Cornelius Eldert (1850 – January 24, 1930) was an American businessman and philanthropist who served as president of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company.
Eldert was born in 1850 in Brooklyn, New York and was a descendant of Dutch immigrants to New Amsterdam.
[6] In his youth Eldert played baseball for the Crescent Base Ball Club of Jamaica, New York,[7] and, in 1861, he had two of his fingers cut off by a straw cutter.
[12] Together, they lived at 557 First Street in Brooklyn and were the parents of:[8] A prominent philanthropist and "generous supporter of diocesan and community charities,"[17] he was president of the Life Saving Benevolent Society from 1919 to 1930 and vice president of the Brooklyn Association for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor.
[8] After a funeral at St. Luke's Episcopal Church on Clinton Avenue in Brooklyn (where he had been a vestryman and warden), he was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery.