Gibbons was involved in a bitter struggle with a company that had been founded by steamboat-pioneer Robert Fulton and others, which held a monopoly from New York State over steamboat services in the New York City area. Specifically, the steamboat owner and entrepreneur Thomas Gibbons approached him with an offer to work as captain of a steamboat operating between New Jersey and New York. The nickname stuck with him for the rest of his life.Īfter marrying in 1813, at the age of 19-he would eventually sire 13 children-Vanderbilt began expanding his business, entering into various arrangements to purchase new ships, including a schooner that he purchased from his brother-in-law.Īs his business affairs flourished and his reputation grew, Vanderbilt began to be approach by others with business opportunities. It was at this time that he received the ironic moniker “The Commodore,” bestowed upon him by the other ferry captains in recognition of his youthful energy and high spirits. Vanderbilt’s Careerīy age 16, Cornelius had opened his own ferry service, carrying freight and passengers back and forth between and Manhattan and Staten Island. The young Cornelius worked on his father’s ferry from an early age, dropping out of school at the age of 11. In 1650, he emigrated to New Amsterdam (New York City) as an indentured servant.Ĭornelius’s father ran a ferryboat in New York Harbor. Vanderbilt’s great-great-great grandfather was born in the seventeenth century in the village of De Bilt in the province of Utrecht in the Netherlands. Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877) was born on Staten Island in New York City.
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