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“The public be damned. I am working for my stockholders.”

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William Henry Vanderbilt

William Henry Vanderbilt, born on May 8, 1821, and died on December 8, 1885, was a prominent figure in the 19th-century American railroad industry, a key member of the Vanderbilt family. more

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