Editing Cornelius Vanderbilt (section)

==Later years and philanthropy==
[[File:Cornelius Vanderbilt by Howell & Meyer.jpg|thumb|upright|Vanderbilt in his final years.]]
Following his wife Sophia's death in 1868, Vanderbilt went to Canada. On August 21, 1869, in [[London, Ontario]],<ref>{{cite magazine| title=The Commodore's Strange Gift| first=Michael| last=McGerr|magazine=Vanderbilt Magazine| date=Summer 2006| pages=46–53, 86| url=http://www.vanderbilt.edu/magazines/vanderbilt-magazine/archives/VMagsm06/features/strangeGift.pdf| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091227055731/http://www.vanderbilt.edu/magazines/vanderbilt-magazine/archives/VMagsm06/features/strangeGift.pdf| archive-date=December 27, 2009}}</ref> he married a cousin from [[Mobile, Alabama]], with the name — unusual for a woman — of [[Frank Armstrong Crawford Vanderbilt|Frank Armstrong Crawford]].<ref name="Knight">{{cite book| last=Knight| first=Lucian Lamar| title=Reminiscences of Famous Georgians: Embracing Episodes and Incidents in the Lives of the Great Men of the State, Volume 2| publisher=Franklin-Turner| year=1908| location=New York| page=123| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IdgDAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Frank+Armstrong+Crawford%22&pg=PA123| via=Google Books| access-date=November 5, 2020| archive-date=April 14, 2021| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414101002/https://books.google.com/books?id=IdgDAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Frank+Armstrong+Crawford%22&pg=PA123| url-status=live}}</ref>
Vanderbilt's second wife convinced him to give {{Nowrap|$1 million}} (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|1,000,000|1869}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars {{inflation-fn|US}}), the largest charitable gift in American history to that date, to Bishop [[Holland Nimmons McTyeire]], the husband of her cousin, Amelia Townsend, to found [[Vanderbilt University]] in Nashville, Tennessee, named in his honor. He also paid $50,000 for a church for his second wife's congregation, the Church of the Strangers. In addition, he donated to churches around New York, including a gift to the [[Moravian Church]] on Staten Island of {{convert|8+1/2|acre|ha|abbr=off|sigfig=1}} for a cemetery (the [[Moravian Cemetery]]). He chose to be buried there.