He sold them a naval war ship for around a million dollars (Vanderbilt Magazine, 2011). He claimed that this ship could not be destroyed if operated properly (Vanderbilt Magazine, 2011). After the Civil War ended, he switched to railroads (H.2010). The North was shipping a lot of goods to many places (H.2010). He saw that there was a very large opportunity to build a railroad empire (H.2010). The Civil War helped him and his businesses economically.
Cornelius Vanderbilt did not donate a lot of his money like most of the large, wealthy businessmen of the time (H.2010). He donated a small amount of his money to state a university in Tennessee (H.2010). Vanderbilt died on January 4, 1877 (H.2010). He was buried in the Moravian Cemetery in New Dorp, Staten Island (H.2010). He left around 100 million dollars to his son William (H.2010).
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His father was a traveling salesman (H., 2010). He started raising money when he was just a little kid (H., 2010). He would do anything the neighbors needed just for some extra money (H., 2010). Working hard and earing money came very naturally to him. He moved to Cleveland, Ohio and briefly studied in high school (H., 2010). When he was 16 he got a job working as an office clerk (H., 2010). This was the very early start to his business career. Rockefeller and a coworker left to open their own company in 1859 (H., 2010). In 1863 Rockefeller and some other investors opened an oil refinery. In 1864 he got married and they had five children (H.,