Cornelius Vanderbilt Papers 1776-1953 1901-1928

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Cornelius Vanderbilt Papers 1776-1953 1901-1928

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1181

Chiefly correspondence, memoranda, a notebook, and memorabilia relating to Vanderbilt's service as an officer in the U.S. Engineers during World War I. Also included are technical notebooks on mathematics, chemistry, and engineering (1897-1926). Of particular note are two illustrated manuscript volumes: one by Joseph Lyddell Peyton outlining a course of instruction for British naval officers, and the second by John Burnell showing the headlands of various coastlines in Europe and Africa. Also in the papers are checkbooks, guestbooks, a nurse's record of Vanderbilt's case of typhoid fever (1902-1903), and inventories of the Vanderbilt library in New York City, and of his yacht.

3 linear feet (6 boxes)

eng,

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1873-1942

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Cornelius Vanderbilt III (b. September 5, 1873, New York City, NY-d. March 1, 1942, Miami Beach, FL). Educated at Yale (AB 1895, PhB 1898, ME 1899). Vanderbilt worked for Illinois Central Railroad. In 1901, he was made a Second Lieutenant in the Twelfth Infantry Regiment of the New York National Guard and remained a member of the military for 33 years. Fought in the border wars with Mexico in 1916, and in World War I served overseas as commander of the 102nd Engineers. Rising through the ranks t...