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Vanderbilt, Cornelius (Navigator railroad president)

navigator, railroad president, was born May 27, 1794, on Staten Island, N. Y. In 1862 he presented to the federal government his finest steamer, worth $800,000. He founded the Vanderbilt university at Nashville, Tenn., for the education of youth of the methodist episcopal church. He was president of the Harlem, the Hudson River and Central railroad of New York up to his eighty-second year, and his enterprise, genius and success, says the Merchants' Magazine, are known and felt the world over. He died Jan. 4, 1877, in New York.