If you sold all of Cornelius Vanderbilt's assets at the time of his death, you would take out 1/20 of all dollars in circulation... That's insane. Let's take a look at 2 stories from his childhood to see if we can uncover some of the mystery of his rise...
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Vanderbilt was riding down the streets of New York in a wagon. He was in charge of getting three wagons onto a ferry to meet his father. He was 11 years old.
Young Vanderbilt's father was involved in shipping back in 1805. A ship had run ashore on a sandbar and his father was hired to collect the stranded cargo and transport it across the river.