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  Sagamore.org - History of the Sagamore
Alfred, Margaret and their two young sons, Alfred and George, often accompanied by a large contingent of family and friends, would escape the heat of New York and Newport and travel to Camp Sagamore for hunting and fishing.
Alfred Vanderbilt was the most prominent victim of the disaster, and perhaps its greatest hero.
Vanderbilt would decide to enlarge--rather than abandon--Sagamore, as a 31-year-old mother of two small boys still in her widow's weeds, is not surprising to me. It was probably no more of a challenge to her than teaching Uncle George how to shoot.
www.sagamore.org /history.htm   (4432 words)

  
 Alfred G. Vanderbilt II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
(September 22, 1912 - November 12, 1999) was a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family, a son of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who died in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
His mother gave him a 600 acre (2.4 km²) horse farm in Maryland for his 21st birthday, and it was in horse racing that he made his mark, the family having by then lost control of their former railroad interests.
Vanderbilt was equally famous for arranging the epic 1938 Pimlico Special match race between Seabiscuit and War Admiral, at the Pimlico Race Course (Baltimore, Maryland), which he both owned and was president of.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_G._Vanderbilt_II   (195 words)

  
 Native Dancer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Native Dancer (March 27, 1950-November 16, 1967), nicknamed the Gray Ghost, was one of the most celebrated and accomplished thoroughbred racehorses in history, the first horse made famous through the medium of television.
Born at Scott Farm near Lexington, Kentucky, the gray colt was raised and trained at owner Alfred G. Vanderbilt Jr.
A son of 1945 Preakness Stakes winner Polynesian by the mare Geisha, in his first season of racing Native Dancer won all nine races he entered, thrilling crowds with his come-from-behind running style.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Native_Dancer   (480 words)

  
 New York Racing Association - Aqueduct   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
ALFRED GWYNN VANDERBILT, for whom the race was re-named, was one of the driving forces behind racing in this country for most of the 20th Century.
Vanderbilt was born in London in 1912 into one of American’s more famous families.
Vanderbilt passed away in November of 1999 at his home in Mills Neck, New York.
www.nyra.com /chart/stakes2a2005.asp?stakeid=489&track=S   (225 words)

  
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Vanderbilt took off his lifebelt and gave it to a woman who passed him on the deck, trembling with fear of the fate she expected to meet.
Vanderbilt, who had given largely to the Red Cross, was returning to England in order to offer a fleet of wagons and himself as driver to the Red Cross Society, for he said he felt every day that he was not doing enough.
Vanderbilt had been much in company of the Thomas party during the trip, and evidently had volunteered to do Lady Mackworth the service of saving her gems for her.
www.gutenberg.org /files/15480/15480.txt   (15797 words)

  
 Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt: The Lusitania Resource
Alfred was born in New York on 20 October 1877 to Cornelius and Alice Claypoole Gwynne Vanderbilt.
Vanderbilt was on his yacht with friend Thomas Slidell when they watched the Lusitania complete her maiden voyage to New York in September of 1907.
Alfred's wife Margaret shut herself in her room of the Vanderbilt Hotel, refusing to believe that her husband was dead.
rmslusitania.info /pages/saloon_class/vanderbilt_ag.html   (1806 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Cornelius Vanderbilt, (Business Leaders, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Although his efforts to gain control of the Erie RR proved unsuccessful, Vanderbilt vastly expanded his railroad empire and by 1873 connected Chicago with New York City by rail.
New Brunswick, N.J., succeeded Cornelius Vanderbilt as president of the New York Central RR and augmented the family fortune.
With his wife, Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt, 1845–1934, he built the famous "Breakers" estate in Newport, R.I. Their daughter, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1875–1942, became a sculptor, art patron, and founder (1930) of New York's Whitney Museum of American Art.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/VandbltC.html   (651 words)

  
 Vanderbilt, Cornelius on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1851, when the gold rush to California was at its height, Vanderbilt opened a shipping line from the East Coast to California, including land transit across Nicaragua along the route of the proposed Nicaragua Canal.
With his wife, Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt, 1845-1934, he built the famous “Breakers” estate in Newport, R.I. Their daughter, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1875-1942, became a sculptor, art patron, and founder (1930) of New York's Whitney Museum of American Art.
The fourth son of William H. Vanderbilt was George Washington Vanderbilt, 1862-1914, b.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/V/VandbltC1.asp   (688 words)

  
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His daughter was Margaret Emerson McKim Vanderbilt Baker Amory, the Vanderbilt being Alfred G. Vanderbilt, who went down with the Lusitania in 1915.
His daughter was Margaret Emerson McKim Vanderbilt Baker Amory, the Vanderbilt being Alfred G.
Margaret's daughter Gloria Baker was one of the nation's most popular and richest women when she made her 1938 society debut in a $50,000 dress.
www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/e/Emerson,Isaac_E.   (887 words)

  
 Vanderbilt School of Medicine: Medical Alumni Affairs
Four members of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine class of 1943--the only time two medical school classes were graduated in one year--reunited at the 1998 Vanderbilt Medical Alumni Reunion.
Edward G. Nelson, chairman of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Board, was honored at Reunion with an Distinguished Service Award for his constant devotion and efforts on behalf of the medical center.
Since 1979 Nelson has been a member of the Vanderbilt Board of Trust and is active on several of its committees.
www.mc.vanderbilt.edu /alum-dev/rescrap.htm   (658 words)

  
 Museum of American Financial History
In America, some of the legendary names in the history of the nation's capital markets were making their reputations: Baker, Morgan, Vanderbilt, Gould, Ford, Whitney, Plant, Hearst, Cassatt.
He made a mistake that lead to the death of a man, yet at one time or another J.P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Harold S. Vanderbilt, Junius S. Morgan, Jr., A.J. Cassatt, and Alfred G. Vanderbilt all relied totally on his skill, judgment, and integrity.
Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Harold S. Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Harry Paine Whitney, William Randolph Hearst, A.J. Drexel, August Belmont, William K. Vanderbilt, Harold S. Vanderbilt, Junius S. Morgan, Jr., A.J. Cassat, Alfred G. Vanderbilt all bought yachts or tenders at one time or another from the Herreshoffs.
www.financialhistory.org /fh/1996/56-1.html   (1750 words)

  
 Exploring News & Features - Genetic reasons for 'storms inside brain' examined   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Epileptic seizures blow in suddenly, their rapid and rhythmic electrical bursts disrupting normal brain activity.
At the cellular and molecular level, these electrical storms are not completely understood, said Dr. Alfred L. George Jr., Grant W. Liddle Professor of Medicine and director of the division of Genetic Medicine.
Graduate student Christoph Lossin is the primary author of the Neuron paper.
exploration.vanderbilt.edu /news/news_brainstorms.htm   (951 words)

  
 Thoroughbred Racing Communications Notebook - August 11, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Arlington Million and Beverly D. Stakes, along with the Sword Dancer Invitational and the Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap from Saratoga, can be seen live on Emirates Airline Super Saturday from 4:00-6:00 p.m.
To wager, fans should ask for "National Pick 4." The first leg of the NTRA National Pick 4 will be the Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap, which has a scheduled post time of 4:15 p.m.
The Vanderbilt will be followed in order by the Beverly D. (4:35 p.m.
www.webcom.com /alauck/trc/trc05/trc0811.html   (2688 words)

  
 Saratoga Daily Notebook
He's bred for speed top and bottom and the dam's only other foal was a juvenile winner.
In the Alfred G. Vanderbilt H. (G2), I'M THE TIGER (Siphon [Brz]) merits the nod at a price in a wide-open sprint.
He was a good second last out in fast time at Woodbine in his first start for trainer Frankel and should be a big factor here with Todd Kabel.
www.brisnet.com /cgi-bin/editorial/news/article.cgi?id=2096   (1068 words)

  
 How Appealing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As the AP article explains at its outset, "The state is not constitutionally obligated to pay for abortions for poor women who may have health complications from their pregnancy, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Tuesday." The court's ruling was 8-0 with Justice Deborah G. Hankinson not participating.
Convicts who refuse to participate are sent to high security institutions, must live in four-man cells, and receive fewer visitors from outside the prison, fewer job opportunities, and fewer other privileges.
Respondent Robert G. Lile, who had been convicted of rape and related offenses, sued, claiming that the treatment program's enticements violated his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
appellateblog.blogspot.com /2002_12_01_appellateblog_archive.html   (7292 words)

  
 SILVER INVESTOR
Joseph B. Dial was a CFTC commissioner from June 19, 1991 through June 19, 1996, and from the summer 1997 Commodity Conference in Jackson, Mississippi we find he was a member of the Texas Farm Bureau for 30 years.
The Vanderbilts are still very much powers in world finance, as Alfred G. Vanderbilt Jr.
We note a Thomas G. Corcoran who was assistant Secretary of the Treasury and contributed to drafting the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and a Howard Corcoran who was U.S. District judge in D.C. beginning in 1965.
www.silver-investor.com /charlessavoie/CFTC.htm   (8016 words)

  
 Vanderbilt University School of Medicine: Medicine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Third-year medical students participate in a ten-week clinical clerkship under the aegis of the Department of Medicine, using the clinical services of the Vanderbilt, VA, and Saint Thomas Hospitals.
All students spend the first eight weeks on an inpatient rotation and the last two weeks on an outpatient rotation.
"Vanderbilt" and the Vanderbilt logo are registered trademarks and service marks of Vanderbilt University.
www.vanderbilt.edu /catalogs/medical/medicine.html   (853 words)

  
 SBF Glossary: Jo. to J-2
It was used for scientific calculations for general research.
JR got back together with the rest of the Sex Pistols for a recording session or concert or something, in 1997, so he could insult them and give a filip to his sagging solo career.
JR's toilet paper on exhibit at the VTPM.
www.plexoft.com /SBF/J02.html   (6179 words)

  
 SILVER INVESTOR
Knight is a member of what I will simply term the "World Money Power." The Whitneys are intermarried with the Vanderbilts, sponsors of the anti-silver American Economic Association at Vanderbilt University.
The Vanderbilts are at the center of the "World Money Power," concealed by bogus rankings of big rich.
There is another organization that must be considered in relation to China, silver, and the paper money mob, and that is the Trilateral Commission.
www.silver-investor.com /charlessavoie/cs_june04.htm   (6907 words)

  
 Thoroughbred Times On-Line - 2000 Saratoga Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In the second, Noble Aly Star, ridden by Chris DeCarlo, got nipped on the wire at 65-to-1, paying $57.50 to place.
False Positive, ridden by Hector Rosario Jr., paid $11.40 to win.
DeCarlo came back to win the fifth race with Sheikh Rattle ($24.60).
thoroughbredtimes.com /journals/saratoga?track=saratoga&year=2000&...   (927 words)

  
 .: Crestwood Farm :.
Haitian Hit (99 g Jackpot Jenny by Regal Classic) $81,226, 2nd Bill Thomas Memorial H (SUN, $11,020), to 6, 2005
(02 g Better Look Twice by Bet Twice) $75,190, 2nd Northern Lights Futurity -R (CBY, $11,060), 3rd Minnesota Derby -R (CBY, $6,908), Victor S Myers Jr.
Latexo (00 g Dinababe by Northern Baby) $40,668, 3rd Tony Sanchez Memorial Mile S (MAN, $1,980) to 5, 2005
www.crestwoodfarm.com /petionville2.shtml   (1168 words)

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