Definition of Commodore Vanderbilt

1. Noun. United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877).


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Literary usage of Commodore Vanderbilt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Famous Americans of Recent Times by James Parton (1867)
"Commodore Vanderbilt.« E Staten Island ferry, ... a nearer * This narrative of the business-life of Commodore Vanderbilt was written immediately after I had ..."

2. Life of Thurlow Weed Including His Autobiography and a Memoir by Thurlow Weed, Harriet A. Weed, Thurlow Weed Barnes (1884)
"His CALL ON Commodore Vanderbilt. — LETTERS TO MR. WEED. — JOSEPH PARKES. — THE " JUNIUS " QUESTION. — As APT ANECDOTE. — SIR CURTIS LAMPSON. ..."

3. Society As I Have Found It by Ward MacAllister (1890)
"... The value of a pleasant Manner •—• How a Gentleman should dress — / might have made a Fortune — Commodore Vanderbilt gives me a straight " Tip. ..."

4. Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York by Abram Child Dayton (1897)
"... Hotel—Marine Telegraph—Downing's a political rendezvous—Harlem Railroad and the " great tunnel "—Commodore Vanderbilt—George Law—Jacob Barker—Manhattan ..."

5. Higher Education in Tennessee by Lucius Salisbury Merriam (1893)
"This account of the way in which Commodore Vanderbilt came to endow Central University is illuminated and supplemented by Mr. John T. ..."

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