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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vanderbilt, Cornelius 1843-1899 (search)
ten Island, N. Y., Nov. 27, 1843; eldest son of William Henry Vanderbilt; received an academic education and became a clerk in the Shoe and Leather Bank, and later in the banking firm of Kissam Brothers; began his study of finance and railroad management in 1865, and became treasurer of the Harlem Railroad in 1867. When his father died, on Dec. 8, 1885, he became head of the Vanderbilt family and managed the Vanderbilt system of railroads till 1895. He was stricken with paralysis in July, 1896, and never entirely recovered. He made numerous gifts to education and charity, including $850,000 to the Church of St. Bartholomew; $1,500,000 to Yale University, part of which was given to erect Vanderbilt Hall, a dormitory built as a memorial to his son William H., who died there while a student; $100,000 to the Church of St. John the Divine; $50,000 to St. Luke's Hospital; and a like sum to the Episcopal Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society. He died in New York City, Sept. 12, 1899.
The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
ing this rushed in, and taking hold of an officer who was near, struck him with paving stones, iron bars, and everything else within their reach. The poor fellow ran across the street, pursued by the mob, when a ball was fired at him, striking him in the back of the head. The man finally got into a brick yard, where a number of females beset him and abused him, until he dropped down exhausted, and could only be rescued by the united efforts of several gentlemen, who took him to St. Luke's Hospital. The greatest excitement prevailed at this time, and the most fierce of all were the women, who, with crowbars, clubs, shovels, and other implements of destruction, were running about calling on the men to die at home. Some person here advised the crowds to go round Lexington avenue and look for the police there. But only a few went up, who, on the corner of 42d street and Lexington avenue, came across a police officer, whose head was beaten to a jelly, but he got off and escap
The Daily Dispatch: May 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
Commodore William David Porter, United States Navy, died Tuesday, at St. Luke's Hospital, in New York, after a painful and lingering illness of four months duration. About three week age he became an inmate of this hospital. Henry Ward Beecher has bought a $330 pair of Morgan horses at South Royalton, Vt.