2017-12-18 18:32:35 UTC 2017-12-18 19:01:49 UTC hello@padlet.com 8392799 https://padlet.com/8392799/5iyqcu67vsc1/wish/217058459 Cornelius Vanderbilt was born on May 27, 1794. He grew up in Staten Island, New York, at the age of 11 he quit school and began to work with his father, they would ferry cargo and passengers between Staten Island and Manhattan. Cornelius Vanderbilt was a self-made multi-millionaire due to his expertise in shipping and railroads, he became one of the wealthiest Americans of the 19th century. ]]> 2017-12-18 18:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/8392799/5iyqcu67vsc1/wish/217058459 8392799 https://padlet.com/8392799/5iyqcu67vsc1/wish/217065766 Vanderbilt went into business for himself in the late 1820s, and eventually became one of the country’s largest steamship operators. In the process, the Commodore, gained a reputation for being fiercely competitive and ruthless. In the 1860s, he shifted his focus to the railroad industry, where he built another empire and helped make railroad transportation more efficient. ]]> 2017-12-18 18:52:17 UTC https://padlet.com/8392799/5iyqcu67vsc1/wish/217065766 8392799 https://padlet.com/8392799/5iyqcu67vsc1/wish/217067069 Earlier in his business career he probably was the greatest shipping tycoon in the United States. His estate was worth 100 million dollars. In 1829 Vanderbilt decided to go on his own and began passenger and freight service on the New York City-Peekskill Hudson River route. Again he competed on the basis of price and quickly eliminated the competition. He then expanded his service to Albany, New York. He also opened passenger and freight service to the Long Island Sound, Providence and Connecticut areas. By the 1840s Vanderbilt had a fleet of 100 steamships and he had become the biggest employer in the United States. At that point he not only competed on the basis of price but also on the basis of comfort, size, speed, luxury and elegance in the steamship passenger transportation industry.

]]> 2017-12-18 18:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/8392799/5iyqcu67vsc1/wish/217067069 8392799 https://padlet.com/8392799/5iyqcu67vsc1/wish/217068187 He donated $50,000 to the Church of the Strangers and $1 million to Central University, which then became Vanderbilt University. During the U.S. Civil War, Vanderbilt donated his largest and fastest steamship to the Union Navy. It was used to chase down Confederate raiders.]]> 2017-12-18 18:57:24 UTC https://padlet.com/8392799/5iyqcu67vsc1/wish/217068187