Elias Cornelius Benedict nicknamed Commodore (January 24, 1834 – November 22, 1920) was a New York City banker and yachtsman. He specialized in the gas and rubber industries. He was president of the Commercial Acetylene Gas Company and of the Marine Engine Company.[1][2][3] The Benedict Fjord in Greenland was named after him by Robert Peary.
^"E. C. Benedict Dies in his 87th Year. Was Sixty-four Years in Wall St. and One of the World's Leading Yachtsmen. Loved Long Cruises in Strange Waters. Once Shipwrecked. Was Cleveland's Friend". The New York Times. November 24, 1920. Retrieved 2009-02-03. E.C. Benedict, banker and yachtsman, died last night in his eighty-seventh year at his home, Indian Harbor, Greenwich, Conn. Mr. Benedict had been ill for more than a year, and his end came quietly from a complication of diseases incident to old age, shortly before 9 o'clock.
^"Commodore Benedict". The New York Times. November 25, 1920. Great artist in the difficult art of viability, Elias Cornelius Benedict had nearly eighty-seven years of fortunate life in which there can have been few days of dullness. ...
^America's successful men of affairs. New York Tribune. 1895. banker and stock broker, born Jan. 24, 1834, is a son of the Rev. Henry Benedict. His native place is Somers in Westchester county, N. Y. The family was planted in America by Thomas Benedict, an immigrant from Nottinghamshire, England, in 1638. At the age of sixteen, Elias, without means and with only a fair education, began to master the mysteries of stock broker age, as clerk in the employ of Corning & Co., in New York city. In 1857 he opened an office of his own on Wall street, displaying the sign of Benedict & Co., and for nearly forty years has been one of the most active, ingenious and indefatigable operators in the whirlpool of this centre of speculation. ...
and 24 Related for: Elias Cornelius Benedict information
the inauguration living on 51st Street next door to their friend EliasCorneliusBenedict and then in Lakewood, New Jersey.: 255 The Clevelands returned...
Washington Everett Connor. On sale to EliasCorneliusBenedict the yacht's name was changed to Oneida (1887), then when Benedict bought a new yacht to be named...
five ships in the U.S. Navy Two civilian steam yachts owned by EliasCorneliusBenedict, each associated with unique historical incidents: USS Adelante...
Harbour 1895 Neoclassical Carrere & Hastings Greenwich Built for EliasCorneliusBenedict, was demolished in 1938. Mailands 1906 French Renaissance and Colonial...
Historic Places in 1974. William L. Swan William A.W. Stewart EliasCorneliusBenedict (1834–1920) Arthur Curtiss James William K. Vanderbilt Jr. Harold...
following a secret surgery to remove a tumor aboard his friend EliasCorneliusBenedict's yacht Utowana as it sailed from New York City to Gray Gables....
remove a cancerous jaw tumor on Grover Cleveland in 1893 aboard EliasCorneliusBenedict's yacht Oneida. Keen and four assisting doctors made their way to...
Glee Club The Mendelssohn Glee Club at the estate of Commodore EliasCorneliusBenedict in Greenwich, Connecticut, 1897 Background information Origin New...
the National Sailing Hall of Fame. Thomas Watson Jr. Dick Nye EliasCorneliusBenedict George Lauder (Scottish industrialist) Edward J. Noble Clifford...
President Grover Cleveland's secret cancer surgery aboard his friend EliasCorneliusBenedict's yacht Utowana, which the administration denied. Edwards graduated...
Holy Sepulchre and struck Irenaios' name from the diptychs. Metropolitan Cornelius of Petra was chosen to serve as locum tenens pending the election of a...
p. 288. ISBN 0-415-23046-2 Brustein, p. 158 Benedict, p. 457 Final Report, pp. 28–29 Codreanu, Corneliu "The Resurrection of the Race" pp. 221–222 from...
Arendse Nicolaas Cornelius Pascoe Jan Andries Palm Francois Reichert Estelle Davies Ignatius Michael Bredenkamp Francios Eugene Cornelius Wilhelm Lourens...
Motion pictures 7013 Hollywood Boulevard (1991-06-12)June 12, 1991 Don Cornelius Television 7080 Hollywood Boulevard (1997-02-27)February 27, 1997 Don...
Democratic 24th January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2011 Utica Lost re-election. Benedict Arnold Anti-Jacksonian 16th March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1831 Amsterdam ? John...
Solomon "Sol" Hasbrouck William Cornelius Hasbrouck was born August 23, 1800, in Shawangunk, New York, the son of Cornelius Benjamin (1769–1841) and Jane...
Bible: From Ibn Rabban to Ibn Hazm. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-10034-3. Aherne, Cornelius (1908). "Epistle to the Colossians" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic...
French) (#14). ISSN 1718-5556. Benedict Menni (1841–1914) Our Founder: Fr. Benedict Menni Benedict XVI on Saint Benedict of Norcia St. Benezet — Catholic...
of a steady rise of the faith in the West. In 530, Saint Benedict wrote his Rule of St Benedict as a practical guide for monastic community life. Its message...
the Vatican Library, and in 1914 was promoted to Prefect. In 1918, Pope Benedict XV (1914–1922) appointed Ratti unusually to what was in effect a diplomatic...
Anthimus VI Bartholomew Neophytus IV Bartholomew Gabriel II Benedict Athanasius III Benedict Athanasius III Gregorius III Dionysius II Gregory IV Anthimus...
Church have listed her as a saint for centuries. On 10 May 2012, Pope Benedict XVI extended the liturgical cult of Hildegard to the entire Catholic Church...
). The Harp (in German). Vol. 8–9. Gorgias. pp. 397–430. Vadakkekara, Benedict (2007). Origin of Christianity in India : a historiographical critique...
Global Information
