During the Gilded Age, the mass accumulation of money by families like the Vanderbilts changed the economic, social, and physical landscape of the United States. The Vanderbilt family's wealth ...
Jasmine Suarez is a senior editor at Fortune Recommends, where she was hired to build and launch the department in 2022. Before joining Fortune, she was a senior editor at Business Insider ...
The Vanderbilts established their mass fortune prior to the Civil War, starting with Frederick's grandfather Cornelius. The patriarch built their family fortune on steamboating and investing in ...
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt made his fortune in the steamship industry and, later, in the New York Central Railroad in the late 19th Century. In 1885, Commodore's grandson, Cornelius ...
Jasmine Suarez is a senior editor at Fortune Recommends, where she was hired to build and launch the department in 2022. Before joining Fortune, she was a senior editor at Business Insider ...