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William K. Vanderbilt. Two men named William Kissam Vanderbilt were prominent members of the Vanderbilt family, descendants of Cornelius Vanderbilt. William K. Vanderbilt was the son of William Henry Vanderbilt and a grandson of "Commodore" Vanderbilt. He took an interest in managing the family`s railroad until middle age, and spent his later ...
The second son of William Henry Vanderbilt, from whom he inherited $60 million, he was for a time active in the management of the family railroads, though not much after 1903. His sons William Kissam Vanderbilt II and Harold Stirling Vanderbilt were the last to be active in the railroads, the latter losing a proxy battle for the New York ...
William Vanderbilt nait à New Brunswick, au New Jersey [1] le 8 mai 1821. En 1841 il épouse Maria Louisa Kissam (1821–1896), fille d'un ministre presbytérien. En 1877, il hérite de son père, le « Commodore » Cornelius Vanderbilt, magnat des chemins de fer, environ 100 millions de dollars.
6 de ago. de 2013 · The Commodore’s grandson, William Kissam Vanderbilt, married the determined, pugilistic and socially ambitious Alva Erksine Smith from Mobile, Alabama (but schooled in Paris). Alva made it her mission to bring the Vanderbilts into what she thought was their proper place in society, and onto the list of the 400.
In other words during his life the Vanderbilt family was still in charge of the railroad system developed by the Commodore and his son William Henry Vanderbilt. Following his death the responsibility for the management of the New York Central Railroad system was shifted to Cornelius Vanderbilt II’s younger brother, William Kissam Vanderbilt [1849-1920] who outlived his older brother by 21 years.
William Kissam Vanderbilt remarried in 1903 to Anne Harriman Sands Rutherford . They remained married until his death in 1920. Anne had four children from two previous marriages, but no children from her marriage with William Kissam Vanderbilt. William Kissam Vanderbilt was a co-owner of the yacht "Defender" which won the 1895 America's Cup.
Cornelius Vanderbilt 1843-1899 Married in 1867, Staten Island, Kings Co., NY, to Alice Claypoole Gwynne 1845-1934. Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt 1845-1924 Married February 18, 1868, Manhattan, New York, NY, to Elliott Fitch Shepard, Col. 1833-1893. William Kissam Vanderbilt 1849-1920 With Anne Harriman Rutherford Sands.
