page_title: Elias Cornelius Benedict
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Elias Cornelius Benedict / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Indian Harbor, built by “Commodore” E.C. Benedict, 1895, on an-80 acre waterfront peninsula. The home and outbuildings were designed by Carrere &amp; Hastings , who collaborated with renowned Olmstead, Olmstead &amp; Eliot on the landscape. The home, although modified, still stands today.
context_page_description: Elias Cornelius Benedict was a prominent 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.
  The Benedict Fjord in Greenland was named after him by Robert Peary.
context_section_description: At fifteen in 1849, he joined the banking house of Corning & Co., New York. In 1857 he opened his own stockbroker's 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 the architects Carrère and Hastings to build an estate on the peninsula at Indian Harbor in Greenwich, Connecticut.
  In later life Benedict was Commodore of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club.
caption: 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.
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