Before there was a Bezos, a Musk, or a Walton, there was Cornelius Vanderbilt—a man so wealthy, so powerful, and so obsessed ...

At their peak, the Vanderbilts were akin to royalty in the United States. Today, their properties and legacy buildings in New ...

"I grew up not really knowing much about the Vanderbilts," Anderson Cooper tells PEOPLE Emily Strohm is a Senior Editor at PEOPLE. She has been at PEOPLE for 11 years and has written nearly 40 ...

None of them had a million dollars and they were all poor. How did the Vanderbilts lose their wealth? From 1897 until his death in 1899, Cornelius Vanderbilt II managed railroads. During the third ...

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