. The great American book of biography . about $800,000. Thevessels, and the eift wasresolution of thanks, andthe event, to be struck Commodore Vanderbilts lu ^l-^-fiffi- ■^ -1- ^^i$:^. THE VANDERBILT FAMILY DRIVING IN CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK. of his life, in New York city. No. 10 Washington Place, his first grand housewas in Staten Island, and built upon a corner of his fathers farm, which he hadbought when quite a young man, and which, before he built upon it, wasrecognized by the neighbors as Corneels lot. Its site, when bought, wason the northeast corner of the farm, and very near the water
. The great American book of biography . about $800,000. Thevessels, and the eift wasresolution of thanks, andthe event, to be struck Commodore Vanderbilts lu ^l-^-fiffi- ■^ -1- ^^i$:^. THE VANDERBILT FAMILY DRIVING IN CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK. of his life, in New York city. No. 10 Washington Place, his first grand housewas in Staten Island, and built upon a corner of his fathers farm, which he hadbought when quite a young man, and which, before he built upon it, wasrecognized by the neighbors as Corneels lot. Its site, when bought, wason the northeast corner of the farm, and very near the waters edge, but laterimprovements in filling in carried out the shore-line nearly an eighth of a mile 498 CORNELIUS VANDERBILT. beyond the house, which is situated upon a rise of land overlooking the bay,the approach being handsomely terraced, and separated from the road by asubstantial stone coping and high iron fence. Mr. Vanderbilts death occurred on the morning of the 4th of January,1877, after an illness of six months, the result of a complication of great bulk of his gigantic fortune descended to his son William H. Commodore Vanderbilt was the father of thirteen c
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