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Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, 1884-1970, great-grandson of shipping and railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt. He was a railroad executive, America’s Cup yachtsman with three Cup defenses, commodore of the New York Yacht Club, and originator of contract bridge. The third child and second son of William Kissam Vanderbilt and Alva Erskine Smith ...
When Cornelius Vanderbilt II was born on 27 November 1843, in New Dorp, Richmond, New York, United States, his father, William Henry Vanderbilt I, was 22 and his mother, Maria Louisa Kissam, was 22. He married Alice Claypoole Gwynne on 7 February 1867, in Staten Island, New York City, New York, United States.
10 de jun. de 2018 · Chateau Vanderbilt. He was born at New Dorp, Staten Island. Whereas his elder brother, Cornelius II, was put to work at sixteen, Willy enjoyed an extended education in Geneva, Switzerland. On returning to New York aged nineteen (1868), he started his career with the Hudson River Railroad. By 1877, he was Vice-President of the New York Central ...
In 1878, Alva and William Kissam Vanderbilt began building a lavish, wooden 110-room home known as Idle Hour, on a 900-acre (3.6 km 2) estate on the Connetquot River. The building, initially completed in 1882, was designed by Richard Morris Hunt of Hunt & Hunt (an American who studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris), [a] continuously ...
23 de sept. de 2018 · Born in 1878, William Kissam Vanderbilt II was the great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the fabled Commodore, who had first built the family's staggering fortune through steamship and railroad lines. Willie K. did his turn as a rail executive, too, serving for a time as president of the New York Central. He married a woman whose father had ...
27 de oct. de 2023 · Sweet, meek Gladys Russell (Taissa Farmiga) is a sure stand-in for Consuelo Vanderbilt, the daughter of William Kissam and Alva Vanderbilt.
5 de jul. de 1970 · He was born July 6, 1884 in Oakdale L. I., the youngest of three children of William Kissam Vanderbilt. His father died in 1920, leaving an estate appraised three years later at $54,530,966.
