. Leslie's history of the greater New York . es of track. He is per-sonally a diret-tor of fifty railroadcompanies, of many of which he iscither President or has made many liberal ])ossessor of one of thefinest private art collections inNew York, at a cost of .f53,000he purchased Rosa Bonheurs cele-brated painting, The HorseIair, and ])i-esented it to the Metrojiolitan Museum of 1887 he devoted S;75,000 to the erection of the building forthe r;ulroad branch of the Y. M. C. A., at Madison Avenueand Iorty fifth Street. In conjunction with his mother, the lateM
. Leslie's history of the greater New York . es of track. He is per-sonally a diret-tor of fifty railroadcompanies, of many of which he iscither President or has made many liberal ])ossessor of one of thefinest private art collections inNew York, at a cost of .f53,000he purchased Rosa Bonheurs cele-brated painting, The HorseIair, and ])i-esented it to the Metrojiolitan Museum of 1887 he devoted S;75,000 to the erection of the building forthe r;ulroad branch of the Y. M. C. A., at Madison Avenueand Iorty fifth Street. In conjunction with his mother, the lateMrs. Wiliian) H. Aanderbilt, he erected in 1891 the costly stoneand brick building on Icuty-second Street, near Third Avenue, dedi-cated to missionary work in connection with St. BartholomewsChurch. He subscribed |100,000 toward the erection of the newProtestant Episcojial Cathedral of St. John the Divine. With histhree brothers he built the Yanderbilt Clinic, and donated it to theNew York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has erected a. VANDKEBILT. OF NEW YORK BIOGRAPHY. 125 duiiuitdiy for Yale Uuiversitv as a memorial of lii^; eldest sou. Will-iam Heury Vanderbilt, who died diiriug his college course. He wasone of the company of eminent New York citizens who built thenew Opera House, after the destruction of its predecessor by 27, 1892. Born at New Dorp, S. I., November 27, 1S43, hisboyhood was spent upon the farm which his father at that tinu wasmanaging. Following the ac(iuisiti()n of an at-ademic education, hebecame clerk in the Shoe and Leather Bank of this city, and for threeyears was also in the euqdoy of the banking firm of Kissam his grandfather offered him a responsible jiosition in the of-fice of the Hailem Jiailroad. In 1S(;7 he became Treasurer of theroad. Upon his grandfathers death in 1S77 he succeeded his fatheras First Nice-President of the New York Central and Hudson BiverRailroad, in charge of its ti
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