Van Horne
SIR WILLIAM COR- NELIUS, a Canadian railroad official; born in Joliet, Ill., Feb. 3, 1843; began his career as an office boy in a railroad VANILLA station; was rapidly promoted till he was made general superintendent of the St.
Louis, Kansas City and Northern railway.in 1872. Later he successively held the same post on the Southern Minnesota, the Chicago and Alton, and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroads. In 1880 he was made general manager, and in 1888, president of the Canadian Pacific railway. He was created an honorary K. C. M. G. by Queen Victoria in May, 1894, in recognition of his eminent public services. He died in 1915. a VANILLA,