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More important, Vanderbilt assisted Gibbons in a battle against a legal monopoly on steamboats in New York waters that had been granted to the patrician Livingston family.

Cornelius Vanderbilt ordered the construction of new infrastructure, including the original Grand Central Depot (then the largest railroad station in the United States), a massive freight depot at ...

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Twice-married Cher has been on an emotional roller coaster with son Elijah Blue Allman, her only child with the late Gregg Allman. Find out more about the iconic singer's unique family tree.

Bettmann/Getty Images In 1883, Alva Vanderbilt, daughter-in-law of Cornelius Vanderbilt, threw a masked ball which cost about $250,000, or about $8 million today.

As soon as Robert Prevost was elevated to pope in May, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the team he works with for PBS's Finding Your Roots began digging into the pope's family history.

She eventually accepted the presence of the Vanderbilt family and several other industrialist families—whom she had previously excluded—because their wealth was greater than hers.