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Frank Armstrong Crawford-Vanderbilt (January 18, 1839 – May 4, 1885) was an American socialite and philanthropist. During the American Civil War, she was a strong supporter of the Confederate States of America. After the war, she lived in New York City and married multi-millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt.
- Philanthropist
- Vanderbilt Family Mausoleum, New York, U.S.
- Frank Armstrong Crawford, January 18, 1839, Mobile, Alabama, U.S.
11 de abr. de 2011 · On Aug. 21, 1869, Vanderbilt married the oddly named Frank Armstrong Crawford. He was 75; she was 32, and his second wife. She was also from Mobile, Ala., and an unrepentant Confederate.
[Frank Armstrong Crawford Vanderbilt] | Strengthening Ties: The Hidden Individuals behind Vanderbilt’s Founding. Creator Louis Alman, New York, NY. Date 1870. Type Photograph. Source John James Tigert IV Collection, Vanderbilt University Special Collections.
On March 17, 1873, railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt moved to “strengthen the ties” between the North and the war-torn South by endowing the Central University of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. While Bishop Holland McTyeire is credited with inspiring Vanderbilt’s gift, a network of hidden individuals helped actualize this dream.
20 de jun. de 2023 · Edited by Seth Robertson. Illustrations by Chris Wormell. In March 1873, Cornelius Vanderbilt and his wife, Frank Armstrong Crawford Vanderbilt, gave a charitable gift that was groundbreaking in ...
- Seth Robertson
Frank Armstrong Crawford Vanderbilt. In the years following the Civil War, Holland Nimmons McTyeire, a Nashville-based bishop within the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, led a movement to establish “an institution of learning of the highest order.”
The scrapbooks were a gift of their maker, Frank Armstrong Crawford Vanderbilt, who used the books to document her husband’s life. Mrs. Vanderbilt’s remarkable gift shows her husband, Cornelius Vanderbilt, in many ways: as a businessman, as a family man, and as a lover of horse racing.
