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ON JULY 17, 1862, PRESIDENT LINCOLN sent a formal message to Congress. “I have inadvertently omitted so long to inform you that in March last Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New York, gratuitously presented to the United States the ocean steamer ‘Vanderbilt,’ by many esteemed the finest merchant ship in the world,” he wrote.
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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