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(21 August 1869 - 04 January 1877) (his death)
Following his wife Sophia's death in 1868, Vanderbilt went to Canada where, on August 21, 1869, in London, Ontario, he married a cousin from Mobile, Alabama named Frank Armstrong Crawford (1839—1885). Frank was 45 years younger than her husband. Her cousin's husband, Holland Nimmons McTyeire, convinced Vanderbilt to endow what would become Vanderbilt University, named in his honor. Vanderbilt gave $1 million, the largest charitable gift in American history to that date. He also bought a church for $50,000 for his second wife's congregation, the Church of the Strangers. He also donated to churches around New York, including a gift to the Moravian Church on Staten Island of 8½ acres (34,000 m2) for a cemetery in which he was later buried.
Cornelius Vanderbilt died on January 4, 1877.
