Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1877 — The Wealth of William H. Vanderbilt. [ARTICLE]

The Wealth of William H. Vanderbilt.

The fortune of Mr. Vanderbilt is generally estimated at $100,000,000. Men who ought to be well acquainted with his affairs say that he could at any time realize $75,000,000 under the hammer. A pleasant feature of his already very pleasant position is that by looking at the stock indicator he can figure out how much he is worth at any moment of the day with greater precision than most men can, though they have much less to figure out— Appleton's Railway Guide.