https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw A Light Set Upon Their Wealth en-us 2021-09-17 15:54:21 UTC 2025-10-09 23:41:57 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f3f0.png 22bzachary https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749088162 After the Great Depression hit, only one of the Vanderbilt mansions that were built stayed standing, as they made and spent a lot of money, the Great Depression suppressed the rich as well.]]> 2021-09-17 16:02:33 UTC https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749088162 22bzachary https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749112532 Cornelius put his face and name upon every dollar bill, and every stock trade he sold. This is so he could believe that woman were buying his trade because he was on the front.]]> 2021-09-17 16:13:17 UTC https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749112532 22bzachary https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749115840 After railroad was finally built, Vanderbilt had visions to expand.]]> 2021-09-17 16:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749115840 22bzachary https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749120849 Died January 4th, 1877. In fact, it was suicide...]]> 2021-09-17 16:16:00 UTC https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749120849 22bzachary https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749129384 A sophisticated, business man. He took every chance he got to expand the US Central.
"The public be damned!" he says to a newspaper reporter.]]> 2021-09-17 16:19:27 UTC https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749129384 22bzachary https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749141150 She helped build a house in Manhattan, and clearly the queen of costumes back in the Gilded Age.]]> 2021-09-17 16:24:05 UTC https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749141150 22bzachary https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749150603 "The first generation makes it, the second generation exploits it, and the third generation fizzes out."
As making a vision takes all, and to do something that takes all on board, different generations draw the ability out of the vision. Like expanding and exploring west of the New York Central Railroad. As going west would have gave them loads of money, an estimate that is too much to count.]]> 2021-09-17 16:28:37 UTC https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749150603 22bzachary https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749157994 Alva Vanderbilt divorced her husband. Woman of this age were not supposed to speak up over their husband, and all rights were stripped. As a woman, she refuses this lifetime sentence held by her society. The Gilded Age frowned upon leadership held over a woman's shoulders. It was just un-conceivable. ]]> 2021-09-17 16:31:37 UTC https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749157994 22bzachary https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749164445 Neelly fought with his father in war, Cornelius. The Vanderbilt's had a terrible argument one day. And Cornelius resulted in a heart attack. And later died]]> 2021-09-17 16:34:30 UTC https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749164445 22bzachary https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749168036 After all houses and mansions fell after the great depression, the last one stands as a tourist attraction to this day; to give insight on what living in wealth was like.]]> 2021-09-17 16:36:06 UTC https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749168036 22bzachary https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749172350 54 millions dollars were divided between his wife and his children.
Their family worth, today, would lie around $2.1 billion/]]> 2021-09-17 16:38:05 UTC https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749172350 22bzachary https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749181718 She was an American Sculptor, Art Patron, and a collector. She founded the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
She died April 18th, 1942.]]> 2021-09-17 16:42:15 UTC https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749181718 22bzachary https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749189673 "If you love me like i love you no knife can cut our love in two"
She was a designer, an inventor, of anything you can think of. Jeans, low fat/low cholesterol ice cream. Yes, I mean almost anything.]]> 2021-09-17 16:45:49 UTC https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749189673 22bzachary https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749198319 The New York Central merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad, it's arch-rival.]]> 2021-09-17 16:49:43 UTC https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749198319 22bzachary https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749201840 2021-09-17 16:51:16 UTC https://padlet.com/22bzachary/iums1dwt4w2yjqzw/wish/1749201840