Home Names Maps Chapters Find a name

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Person · Profile checked · 14 detected mentions

Railroad magnate whose lines figured in oil transportation and rebate negotiations.

Also appears as: Commodore Vanderbilt · Cornelius Vanderbilt · Cornelius Vanderbilt, Sr.

Documented relationships

No manually checked relationship is attached to this name.

In the book

Ch. 6, ¶4 Ch. 6, ¶50 Ch. 6, ¶59 Ch. 8, ¶18 Ch. 8, ¶25 Ch. 9, ¶21 Ch. 9, ¶40 Ch. 9, ¶43 Ch. 13, ¶1 Ch. 13, ¶51 Ch. 16, ¶24 Ch. 16, ¶25

All 13 source references

Shared passages

A shared paragraph is a reading connection, not proof of a historical relationship. Entries link to the first shared source paragraph.

John D. Rockefeller, Sr. · 10 shared paragraphs · Ch. 6, ¶50

Cleveland · 7 shared paragraphs · Ch. 6, ¶50

Standard Oil · 7 shared paragraphs · Ch. 8, ¶18

Henry M. Flagler · 4 shared paragraphs · Ch. 6, ¶50

New York Central · 3 shared paragraphs · Ch. 6, ¶50

New York · 3 shared paragraphs · Ch. 6, ¶50

Pittsburgh · 3 shared paragraphs · Ch. 6, ¶50

Philadelphia · 3 shared paragraphs · Ch. 6, ¶50

Lake Shore · 3 shared paragraphs · Ch. 6, ¶50

Laura Spelman Rockefeller · 3 shared paragraphs · Ch. 6, ¶59

Jay Gould · 2 shared paragraphs · Ch. 6, ¶4

Pennsylvania Railroad · 2 shared paragraphs · Ch. 6, ¶50

All 75 shared-passage connections

Automatic suggestions

Unverified verb connections; read the source before interpreting them as facts.

Cornelius Vanderbilt · invest · Standard Oil · Ch. 8, ¶18

Print index

Vanderbilt, Cornelius (Commodore) — 98,

Back to names · Top of this page

Home Names Maps Chapters Find a name

Source: Ron Chernow, Titan. Names and relationships retain the full atlas’s extraction limits. Map points are references; historical sites and regions can be approximate. Open the full interactive atlas.