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  Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt: The Lusitania Resource
Alfred was born in New York on 20 October 1877 to Cornelius and Alice Claypoole Gwynne Vanderbilt.
As a youth, Alfred was educated at St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire, and at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Alfred's wife Margaret shut herself in her room of the Vanderbilt Hotel, refusing to believe that her husband was dead.
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  Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, born October 20, 1877 - died May 7, 1915, was a sportsman and a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family.
As his eldest brother William Henry Vanderbilt II had died in 1892 at the age of 22 and their father had disinherited Cornelius Vanderbilt III, Alfred received the largest share of his father's estate when he died in 1899, though it was also divided among their sisters and youngest son Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt.
Alfred Vanderbilt married Ellen French in 1901 in Newport, Rhode Island.
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 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Jr. - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
(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 Racecourse (Baltimore, Maryland), which he both owned and was president of.
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 CONK! Encyclopedia: Cornelius_Vanderbilt_II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Cornelius Vanderbilt II (November 27, 1843 – September 12, 1899) was a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family.
He was the favorite grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who left him $5 million, and the eldest son of William Henry Vanderbilt, who left him close to $70 million.
Their eldest son William Henry Vanderbilt II (1870-1892) died while a junior at Yale University, and Cornelius endowed a large dormitory there.
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 Encyclopedia: Vanderbilt family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The family was founded by Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877), the fourth of nine children born to a Staten Island family of modest means.
Cornelius Vanderbilt left school at the age of 11 and went on to build a shipping and railroad empire that, during the 19th century, made him one of the wealthiest men in the world.
Josiah Hornblower, a descendant of the Vanderbilts and heir to the Vanderbilt/Whitney empire, is featured in a documentary called Born Rich about the experience of growing up as the heir to one of the world's greatest fortunes.
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Alfred -> Reign Early Wars with the Danes Upon Æthelred's death after Easter in 871, Alfred became king of the West Saxons and overlord of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Essex.
Alfred University Alfred University, at Alfred, N.Y.; state and private support; coeducational; opened as a school 1836, chartered 1857 as Alfred Univ. It is especially known for the College of Ceramics, which is among the few institutions in the United States offering a doctoral program in ceramics.
Alfred -> Early Life The youngest son of King Æthelwulf, he was sent in 853 to Rome, where the pope gave him the title of Roman consul.
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 Sagamore.org - History
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.
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 Encyclopedia: Cornelius Vanderbilt II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Cornelius Vanderbilt Cornelius Vanderbilt (May 27, 1794 – January 4, 1877) was a U.S. entrepreneur who built his wealth in shipping and railroads and is the patriarch of the Vanderbilt family.
William Henry Vanderbilt (May 8, 1821 – December 8, 1885) was a businessman and a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family.
Cornelius Vanderbilt III Cornelius Vanderbilt III (September 5, 1873 - March 1, 1942) was a distinguished American military officer, inventor, engineer, and yachtsman, and a member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family.
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 Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board: Vanderbilt cabin?
Vanderbilt was unlucky to be on the Lusitania when she was torpedoed.
Alfred Vanderbilt is the son of Cornelieus Vanderbilt II and Alice Gwynne.
Cornelius II is George Vanderbilt's brother, being among five children of William Henry Vanderbilt, the son of The Commodore.
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 Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Alfred Vanderbilt was educated at St. Paul's School in (Click link for more info and facts about Concord, New Hampshire) Concord, New Hampshire, and at (A university in Connecticut) Yale University.
Vanderbilt spent considerable time in (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London and remarried there in 1911 to the wealthy American divorcée Margaret Emerson.
On May 1, 1915 Alfred Vanderbilt boarded the (Click link for more info and facts about RMS Lusitania) RMS Lusitania bound for (A large city in northwestern England; its port is the country's major outlet for industrial exports) Liverpool.
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 Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt: The Lusitania Resource
Alfred was born in New York on 20 October 1877 to Cornelius and Alice Claypoole Gwynne Vanderbilt.
As a youth, Alfred was educated at St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire, and at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Alfred's wife Margaret shut herself in her room of the Vanderbilt Hotel, refusing to believe that her husband was dead.
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 Vanderbilt, Cornelius on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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.
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.
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 Vanderbilt family - Freepedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The prominent United States Vanderbilt family was founded by Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877), the fourth of nine children born to a Staten Island, New York family of modest means.
Although Cornelius Vanderbilt always occupied a modest home, members of his family would use their wealth to built magnificent Vanderbilt mansions.
Cornelius Vanderbilt and a number of his offspring are interred in the family mausoleum at the Moravian Cemetery in New Dorp on Staten Island, New York.
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 Class and Leisure at America's First Resort: Newport, Rhode Island, 1870-1914
Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843-1899) was the oldest son of William Henry Vanderbilt and the grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, patriarch of the Vanderbilt dynasty.
Cornelius Vanderbilt II and his younger brothers, William K. Vanderbilt and Frederick W. Vanderbilt, succeeded their father in managing the family's vast shipping and railroad empire.
Their daughter, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, was a sculptor and founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
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 Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt
lfred Gwynne Vanderbilt left $ 26 million, most of it to his infant sons, who would also share in the Emerson fortune.
To his eldest son, William Henry Vanderbilt III, he bequeathed his Oakland Farm, with his Thoroughbred horses and a $ 5 million trust fund.
His first marriage to Cathleen Gebhardt Neilson ended in divorce and brought a daughter, Cathleen (1904-1946), who later became Mrs Henry Cooke Cushing III.
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 Descendants of Wolphert Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven - Person Page 2711
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt married Margaret Emerson, daughter of Isaac Edward Emerson and Emily Askew, on February 11, 1911.
Alfred Gywnne Vanderbilt, 87, grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt II reputed to be the richest man in the world, of Mill Neck, died on Nov. 12, 1999.
Catlina Vanderbilt married Johannes Voorhees, son of Petrus Voorhees and Mary Brokaw, in 1758.
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 The Vanderbilt Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
JACOB VANDERBILT I (ARIS JANSE, JAN AERTSEN) was born 25 June 1692 in Flatbush, Kings, New York, and died 14 December 1760 in Staten Island, New York.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT (WILLIAM HENRY, CORNELIUS, CORNELIUS, JACOB, JACOB, ARIS JANSE, JAN AERTSEN) was born 27 November 1843 in New York City, New York County, New York, and died of a cerebral hemorrhage on 12 September 1899.
One of the sons of Cornelius Vanderbilt the younger was Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt,.
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 William Henry Vanderbilt III - Wikpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Born in New York City, he was the son of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and Ellen French.
At age of maturity, Vanderbilt inherited a $5 million trust fund plus the 450 acre (1.8 km²) "Oakland Farm" in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, one of his father's estates that included a number of thoroughbred horses.
William Henry Vanderbilt III served in the Senate for six years then took time off to be with his sick wife, Anne Gordon Colby.
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 Chateau in the Carolinas: Visiting Biltmore Estate
Alfred's uncle, George Washington Vanderbilt, died in 1914, but his grandsons, George and William Cecil, preserved his Asheville estate, Biltmore House.
In the late 1800s, when Vanderbilt was buying up stripped and overgrazed land, he probably did not envision a use for his house and land beyond the pleasure of his family and guests.
George Washington Vanderbilt, brother of Cornelius Vanderbilt II (father of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr.) had no interest in Thoroughbreds and did not share his father's passion for pacers.
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 Cornelius Vanderbilt
Staten Island, N.Y., was a son of William H. Vanderbilt.
The fourth son of William H. Vanderbilt was
Cornelius Vanderbilt - Cornelius Vanderbilt industrialist, financier Born: 5/27/1794 Birthplace: Port Richmond, N.Y. Vanderbilt University - Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, Tenn.; coeducational; chartered 1872 as Central Univ. of...
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 Encyclopedia: Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture.
Children of Margaret Emerson: William Henry Vanderbilt III, born November 24, 1901 - died April 14, 1981, was an American statesman and a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family.
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.
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 AllRefer.com - Cornelius Vanderbilt, (Business Leaders, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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.
Her niece and ward, Gloria Vanderbilt, 1924–, became a well-known designer of jeans and other clothes in the 1970s.
The fourth son of William H. Vanderbilt was George Washington Vanderbilt, 1862–1914, b.
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 Cornelius Vanderbilt III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Cornelius Vanderbilt III (September 5, 1873 - March 1, 1942) was a distinguished American military officer, inventor, engineer, and yachtsman, and a member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family.
Neily Vanderbilt was an inveterate tinkerer with all things mechanical and during his lifetime he patented more than thirty inventions for improving locomotives and freight cars, including several which brought him a significant royalty income.
As with other members of the Vanderbilt family, yachting was one of Neily Vanderbilt's favorite pastimes as an escape from a busy life that included a seat on the Board of Directors of a number of major American corporations.
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 Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board: Hubbard, Vanderbilt...last voyage photos?
Both are undated, and so I was wondering if our Lusy experts know whether they might have been taken at the time of her last trip.
I have a feeling the one of Vanderbilt, although the caption says it was taken at the Cunard pier, is not 1915, since he’s boarding his car, not leaving it; also the license plate number seems to read 1913 (but it’s fuzzy so I can’t really tell).
It is eerie looking at photos of people (Hubbard, Vanderbilt, Anne Shymer, Jacques Futrelle, Frederick Wheeler)standing on decks that they were soon to die on.
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 Chapter Excerpt: Native Dancer: The Grey Ghost by John Eisenberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Winfrey offered Guerin a leg up with the advice he always gave: "Just ride him with confidence." Wearing a white cap and Vanderbilt's silks of cerise and white diamonds with cerise and white sleeves, the jockey jogged the horse down the chute along with the rest of the field.
One by one, the horses were loaded into the starting gate as early evening enveloped the track and a slanting sun cast lengthening shadows.
Vanderbilt and Winfrey posed for win pictures as reporters surrounded Arcaro, who could only shake his head.
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 Cornelius Vanderbilt II - Freepedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Cornelius Vanderbilt II From Freepedia, the free encyclopedia.
Cornelius Vanderbilt II (November 27 1843 - September 12 1899) was a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family.
His daughters were Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and Countess Gladys Szechenyi.
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 Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Alfred Vanderbilt was educated at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and at Yale University.
A scandal erupted in 1908 after she filed for divorce, alleging adultery with Agnes Ruiz, the wife of the Cuban attaché in Washington, D.C.
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 Alfred G. Vanderbilt II - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Alfred G. Vanderbilt II - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Alfred G. Vanderbilt II Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr.
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 Cornelius Vanderbilt II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He was the favorite grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt who left him $5 million and eldest son of William Henry Vanderbilt who left him close to $70 In his turn he succeeded them as of the New York Central and related railroad lines.
Their eldest son Henry Vanderbilt II (1870-1892) died while a at Yale University and Cornelius endowed a large dormitory He disinherited his second son Cornelius Vanderbilt III (1873-1942) for marrying without his permission.
The fabulous Fifth Avenue mansions he his brothers and his lived in have been demolished but the Newport Rhode Island vacation home he built The Breakers still stands as a memory of lifestyle of Cornelius Vanderbilt II.
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