For 10 points, name this American nicknamed "Commodore", a wealthy transportation magnate of the nineteenth century.
The so called Erie War was a successful scheme led by Daniel Drew which caused this man to lose millions of dollars. In his early career he was the captain of a steamboat business carrying people across the Hudson River; that business competed with a monopoly granted to Robert Livingston and Robert Fulton and led to the Supreme Court case Gibbons. v. Ogden. He transported people across the Isthmus of (*) Panama during the California gold rush and later in his life he feuded with James Fisk and Jay Gould over competing railways. For 10 points, name this American nicknamed "Commodore", a wealthy transportation magnate of the nineteenth century.
The so called Erie War was a successful scheme led by Daniel Drew which caused this man to lose millions of dollars.
Cornelius {Vanderbilt}