Adam E. Cornelius

[1][2][3] At age 20, Cornelius went to work for a small shipbroking and shipping chartering business owned by John J. Boland in Buffalo, New York.

[1] Cornelius' position was an entry-level job, earning just $6 a week, but, by 1904, he had proven his worth and Boland invited him to enter into a partnership with his firm.

Boland and Cornelius ran the American Steamship Company successfully until the Great Depression, at which point Cornelius came up with the idea of converting the company's fleet to self-unloaders.

[4] Four vessels owned by the American Steamship Company have been named the Adam E. Cornelius in his honor, in 1908, 1948, 1959, and 1973.

This article about an American businessperson born in the 1880s is a stub.

Boland and Cornelius first ship, the SS Yale , shown underway prior to World War I , served as USS Yale (ID-1672), 1918–1920 and as USS Greyhound (IX-106), 1943–1944.