1.   Confident in the power of the steamboat, city decision-makers spurned the proposal of railroad tycoon Jay Gould to lay tracks in Jefferson and their fate was sealed.

2.   He was a great-great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, the railroad tycoon and founder of the family dynasty.

3.   In fact, the railroad tycoon once owned the site jointly with city founders William Brickell and Julia Tuttle.

4.   It belonged to a railroad tycoon, Edward Crowninshield Hammond, who routinely had the angry neophyte playwright chased off his property.

5.   One hundred and forty six years ago New York railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt vowed to build a canal across Nicaragua.

6.   One of the most beautiful was Maisie Manwaring Plant, the daughter-in-law of Henry Plant, the railroad tycoon who built the hotel.

7.   Railroad tycoon.

8.   That year the granddaughter of the American railroad tycoon Jay Gould was to be married to a French count.

9.   The following year, Mortimer married Kathleen Harriman, daughter of W. Averell Harriman and the granddaughter of E.H. Harriman, the railroad tycoon.

10.   The offices, it turned out, had been the home of Edith Shepard Fabbri, the granddaughter of the railroad tycoon William H. Vanderbilt.