Business (27-May-1794 — 4-Jan-1877)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Wayne Andrews. The Vanderbilt Legend: The Story of the Vanderbilt Family, 1794-1940. Harcourt, Brace and Company. 1941. 454pp.

Edwin Palmer Hoyt. Commodore Vanderbilt. Reilly & Lee Co.. 1962. 166pp.

Edward J. Renehan, Jr.. Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. New York: Basic Books. 2007. 364pp.

T. J. Stiles. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2009. 719pp.

AUTHORITIES

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Wikipedia [link]

4. Library of Congress Name Authority [link]

5. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.1144)

6. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1494)

7. Webster's American Biographies (p.1069)

8. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.752)

9. Movers & Shakers: The 100 Most Influential Figures in Modern Business (pp.331-33)

10. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.494)

11. Concise Biographical Dictionary of Famous Men and Women (p.697)

12. Concise Dictionary of American Biography (p.1102)

13. Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th Edition (vol.27, pp.885-86)

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