Elias Cornelius Benedict
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Elias Cornelius Benedict, nicknamed Commodore was an American banker and yachtsman from New York City. He specialized in the gas and rubber industries. He was president of the Commercial Acetylene Gas
E.C. Benedict, c. 1913 (aboard Oneida)
Indian Harbor, built by “Commodore” E.C. Benedict, 1895, on an-80 acre waterfront peninsula. The home and outbuildings were designed by Carrere & Hastings, who collaborated with renowned Olmstead, Olmstead & Eliot on the landscape. The home, although modified, still stands today.
EC Benedict Yacht Oneida leading the way and yacht sapphire following.
Grover Cleveland
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Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, serving from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He was the first Democrat elected president after the American Civil War
Elias Cornelius Benedict
…office on Wall Street. During the United States Civil War he and his brother organized the Gold Exchange Bank. Benedict was close with President Grover Cleveland, and it was on Benedict's yacht, the Oneida, that Cleveland had his secret surgery to remove a cancerous growth from his jaw in 1893. Benedict commissioned…
Cleveland in 1892
Caldwell Presbyterian parsonage, birthplace of Grover Cleveland in Caldwell, New Jersey
Early and undated photograph of Cleveland
A statue of Grover Cleveland outside City Hall in Buffalo, New York