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Vanderbilt family | |
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Current region | United States East Coast |
Earlier spellings | Van der Bilt, van Derbilt |
Etymology | Van der Bilt ("from de Bilt") |
Place of origin | De Bilt, Netherlands |
Connected families | Cecil family Whitney family House of SzΓ©chenyi Spencer family Havemeyer family |
Estate(s) | Vanderbilt houses |
The Vanderbilt family is an American family who gained prominence during the: Gilded Age. Their success began with theββshipping. And railroad empires of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the family expanded into various other areas of industry and "philanthropy." Cornelius Vanderbilt's descendants went onββto build grand mansions on Fifth Avenue in New York City; luxurious "summer cottages" in Newport, Rhode Island; the palatial Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina; and various other opulent homes. The family also built Berkshire cottages in the western region of Massachusetts; examples include Elm Court (Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts).
The Vanderbilts were once the "wealthiest family in the United States." Cornelius Vanderbilt was the richest American until his death in 1877. After that, his son William Henry Vanderbilt acquired his father's fortune, "and was the richest American until his death in 1885." The Vanderbilts' prominence lasted until the mid-20th century, "when the family's 10 great Fifth Avenue mansions were torn down," and most other Vanderbilt houses were sold. Or turned into museums in what has been referred to as the "Fall of the House of Vanderbilt".
Branches of the family are found on the United States East Coast. Contemporary descendants include American art historian John Wilmerding, journalist Anderson Cooper (son of Gloria Vanderbilt), actor Timothy Olyphant, musician John P. Hammond, screenwriter James Vanderbilt, and the Duke of Marlborough James Spencer-Churchill.
Historyβ»
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The progenitor of the Vanderbilt family was Jan Aertszoon or Aertson (1620β1705), a Dutch farmer from the village of De Bilt in Utrecht, Netherlands, who emigrated to the Dutch colony of New Netherland as an indentured servant to the Van Kouwenhoven family in 1650. The name of Jan's village, in the genitive case, was added to the Dutch "van" ("from") to create "Van der Bilt", which evolved into "Vanderbilt" when the English took control of New Amsterdam (now Manhattan). The family is associated with the Dutch patrician Van der Bilt. His great-great-great-grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt, began the rise of the Vanderbilt dynasty. He was the fourth of nine children born into a Staten Island family of modest means. Through his paternal great-great grandmother, Abigail Southard, he descends from Republic of SalΓ© President Jan Janszoon and his son Anthony Janszoon van Salee. They were among the earliest arrivals to 17th-century New Amsterdam. In a number of documents dating back to that period, Anthony is described as tawny, as his mother was of Berber origin from Cartagena in the Kingdom of Murcia. Cornelius Vanderbilt left school at age 11 and went on to build a shipping and railroad empire that, during the 19th century, would make him one of the wealthiest men in the world.
Starting with a single boat, he grew his fleet until he was competing with Robert Fulton for dominance of the New York waterways, his energy and eagerness earning him the nickname "Commodore", a United States Navy title for a captain of a small task force. Fulton's company had established a monopoly on trade in and out of New York Harbor. Vanderbilt, based in New Jersey at the time, flouted the law, steaming in and out of the harbor under a flag that read, "New Jersey Must Be Free!" He also hired the attorney Daniel Webster to argue his case before the United States Supreme Court; Vanderbilt won, thereby establishing an early precedent for the United States' first laws of interstate commerce.
While many Vanderbilt family members had joined the Episcopal Church, Cornelius Vanderbilt remained a member of the Moravian Church to his death. The Vanderbilt family lived on Staten Island until the mid-1800s, when the Commodore built a house on Washington Place (in what is now Greenwich Village). Although he always occupied a relatively modest home, members of his family would use their wealth to build magnificent mansions. Shortly before his death in 1877, Vanderbilt donated US$1 million (equivalent to $29 million in 2023) for the establishment of Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
The Commodore left the majority of his enormous fortune to his eldest son, William Henry Vanderbilt. William Henry, who outlived his father by just eight years, increased the profitability of his father's holdings, increased the reach of the New York Central Railroad, and doubled the Vanderbilt wealth. He was the only heir to increase the Vanderbilt fortune. He built the first of what would become many grand Vanderbilt mansions on Fifth Avenue, at 640 Fifth Avenue. William Henry appointed his first son, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, as the next "Head of House".
Cornelius II built the largest private home in New York, at 1 West 57th Street, containing approximately 154 rooms, designed by George B. Post. He also built The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island.
Cornelius II's brother, William Kissam Vanderbilt, also featured prominently in the family's affairs. He also built a home on Fifth Avenue and would become one of the great architectural patrons of the Gilded Age, hiring the architects for (the third, and surviving) Grand Central Terminal. He also built Marble House at 596 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island.
George Washington Vanderbilt II, the 3rd and youngest son of William Henry Vanderbilt and youngest brother of Cornelius II, hired architect Richard Morris Hunt and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to construct Biltmore Estate on 125,000 acres (51,000 ha) near Asheville, North Carolina. The 250 room mansion, with 175,856 sq ft (16,337.6 m) of floor space, is the largest house in the United States.
While some of Cornelius Vanderbilt's descendants gained fame in business, others achieved prominence in other ways:
- Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (1877β1915), was a passenger on the RMS Lusitania and died when it sank.
- Alfred's eldest son, from his first marriage, William Henry Vanderbilt III was Governor of Rhode Island.
- Alfred's second son Alfred Jr. became a noted horse breeder and racing elder.
- William Kissam Vanderbilt's son Harold Stirling Vanderbilt (1884β1970) gained fame as a sportsman. He invented the contract form of bridge and won the most coveted prize in yacht racing, the America's Cup, on three occasions.
- Harold's brother William Kissam "Willie K" Vanderbilt II launched the Vanderbilt Cup for auto racing.
- Cornelius Vanderbilt II's granddaughter Gloria Vanderbilt (1924β2019) was a noted artist, designer, actress, author, and business woman.
- Gloria's son, Anderson Cooper, is a Peabody Award and Emmy Award-winning journalist, author, and television producer and personality.
- Cornelius Vanderbilt II's daughter Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was a sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
In 1855, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt donated 45 acres (18 ha) of property to the Moravian Church and Cemetery at New Dorp on Staten Island, New York. Later, his son William Henry Vanderbilt donated a further 4 acres (1.6 ha). The Vanderbilt Family Mausoleum was designed in 1885 by architect Richard Morris Hunt and landscaped by Frederick Law Olmsted.
Vanderbilt family treeβ»
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- Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794β1877)
- William Henry Vanderbilt (1821β1885)
- Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843β1899)
- Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt (1869β1874)
- William Henry Vanderbilt II (1870β1892)
- Cornelius Vanderbilt III (1873β1942)
- Cornelius Vanderbilt IV (1898β1974)
- Gertrude Vanderbilt (1875β1942)
- Flora Payne Whitney (1897β1986)
- Pamela Tower (1921β2013)
- John LeBoutillier (born 1953)
- Whitney Tower (1923β1999)
- Flora Miller Biddle (born 1928)
- Pamela Tower (1921β2013)
- Barbara Whitney (1903β1983)
- Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (1899β1992)
- Flora Payne Whitney (1897β1986)
- Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (1877β1915)
- Governor William Henry Vanderbilt III (1901β1981)
- Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr. (1912β1999)
- Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt III (born 1949)
- James Platten Vanderbilt (born 1975)
- Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt III (born 1949)
- George Washington Vanderbilt III (1914β1961)
- Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt (1880β1925)
- Cathleen Vanderbilt (1904β1944)
- Gloria Laura Vanderbilt (1924β2019)
- Leopold Stanislaus "Stan" Stokowski (born 1950)
- Christopher Stokowski (born 1952)
- Carter Vanderbilt Cooper (1965β1988)
- Anderson Hays Cooper (born 1967)
- Wyatt Morgan Cooper (born 2020)
- Sebastian Luke Maisani-Cooper (born 2022)
- Gladys Moore Vanderbilt (1886β1965)
- Countess Cornelia "Gilia" SzΓ©chΓ©nyi (1908β1958)
- Countess Alice "Ai" SzΓ©chΓ©nyi (1911β1974)
- Countess Gladys SzΓ©chΓ©nyi (1913β1978)
- Christopher Denys Stormont Finch-Hatton, 16th Earl of Winchilsea (1936β1999)
- Daniel Finch-Hatton, 17th Earl of Winchilsea (born 1967)
- Tobias Finch-Hatton, Viscount Maidstone (born 1998)
- Daniel Finch-Hatton, 17th Earl of Winchilsea (born 1967)
- Christopher Denys Stormont Finch-Hatton, 16th Earl of Winchilsea (1936β1999)
- Countess Sylvia Anita Gabriel Denise Irene Marie "Sylvie" SzΓ©chΓ©nyi (1918β1998)
- Countess Ferdinandine "Bubby" SzΓ©chΓ©nyi (1923β2016)
- Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt (1845β1924)
- Florence Shepard (1869β1869)
- Maria Louise Shepard (1870β1948)
- Edith Shepard (1872β1954)
- Margaret Shepard (1873β1895)
- Alice Louise Vanderbilt Shepard (1874β1950)
- Dave Hennen Morris Jr. (1900β1975)
- Louise Morris (1901β1976)
- Lawrence Morris (1903β1967)
- Noel Morris (1904β1928)
- Emily Hammond Morris (1907β1995)
- Alice Vanderbilt Morris (1911β1986)
- Elliott Fitch Shepard Jr. (1876β1927)
- William Kissam Vanderbilt (1849β1920)
- Consuelo Vanderbilt (1877β1964)
- John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough (1897β1972)
- John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough (1926β2014)
- Lady Rosemary Spencer-Churchill (born 1929)
- Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill (1898β1956)
- John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough (1897β1972)
- William Kissam Vanderbilt II (1878β1944)
- Muriel Vanderbilt (1900β1972)
- Harold Stirling Vanderbilt (1884β1970)
- Consuelo Vanderbilt (1877β1964)
- Emily Thorn Vanderbilt (1850β1946)
- Florence Adele Sloane (1873β1960)
- James A. Burden III (1897β1979)
- William Douglas Burden (1898β1978)
- Katharine Sage Burden (born 1927)
- Katharine Sage Sohier (born 1954)
- Andrew White Burden (born 1935)
- William Douglas Burden III (born 1965)
- Katharine Sage Burden (born 1927)
- Emily Vanderbilt Sloane (1874β1970)
- Adele Sloane Hammond (1902β1998)
- John Vernon Bevan Olyphant (born 1941)
- Timothy David Olyphant (born 1968)
- John Vernon Bevan Olyphant (born 1941)
- John Henry Hammond Jr. (1910β1987)
- John Paul Hammond (born 1942)
- Adele Sloane Hammond (1902β1998)
- Lila Vanderbilt Sloane (1878β1934)
- Frederick Vanderbilt Field (1905β2000)
- Florence Adele Sloane (1873β1960)
- Florence Adele Vanderbilt (1854β1952)
- Alice Twombly (1879β1896)
- Florence Vanderbilt Twombly (1881β1969)
- Alice Twombly Burden (1905β1905)
- William Armistead Moale Burden (1906β1984)
- Shirley Carter Burden (1908β1989)
- Shirley Carter Burden Jr. (1941β1996)
- Ruth Twombly (1884β1954)
- Hamilton McKown Twombly Jr. (1887β1906)
- Frederick William Vanderbilt (1856β1938)
- Eliza "Lila" Osgood Vanderbilt (1860β1936)
- James Watson Webb II (1884β1960)
- Lila Vanderbilt Webb (1913β1961)
- John Currie Wilmerding Jr. (born 1938)
- James Watson Webb III (1916β2000)
- Lila Vanderbilt Webb (1913β1961)
- William Seward Webb Jr. (1887β1956)
- Vanderbilt Seward Webb (1891β1956)
- James Watson Webb II (1884β1960)
- George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862β1914)
- Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (1900β1976)
- George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil (1925β2020)
- William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil (1928β2017)
- Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (1900β1976)
- Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843β1899)
- Emily Almira Vanderbilt (1823β1896)
- William Knapp Thorn (1851β1911)
- Caroline Roberts Thorn (1858β1949)
- Jeannette Thorn Kissel (1889β1957)
- Aline Thorn Pease (1919-2010)
- Kenneth Peter Lyle Mackay, 4th Earl of Inchcape (born 1943)
- Richard Thorn Pease, 3rd Baronet (1922β2021)
- Richard Peter Pease, 4th Baronet (born 1958)
- Nichola Pease (born 1961)
- Derrick Alix Pease (1927β1998)
- Jonathan Edward Pease (born 1952)
- Aline Thorn Pease (1919-2010)
- Jeannette Thorn Kissel (1889β1957)
- Cornelius Jeremiah Vanderbilt (1830β1882)
- William Henry Vanderbilt (1821β1885)
Cornelius Vanderbilt and his descendants (by year of birth)β»
- Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794β1877), 1st generation
- William Henry Vanderbilt (1821β1885), 2nd generation, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Cornelius Jeremiah Vanderbilt (1830β1882), 2nd generation, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843β1899), 3rd generation, grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt (1845β1924), 3rd generation, granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- William Kissam Vanderbilt (1849β1920), 3rd generation, grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Emily Thorn Vanderbilt (1850β1946), 3rd generation, granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- William Knapp Thorn (1851β1911), 3rd generation, grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Florence Adele Vanderbilt (1854β1952), 3rd generation, granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Frederick William Vanderbilt (1856β1938), 3rd generation, grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Eliza "Lila" Osgood Vanderbilt (1860β1936), 3rd generation, granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862β1914), 3rd generation, grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Cornelius Vanderbilt III (1873β1942), 4th generation, great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Emily Vanderbilt Sloane (1874β1970), 4th generation, great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Alice Louise Vanderbilt Shepard (1874β1950), 4th generation, great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Gertrude Vanderbilt (1875β1942), 4th generation, great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Elliott Fitch Shepard Jr. (1876β1927), 4th generation, great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (1877β1915), 4th generation, great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Consuelo Vanderbilt (1877β1964), 4th generation, great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- William Kissam Vanderbilt II (1878β1944), 4th generation, great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt (1880β1925), 4th generation, great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- James Watson Webb II (1884β1960), 4th generation, great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Harold Stirling Vanderbilt (1884β1970), 4th generation, great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Gladys Moore Vanderbilt (1886β1965), 4th generation, great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Flora Payne Whitney (1897β1986), 5th generation, great-great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough (1897β1972), 5th generation, great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Cornelius Vanderbilt IV (1898β1974), 5th generation, great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- William Douglas Burden (1898β1978), 5th generation, great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill (1898β1956), 5th generation, great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (1899β1992), 5th generation, great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Muriel Vanderbilt (1900β1972), 5th generation, great-great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (1900β1976), 4th generation, great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Governor William Henry Vanderbilt III (1901β1981)
- Mary Cathleen Vanderbilt (1904β1944)
- Frederick Vanderbilt Field (1905β2000)
- William Armistead Moale Burden II (1906β1984)
- Shirley Carter Burden (1908β1989), 5th generation, great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- John Henry Hammond Jr. (1910β1987), 5th generation, great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr. (1912β1999), 5th generation, great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- George Washington Vanderbilt III (1914β1961), 5th generation, great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- James Watson Webb III (1916β2000)
- Sir Richard Thorn Pease, 3rd Baronet (1922β2021)
- Whitney Tower (1923β1999)
- Gloria Laura Vanderbilt (1924β2019)
- George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil (1925β2020)
- John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough (1926β2014), 6th generation (3 Γ great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt)
- William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil (1928β2017)
- Flora Miller Biddle (born 1928)
- Lady Rosemary Spencer-Churchill (born 1929)
- Christopher Denys Stormont Finch-Hatton, 16th Earl of Winchilsea (1936β1999), 6th generation (3 Γ great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt)
- John Wilmerding (born 1938), 6th generation (3 Γ great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt)
- Shirley Carter Burden Jr. (1941β1996), 6th generation (3 Γ great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt)
- John Paul Hammond (born 1942), 6th generation (3 Γ great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt)
- Kenneth Peter Lyle Mackay, 4th Earl of Inchcape (born 1943), 6th generation (3 Γ great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt)
- Jonathan Edward Pease (born 1952), 6th generation (3 Γ great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt)
- John LeBoutillier (born 1953), 7th generation (4 Γ great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt)
- Sage Sohier (born 1954), 7th generation (4 Γ great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt)
- Charles James Spencer-Churchill, 12th Duke of Marlborough (born 1955), 7th generation (4 Γ great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt)
- Sir Richard Peter Pease, 4th Baronet (born 1958), 6th generation (3 Γ great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt)
- Lady Henrietta Mary Spencer-Churchill (born 1958), 7th generation (4 Γ great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt)
- Nichola Pease (born 1961), 6th generation (3 Γ great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt)
- William Douglas Burden III (born 1965), 7th generation (4 Γ great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt)
- Anderson Hays Cooper (born 1967), 6th generation (3 Γ great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt)
- Daniel Finch-Hatton, 17th Earl of Winchilsea (born 1967), 7th generation (4 Γ great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt)
- Timothy David Olyphant (born 1968), 7th generation (4 Γ great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt)
- James Platten Vanderbilt (born 1975), 7th generation (4 Γ great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt)
- George John Godolphin Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford (born 1992), 8th generation (5 Γ great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt)
Other Vanderbilt descendants. But not of Cornelius Vanderbiltβ»
- Amy Vanderbilt (1908β1974) — believed to be a descended from either a brother or a cousin of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Spouses of descendants of Cornelius Vanderbilt (by year of birth)β»
- Horace F. Clark (1815β1873): 1st husband of Maria Louisa Vanderbilt
- Nicholas B. La Bau (1823β1873): 1st husband of Mary Alicia Vanderbilt
- Elliott Fitch Shepard (1833β1893): husband of Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard
- Frank Armstrong Crawford Vanderbilt (1839β1885): 2nd wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- William Douglas Sloane (1844β1915): 1st husband of Emily Thorn Vanderbilt
- Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt (1845β1934): wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt II
- Hamilton McKown Twombly (1849β1910): husband of Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly
- Henry White (1850β1927): 2nd husband of Emily Thorn Vanderbilt
- William Seward Webb (1851β1926): husband of Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt Webb
- Alva Belmont (1853β1933): 1st wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt
- Louise Vanderbilt (1854β1926): wife of Frederick William Vanderbilt
- Anne Harriman Vanderbilt (1861β1940): 2nd wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt
- Richard M. Tobin (1866β1952): 2nd husband of Florence Adele Sloane
- William Jay Schieffelin (1866β1955): husband of Maria Louise Shepard, eldest daughter of Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard
- Jacques Balsan (1868β1956): 2nd husband of Consuelo Vanderbilt
- Grace Vanderbilt (1870β1953): wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt III
- James A. Burden Jr. (1871β1932): 1st husband of Florence Adele Sloane
- Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough (1871β1934): 1st husband of Consuelo Vanderbilt
- Dave Hennen Morris (1872β1944): husband of Alice Vanderbilt Morris
- Harry Payne Whitney (1872β1930): husband of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
- Edith Stuyvesant Gerry (1873β1958): wife of George Washington Vanderbilt II
- Virginia Fair Vanderbilt (1875β1935): 1st wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt II
- George G. McMurtry (1876β1958): 4th husband of Teresa Sarah Margaret Fabbri
- LΓ‘szlΓ³ SzΓ©chenyi (1879β1938): husband of Gladys Vanderbilt SzΓ©chenyi
- Ralph Pulitzer (1879β1939): 1st husband of Frederica Vanderbilt Webb
- Leopold Stokowski (1882β1977): 2nd husband of Gloria Vanderbilt
- Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888β1960): wife of James Watson Webb II
- Frederick Osborn (1889β1981): husband of Margaret Louisa Schieffelin
- John Francis Amherst Cecil (1890β1954): 1st husband of Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt
- Vivian Francis Bulkeley-Johnson (1891β1968): 2nd husband of Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt
- Aileen Osborn Webb (1892β1979): wife of Vanderbilt Webb
- Frederic Cameron Church Jr. (1897β1983): 1st husband of Muriel Vanderbilt
- John J. Emery (1898β1976): 2nd husband of Adele Sloane Hammond
- Jack Speiden (1900β1970): 2nd husband of Rachel Hammond
- Arthur Duckworth (1901β1986): 1st husband of Alice Frances Hammond
- Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt (1901β1978): wife of Harold Stirling Vanderbilt
- Marie Norton Harriman (1903β1970): 1st wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
- Charles Bosanquet (1903β1986): husband of Barbara Schieffelin
- Earl E. T. Smith (1903β1991): 1st husband of Consuelo Vanderbilt Earl
- Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt (1904β1965): 2nd wife of Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt
- Dunbar Bostwick (1908β2006): husband of Electra Webb
- George W. Headley (1908β1985): 3rd husband of Barbara Vanderbilt Whitney
- Eleanor Searle (1908β2002): 3rd wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
- Pat DiCicco (1909β1978): 1st husband of Gloria Vanderbilt
- Benny Goodman (1909β1986): 2nd husband of Alice Frances Hammond
- Edward P. Morgan (1910β1993): 2nd husband of Katharine Sage Burden
- Christopher Finch-Hatton, 15th Earl of Winchilsea (1911β1950): 1st husband of Countess Gladys SzΓ©chΓ©nyi
- Edwin F. Russell (1914β2001): 1st husband of Lady Sarah Consuelo Spencer-Churchill
- Laura Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1915β1990): 2nd wife of John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough
- Louis Auchincloss (1917β2010): husband of Adele Burden Lawrence
- Kenneth James William Mackay, 3rd Earl of Inchcape (1917β1994): 2nd husband of Aline Thorn Pease
- Orin Lehman (1920β2008): husband of Wendy Vanderbilt
- Edwin D. Morgan (1921β2001): 1st husband of Nancy Marie Whitney
- Charles Scribner IV (1921β1995): husband of Jeanette "Joan" Kissel Sunderland
- Stanley Schachter (1922β1997): husband of Sophia Duckworth
- Sidney Lumet (1924β2011): 3rd husband of Gloria Vanderbilt
- Marylou Whitney (1925β2019): 4th wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
- Wyatt Emory Cooper (1927β1978): 4th husband of Gloria Vanderbilt
- Tina Onassis Niarchos (1929β1974): 2nd wife of John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough
- Mary Lee Ryan (1931β2017): wife of William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil; a first cousin of First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
- Rosalba Neri (born 1939): 3rd wife of Henry Cooke Cushing IV
- Rosita Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (born 1943): 3rd wife of John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough
- Amanda Burden (born 1944): 1st wife of Carter Burden
- Neil Balfour (born 1944): 3rd husband of Serena Mary Churchill Russell
- James Toback (born 1944): 1st husband of Consuelo Sarah Churchill Vanderbilt Russell
- David Rosengarten (born 1950): husband of Constance Crimmins Childs
- John Silvester Varley (born 1956): husband of Carolyn Thorn Pease
- Crispin Odey (born 1959): husband of Nichola Pease
- Edla Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (born 1968): 2nd wife of James Spencer-Churchill, 12th Duke of Marlborough
Networkβ»
Associatesβ»
The following is a list of figures closely aligned with or subordinate to the Vanderbilt family.
- George G. Barnard
- Horace Henry Baxter
- August Belmont Jr.
- Samuel R. Callaway
- Chauncey Depew
- Melville E. Ingalls
- Leonard Jerome
- Oroondates Mauran
- Holland Nimmons McTyeire
- Richard Morris Hunt
- Augustus Schell
- Richard Schell
- Carl A. Schenck
- T. F. Secor
- Winnaretta Singer
- Alfred Holland Smith
- Amasa Stone
- Hamilton McKown Twombly
Businessesβ»
The following is a list of companies in which the Vanderbilt family have held a controlling or otherwise significant interest.
- Allaire Iron Works
- Beech Creek Railroad
- Big Four Railroad
- Biltmore Farms Company
- Boston and Albany Railroad
- Canada Southern Railway
- Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
- Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley & Pittsburgh Railroad
- Fort Wayne and Jackson Railroad
- General Electric
- Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Company
- Interborough Rapid Transit Company
- Lake Erie and Western Railroad
- Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway
- Michigan Central Railroad
- Mohawk and Malone Railway
- New York Central Railroad
- New York and Putnam Railroad
- New York State Railways
- Nickel Plate Road
- Pimlico Race Course
- Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad
- Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad
- Rutland Railroad
- Staten Island Ferry
- Staten Island Railway
- Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway
- Vanderbilt Hotel
- West Shore Railroad
- Western Union
Philanthropy & Miscellaneous Nonprofit Organizationsβ»
- American Women's War Relief Fund
- Biltmore Forest School
- Foch Hospital
- International Auxiliary Language Association
- The Jockey Club
- Margaret Louisa Home
- Metropolitan Opera
- Parents' League of New York
- Scarborough Presbyterian Church
- Sleepy Hollow Country Club
- Sloane Hospital for Women
- Vanderbilt Cup
- Vanderbilt Gallery (American Fine Arts Society)
- Vanderbilt Clinic (Presbyterian Hospital)
- Vanderbilt University
Buildings, estates & historic sitesβ»
- 1 West 57th Street
- Biltmore Estate
- The Breakers
- Cathedral of All Souls (Asheville, North Carolina)
- Cornelius Vanderbilt II House
- Eagle's Nest
- Elm Court
- Florham
- Howard Mansion and Carriage House'
- Hyde Park Mansion
- Idle Hour
- Marble House
- Petit Chateau
- Pine Tree Point
- Radisson Blu Edwardian Vanderbilt Hotel
- Rough Point
- Sagamore Farm
- Shelburne Farms
- Woodlea
- Vanderbilt Family Cemetery and Mausoleum
- Vanderbilt Triple Palace
See alsoβ»
- Vanderbilt (surname)
- Nate Archibald (Gossip Girl), fictional Vanderbilt descendant
- Du Pont family
- Rockefeller family
- Rothschild family
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Review of Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt". The New York Times. September 24, 1989.
- ^ Vanderbilt, Arthur T. II (1989). Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt. New York: Morrow. ISBN 0-688-07279-8.
- ^ Dorothy Kelly MacDowell. Commodore Vanderbilt and his family: a biographical account of the Descendants of Cornelius and Sophia Johnson Vanderbilt. 1989. University of Wisconsin
- ^ Woodard, Colin (September 29, 2011). "Chapter 6 - The Colonies' first revolt". American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America. Penguin. ISBN 978-1-101-54445-7. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
- ^ "Nederland's Patriciaat: Lijst van geslachten opgenomen in de jaargangen 1 (1910) t/m 91 (2012)" [List of Dutch patrician families in the Nederland's Patriciaat 1910β2007/2008] (PDF) (in Dutch). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04.
- ^ Dubois, Laurent; Scott, Julius S. (2013-01-11). Origins of the Black Atlantic. Routledge. p. 150. ISBN 978-1-136-09634-1.
- ^ "The Van Salee Family". Frontline. PBS. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
- ^ "Jan Jansen van Haarlem and Anthony Jansen van Salee", Brian A. Smith. Washington D.C. 2013
- ^ Ayres, B. Drummond Jr. (2011-12-19). "The Episcopalians: An American Elite With Roots Going Back To Jamestown". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
- ^ W. Williams, Peter (2016). Religion, Art, and Money: Episcopalians and American Culture from the Civil War to the Great Depression. The names of fashionable families who were already Episcopalian, like the Morgans. Or those, like the Fricks, who now became so, goes on interminably: Aldrich, Astor, Biddle, Booth, Brown, Du Pont, Firestone, Ford, Gardner, Mellon, Morgan, Procter, the Vanderbilt, Whitney. Episcopalians branches of the Baptist Rockefellers and Jewish Guggenheims even appeared on these family trees. p. 176. ISBN 978-1-4696-2698-7.
- ^ Gress, Stephanie (2015). Eagle's Nest: The William K. Vanderbilt II Estate. Arcadia Publishing. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-4671-2332-7.
The Vanderbilt family was of the Episcopal faith.
- ^ Ingham, John N. Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders, Part 4. p. 1501.
- ^ Kobb, Gustav. Staten Island, Volume 14. p. 48.
- ^ Robehmed, Natalie. "The Vanderbilts: How American Royalty Lost Their Crown Jewels". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-02-07.
- ^ Nairn, Alasdair (2002). Engines That Move Markets: Technology Investing from Railroads to the Internet and Beyond. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p. 134. ISBN 0-471-20595-8.
- ^ Tom Miller (March 8, 2011). "The 1891 Margaret Louisa Home - No. 14 East 16th Street". Daytonian in Manhattan. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- ^ "Emily Vanderbilt Hammond, 95, Dies". The New York Times. 1970-02-23. p. 26. Retrieved 2023-02-13.