Vanderbilt in a Sentence
  • In the neighbourhood is a model village, with an elementary school, an industrial school for whites, a hospital and a church, maintained by Mr Vanderbilt.
  • He became second vice-president of the New York Central & Hudson river in 1869 and was its president in 1885-1898, and in 1898 was made chairman of the board of directors of the Vanderbilt system.
  • Cornelius Vanderbilt was for several years the proprietor of the Bellona Hotel of New Brunswick, now a tenement house.
  • In the western part of the city is Vanderbilt University.
  • Vanderbilt and Cornelius Vanderbilt, gave to the university about $820,000.
  • However, they perfectly complemented the queenly role that Alva envisaged for herself, and also the Vanderbilt servants in livery.
  • The 70-room mansion, built between 1893 and 1895, was once the summer home of industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt II.
  • Mr. Lorillard sold the property to Vanderbilt, who, with the help of architect Richard Morris Hunt, built the current mansion for the astronomical sum of $7 million.
  • The high-maintenance property was leased to the Preservation Society of Rhode Island in 1948 by Vanderbilt's youngest child for $1 per year, with the provision that the family could live on the third floor, if desired.
  • Descendents of Mr. Vanderbilt still summer at the mansion, hidden above the flocks of visitors.
  • Most of the furniture at the estate is original and still belongs to the Vanderbilt family.
  • He is the son of writer Wyatt Emory Cooper and designer and heiress Gloria Vanderbilt.
  • He is close with Vanderbilt, and in 2007, interviewed her about Mother's Day.
  • Born in 1967, Anderson Cooper enjoyed the privileged life of being the son of heiress Gloria Vanderbilt and writer Wyatt Emory Cooper.
  • For conservative environments, try a no-frills tote like Vanderbilt; it features plenty of spacious pockets to hold small items with ease, and wears well with a professional wardrobe.
  • They disbanded their groups when they went their separate ways for college - Saliers to Tulane and Ray to Vanderbilt.
  • Vanderbilt, its 125,000 acres constituting what is probably the finest country place in the United States.
  • The University block (an office building owned by Syracuse University), the Union Building, the Onondaga county savings bank and the Syracuse savings bank are among the most notable business structures; and the Onondaga, the Vanderbilt House and the Yates and St Cloud hotels are the principal hotels.
  • Vanderbilt in 1866 became attorney for the New York & Harlem railway, in 1869 was appointed attorney of the newly consolidated New York Central & Hudson river railway, of which he soon became a director, and in 1875 was made general counsel for the entire Vanderbilt system of railways.
  • Cooper's father died during open heart surgery in 1978, and about 10 years later, his older brother, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper, committed suicide by jumping from the 14th-floor of his mother's New York City penthouse apartment.