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Biographical note

The Vanderbilt Family:

The original Breakers was purchased in 1885 by Cornelius Vanderbilt II, as a summer home for his family.

Cornelius II was the grandson of the great Commodore Vanderbilt and the son of William Henry Vanderbilt. After working upwards from the position of bank messenger and clerk, he became the treasurer and then the head of the Harlem Railroad.

He then succeeded his father and grandfather as the Chairman of the Board of the New York Central Railroad. Cornelius was married to Alice Claypoole Gwynne in 1867, and by all accounts it was a good match.

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The couple had seven children together. Their firstborn, Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt, died at the age of five from a childhood illness, while the eldest son, William Henry Vanderbilt II died of typhoid fever while attending Yale University.

Of the surviving children, Cornelius “Neily” Vanderbilt III became the eldest.

He was a graduate of Yale University and the Sh