. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. niHnnnwnlmnnmflift^ The Staten Island Ferry-Boy, the Successful Steamboat Owner and Distinguished Railroad HE FATHERof Cornelius
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. niHnnnwnlmnnmflift^ The Staten Island Ferry-Boy, the Successful Steamboat Owner and Distinguished Railroad HE FATHERof Cornelius Van-derbilt, steamboat and rail-road owner, was a well=^ to do farmer, who, ^^^^. with his wife, lived on Staten Island atan early day. Here, Cornelius,the eldest of afamily of severalchildren, was bornMay 27, 1794. Whenseventeen years old,a strong, active boy, daring and courageous, he hadthe reputation, even thus young, of accomplishingwhatever he undertook. Being passionately fond of the water, hehad assisted his father for some years in sailing a boat from StatenIsland to New York, in the transportation of passengers and farmproduce. This experience only confirmed him in his desire to followthe water, and he was seventeen years of age when he impor-tuned his mother to lend him SIOO with which to buy ii boat, that hemight become a boatman in New York harbor. His mother, a clear-beaded woman, realizing the importance of a child knowing the valueof money by having earned it, gave him the promise of the money oncondition that he plow, harrow and plant a certain t
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