"The public be damned.". As a result of Cornelius Vanderbilt's death, the majority of his fortune worth $95,000,000 was left to his son Willard. Approximately $2 is the current value of this fortune.

Cornelius Vanderbilt was an industrialist, shipping and railroad magnate, and philanthropist from the United States. He is widely regarded as a self-made multi-millionaire who became one of the ...