As a great-grandson of the tough old Commodore who built the New York Central, Cornelius Vanderbilt had some claims to aristocracy. Grace’s social assets were far more modest. Her father ...

Cornelius Vanderbilt was born on the 27th day of May, in the year 1794, on a farm on Staten Island. His father was a well-to-do agriculturist, not possessed of any considerable fortune ...

Private Jacob L. (“Jakie”) Webb, 27, playful great-great-grandson of the original Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, sued his wife for divorce while he sweated out a sentence, his second ...

The Vanderbilt family's wealth grew out of the shipping and railroad industries, both of which were largely monopolized by the the family patriarch, Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt, in the late ...

Buell Hall is the only reminder of the lost Bloomingdale Asylum and the battle between real estate and mental health in ...

R. Webb moved to Tennessee, settling in Culleoka. When Vanderbilt University was through a million dollar gift from “Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt, the wealthiest man in the country, at the time, ...

Vanderbilt Commodores. After a lackluster 2025 class where the focus was to bring in transfers instead of high school pr ...

It has been over a decade since the Southeastern Conference has seen the Vanderbilt Commodores finish with a record above ...

PENDING: Access the advance paper when available. Speaker: Joni Hersch (Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Economics) Abstract: There is substantial evidence of discriminatory treatment of ...