Elias Cornelius Benedict | |
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.jpg) E.C. Benedict, c. 1913 (aboard Oneida) | |
| Born | Elias Cornelius Benedict January 24, 1834 Somers, New York, U.S. |
| Died | November 22, 1920 (aged 86) Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Banker, yachtsman |
| Spouse |
Sarah Hart
(m. 1859; died 1901) |
| Children | 4 |
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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. ...