. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. king time was devoted to enter-prises of benevolence. His gifts to Yale, fromwhich University he received the honorary degree ofMaster of Arts in 1894, was Vanderbilt Hall, a William Henry, succeeded to the management of dormitory costing $1,000,000, a memorial of histhe Vanderbilt properties, Cornelius was advanced eldest son, William H., who died there while ato the Vice-Presidency and in 1886 to the Presi- stud
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. king time was devoted to enter-prises of benevolence. His gifts to Yale, fromwhich University he received the honorary degree ofMaster of Arts in 1894, was Vanderbilt Hall, a William Henry, succeeded to the management of dormitory costing $1,000,000, a memorial of histhe Vanderbilt properties, Cornelius was advanced eldest son, William H., who died there while ato the Vice-Presidency and in 1886 to the Presi- student in his Junior year. Cornelius Vanderbilt married Alice Gwinn of Cincinnati, by whom hehad six children : William H., who died while pur-suing his studies as an undergraduate at Yale, Cor-nelius Jr., Gertrude, Reginald, Alfred and GladysVanderbilt. The first intimation of a failure of hisphysical powers came in the form of a stroke ofparalysis in 1896, from which he recovered, butwhich caused him to withdraw from active second attack prostrated him suddenly in theearly morning of September 12, 1899, at his resi-dence in New York, causing his death in a CORNFXIUS VANDERBILT dency. He was also made Vice-President of theNew York Central, becoming Chairman on theBoard of Directors on the retirement of his fatherfrom the Presidency of that road some years different times he was given other places oftrust, among them President of the Canadian South-ern Railway, and was thus inducted into the man-agement of the estate which he assumed on thedeath of his father in 1885. The magnitude of thefinancial responsibility which he assumed and suc-cessfully carried may be judged by the fact that, atthe time of his death, the aggregate of railwaycapital alone represented in the Vanderbilt Roads approximated $1,000,000,000. Mr. Vanderbilt wasin the best sense of the word a public-spirite<l WAITE, Morrison Remick Vale 1837, 1872 — Columbia 18
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