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'{{Short description|Prominent American family}} {{overly detailed|date=February 2023}} {{Infobox Family | name = Vanderbilt family | image = {{multiple image |align=left |direction=horizontal |image1= Cornelius Vanderbilt three-quarter view (cropped).jpg |width1=97 |caption1='''Cornelius Vanderbilt''' |image2=W.K. Vanderbilt LCCN2014685935 (3) (cropped).jpg |width2=99 |caption2= '''William Kissam Vanderbilt''' |image3=Governor of Rhode Island. Washington, D.C., LCCN2016877246 (cropped)(3).jpg |width3=105 |caption3='''William Henry Vanderbilt III''' }} | region = [[United States East Coast]] | early_forms = Van der Bilt, van Derbilt | origin = [[De Bilt]], [[Netherlands]] | otherfamilies = [[Marquess of Exeter#History|Cecil family]]<br>[[Whitney family]] | distinctions = | heirlooms = | estate = [[Vanderbilt houses]] | meaning = ''Van der Bilt'' ("from [[de Bilt]]") | footnotes = }} [[File:Vanderbilt family 1874.jpg|thumb|Painting of the Vanderbilt family, 1874]] The '''Vanderbilt family''' is an American family who gained prominence during the [[Gilded Age]]. Their success began with the shipping and railroad empires in the university of niggerton in the state of Georgia where all the black niggers stayed of [[Cornelius Vanderbilt]], and the family expanded into various other areas of industry and philanthropy. Cornelius Vanderbilt's descendants went on to build grand mansions on [[Fifth Avenue]] in [[New York City]]; luxurious "summer cottages" in [[Newport, Rhode Island|Newport]], Rhode Island; the palatial [[Biltmore House]] in [[Asheville, North Carolina|Asheville]], North Carolina; and [[Vanderbilt houses|various other opulent homes]]. The family also built [[Berkshire Cottages|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 [[List of richest Americans in history|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".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/24/books/more-money-than-anyone-else.html|work=The New York Times| title= Review of ''Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt''|date=September 24, 1989 |url-access=limited}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt |url=https://archive.org/details/fortuneschildren01vand |url-access=registration |last=Vanderbilt |first=Arthur T., II |year=1989 |publisher=Morrow |location=New York |isbn=0-688-07279-8 }}</ref> Branches of the family are found on the [[United States East Coast]]. Contemporary descendants include American art historian [[John Wilmerding]], journalist [[Anderson Cooper]], actor [[Timothy Olyphant]], musician [[John P. Hammond]], screenwriter [[James Vanderbilt]], and the [[James Spencer-Churchill, 12th Duke of Marlborough|Duke of Marlborough]]. == History == The progenitor of the Vanderbilt family was Jan Aertszoon or Aertson (1620–1705), a Dutch farmer from the village of [[De Bilt]] in [[Utrecht (province)|Utrecht]], [[Netherlands]], who emigrated to the Dutch colony of [[New Netherland]] as an [[indentured servant]] to the [[Wolphert Gerretse|Van Kouwenhoven family]] in 1650.<ref>Dorothy Kelly MacDowell. ''Commodore Vanderbilt and his family: a biographical account of the Descendants of Cornelius and Sophia Johnson Vanderbilt''. 1989. University of Wisconsin</ref><ref>{{cite book |chapter=Chapter 6 - The Colonies' first revolt |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sb40EosBr90C&pg=PT70 |title=American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America |first=Colin |last=Woodard |publisher=Penguin |date=September 29, 2011 |access-date=13 May 2017 |isbn=9781101544457}}</ref> 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 [[Nederland's Patriciaat|patrician]] Van der Bilt.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://194.171.109.12/download/cbg_patriciaat_lijst.pdf |title=Nederland's Patriciaat: Lijst van geslachten opgenomen in de jaargangen 1 (1910) t/m 91 (2012) |language=nl |trans-title=List of Dutch patrician families in the Nederland's Patriciaat 1910–2007/2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091340/http://www.cbg.nl/download/cbg_patriciaat_lijst.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-04}}</ref> [[File:The Breakers Newport.jpg|thumb|[[The Breakers]], built in 1892–1895 for [[Cornelius Vanderbilt II]], [[Newport, Rhode Island]]]] 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, New York|Staten Island]] family of modest means. Through his paternal great-great grandmother, Abigail Southard, he descends from [[Republic of Salé]] 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,<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G3qSTNdp1t0C&pg=PA150 |title=Origins of the Black Atlantic |first1=Laurent |last1=Dubois |first2=Julius S. |last2=Scott |publisher=Routledge |date=Jan 11, 2013 |page=150 |isbn=9781136096341}}</ref> as his mother was of [[Berbers|Berber]] origin from [[Cartagena, Spain|Cartagena]] in the [[Kingdom of Murcia]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/secret/famous/vansallees.html |title=The Van Salee Family|work=Frontline|publisher=PBS|access-date= March 29, 2014}}</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/2013JanAndAnthonyJansenPublic "Jan Jansen van Haarlem and Anthony Jansen van Salee"], Brian A. Smith. Washington D.C. 2013</ref> Cornelius Vanderbilt left school at age 11 and went on to build a [[Merchant navy|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]]. [[File:Vanderbilt Mansion - IMG 7939.JPG|thumb|right|[[Frederick William Vanderbilt]]'s home, now known as the [[Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site]], [[Hyde Park, New York]].]] While many Vanderbilt family members had joined the [[Episcopal Church (USA)|Episcopal Church]],<ref name="THE EPISCOPALIANS">{{cite news| first=B. Drummond Jr. | last=Ayres| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/28/us/the-episcopalians-an-american-elite-with-roots-going-back-to-jamestown.html| title=The Episcopalians: An American Elite With Roots Going Back To Jamestown| newspaper=The New York Times| date=2011-12-19| access-date=2012-08-17| archive-date=July 14, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714144740/http://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/28/us/the-episcopalians-an-american-elite-with-roots-going-back-to-jamestown.html| url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Religion, Art, and Money: Episcopalians and American Culture from the Civil War to the Great Depression|first=Peter|last= W. Williams|year= 2016| isbn= 9781469626987| page =176|publisher=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.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Eagle's Nest: The William K. Vanderbilt II Estate|first=Stephanie|last= Gress|year= 2015| isbn= 9781467123327| page =89|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|quote=The Vanderbilt family was of the Episcopal faith.}}</ref> [[Cornelius Vanderbilt]] remained a member of the [[Moravian Church]] to his death.<ref>{{cite book| title=Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders, Part 4| first=John N.| last=Ingham| page=1501}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| title=Staten Island, Volume 14| first=Gustav| last=Kobb| page=48}}</ref> [[File:Vanderbilt Mausoleum (edit).jpg|thumb|The [[Vanderbilt Family Cemetery and Mausoleum|Vanderbilt mausoleum]] at the [[Moravian Cemetery]] in [[New Dorp, Staten Island|New Dorp]], [[Staten Island]], New York]] 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 [[Vanderbilt houses|mansions]]. Shortly before his death in 1877, Vanderbilt donated [[US dollar|US$]]1 million (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|1|1877}}&nbsp;million in {{Inflation/year|US}}) for the establishment of [[Vanderbilt University]] in [[Nashville, Tennessee|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 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 (Manhattan)|57th Street]], containing approximately 154 rooms, designed by [[George B. Post]]. He also built [[The Breakers]] in [[Newport, Rhode Island|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 {{convert|125000|acre|ha|abbr=on}} near [[Asheville, North Carolina|Asheville]], North Carolina. The 250 room mansion, with {{convert|175856|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} of floor space, is the [[list of largest houses in the United States|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]] (1877–1915), was a passenger on the [[RMS Lusitania|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 Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr.|Alfred Jr.]] became a noted horse breeder and racing elder. *William Kissam Vanderbilt's son [[Harold Stirling Vanderbilt]] (1884–1970) gained fame as a sportsman. He invented the [[Contract bridge|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 Vanderbilt II|William Kissam "Willie K" Vanderbilt II]] launched the [[Vanderbilt Cup]] for [[auto racing]]. *Cornelius Vanderbilt II's granddaughter [[Gloria Vanderbilt]] (1924–2019) 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 {{convert|45|acre|ha|abbr=on}} of property to the [[Moravian Cemetery|Moravian Church and Cemetery]] at [[New Dorp]] on [[Staten Island, New York|Staten Island]], New York. Later, his son [[William Henry Vanderbilt]] donated a further {{convert|4|acre|ha|abbr=on}}. The [[Vanderbilt Family Cemetery and Mausoleum|Vanderbilt Family Mausoleum]] was designed in 1885 by [[architect]] [[Richard Morris Hunt]] and landscaped by [[Frederick Law Olmsted]]. == Vanderbilt family tree == {{unreferenced section|date=June 2019}} {{Tree list}} * [[Cornelius Vanderbilt]] (1794–1877) ** [[William Henry Vanderbilt]] (1821–1885) *** [[Cornelius Vanderbilt II]] (1843–1899) **** Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt (1869–1874) **** William Henry Vanderbilt II (1870–1892) **** [[Cornelius Vanderbilt III]] (1873–1942) *****{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Cornelius Vanderbilt IV]] (1898–1974) **** [[Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney|Gertrude Vanderbilt]] (1875–1942) ***** [[Flora Payne Whitney]] (1897–1986) ****** Pamela Tower (1921–2013) *******{{Tree list/final branch}} [[John LeBoutillier]] (born 1953) ******{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Whitney Tower]] (1923–1999) ******{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Flora Miller Biddle]] (born 1928) *****Barbara Whitney (1903–1983) *****[[Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney]] (1899–1992) **** [[Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt]] (1877–1915) ***** [[William Henry Vanderbilt III|Governor William Henry Vanderbilt III]] (1901–1981) ***** [[Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr.]] (1912–1999) ******{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt III]] (born 1949) *******{{Tree list/final branch}} [[James Vanderbilt|James Platten Vanderbilt]] (born 1975) *****{{Tree list/final branch}} [[George Washington Vanderbilt III]] (1914–1961) **** [[Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt]] (1880–1925) *****{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Cathleen Vanderbilt]] (1904–1944) *****{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Gloria Vanderbilt|Gloria Laura Vanderbilt]] (1924–2019) ****** Leopold Stanislaus "Stan" Stokowski (born 1950) ****** Christopher Stokowski (born 1952) ****** Carter Vanderbilt Cooper (1965–1988) ******{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Anderson Cooper|Anderson Hays Cooper]] (born 1967) *******{{Tree list/final branch}} Wyatt Morgan Cooper (born 2020) *******{{Tree list/final branch}} Sebastian Luke Maisani-Cooper (born 2022) ****{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi|Gladys Moore Vanderbilt]] (1886–1965) ***** Countess Cornelia "Gilia" Széchényi (1908–1958) ***** Countess Alice "Ai" Széchényi (1911–1974) *****{{Tree list/final branch}} Countess Gladys Széchényi (1913–1978) ******{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Christopher Denys Stormont Finch-Hatton, 16th Earl of Winchilsea]] (1936–1999) *******{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Daniel Finch-Hatton, 17th Earl of Winchilsea]] (born 1967) ********{{Tree list/final branch}} Tobias Finch-Hatton, Viscount Maidstone (born 1998) ***** Countess Sylvia Anita Gabriel Denise Irene Marie "Sylvie" Széchényi (1918–1998) ***** Countess Ferdinandine "Bubby" Széchényi (1923–2016) *** [[Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard|Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt]] (1845–1924) **** Florence Shepard (1869–1869) **** Maria Louise Shepard (1870–1948) **** Edith Shepard (1872–1954) **** Margaret Shepard (1873–1895) **** [[Alice Vanderbilt Morris|Alice Louise Vanderbilt Shepard]] (1874–1950) ***** Dave Hennen Morris Jr. (1900–1975) ***** Louise Morris (1901–1976) ***** Lawrence Morris (1903–1967) ***** Noel Morris (1904–1928) ***** Emily Hammond Morris (1907–1995) ***** Alice Vanderbilt Morris (1911–1986) ****{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Elliott Shepard|Elliott Fitch Shepard Jr.]] (1876–1927) *** [[William Kissam Vanderbilt]] (1849–1920) **** [[Consuelo Vanderbilt]] (1877–1964) ***** [[John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough]] (1897–1972) ****** [[John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough]] (1926–2014) ******* [[James Spencer-Churchill, 12th Duke of Marlborough|Charles James Spencer-Churchill, 12th Duke of Marlborough]] (born 1955) ******** [[George Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford|George John Godolphin Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford]] (born 1992) *******{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill|Lady Henrietta Mary Spencer-Churchill]] (born 1958) ******{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Lady Rosemary Spencer-Churchill]] (born 1929) *****{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill]] (1898–1956) **** [[William Kissam Vanderbilt II]] (1878–1944) *****{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Muriel Vanderbilt]] (1900–1972) ****{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Harold Stirling Vanderbilt]] (1884–1970) *** [[Emily Thorn Vanderbilt]] (1850–1946) **** Florence Adele Sloane (1873–1960) *****{{Tree list/final branch}} [[James A. Burden III]] (1897–1979) *****{{Tree list/final branch}} [[William Douglas Burden]] (1898–1978) ****** Katharine Sage Burden (born 1927) *******{{Tree list/final branch}} {{Tree list/final branch}} [[Sage Sohier|Katharine Sage Sohier]] (born 1954) ******{{Tree list/final branch}} Andrew White Burden (born 1935) *******{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Doug Burden|William Douglas Burden III]] (born 1965) **** [[Emily Vanderbilt Sloane]] (1874–1970) ***** Adele Sloane Hammond (1902–1998) ******{{Tree list/final branch}} John Vernon Bevan Olyphant (born 1941) *******{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Timothy Olyphant|Timothy David Olyphant]] (born 1968) *****{{Tree list/final branch}} [[John Hammond (record producer)|John Henry Hammond Jr.]] (1910–1987) ******{{Tree list/final branch}} [[John P. Hammond|John Paul Hammond]] (born 1942) ****{{Tree list/final branch}} Lila Vanderbilt Sloane (1878–1934) *****{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Frederick Vanderbilt Field]] (1905–2000) *** [[Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly|Florence Adele Vanderbilt]] (1854–1952) **** Alice Twombly (1879–1896) **** Florence Vanderbilt Twombly (1881–1969) ***** Alice Twombly Burden (1905–1905) ***** [[William A. M. Burden|William Armistead Moale Burden]] (1906–1984) ***** [[Shirley Burden|Shirley Carter Burden]] (1908–1989) ****** [[Carter Burden|Shirley Carter Burden Jr.]] (1941–1996) **** Ruth Twombly (1884–1954) **** Hamilton McKown Twombly Jr. (1887–1906) *** [[Frederick William Vanderbilt]] (1856–1938) *** [[Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt Webb|Eliza "Lila" Osgood Vanderbilt]] (1860–1936) ****{{Tree list/final branch}} [[James Watson Webb II]] (1884–1960) ***** Lila Vanderbilt Webb (1913–1961) ******{{Tree list/final branch}} [[John Wilmerding|John Currie Wilmerding Jr.]] (born 1938) *****{{Tree list/final branch}} [[J. Watson Webb Jr.|James Watson Webb III]] (1916–2000) **** William Seward Webb Jr. (1887–1956) **** Vanderbilt Webb (1891–1956) ***{{Tree list/final branch}} [[George Washington Vanderbilt II]] (1862–1914) ****{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt]] (1900–1976) ***** [[George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil]] (1925–2020) *****{{Tree list/final branch}} [[William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil]] (1928–2017) ** Emily Almira Vanderbilt (1823–1896) *** [[William Knapp Thorn]] (1851–1911) ***{{Tree list/final branch}} Caroline Roberts Thorn (1858–1949) ****{{Tree list/final branch}} Jeannette Thorn Kissel (1889–1957) ***** Aline Thorn Pease (1919-2010) ******{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Peter Mackay, 4th Earl of Inchcape|Kenneth Peter Lyle Mackay, 4th Earl of Inchcape]] (born 1943) ***** [[Sir Richard Pease, 3rd Baronet|Richard Thorn Pease, 3rd Baronet]] (1922–2021) ****** [[Sir Richard Pease, 4th Baronet|Richard Peter Pease, 4th Baronet]] (born 1958) ******{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Nichola Pease]] (born 1961) *****{{Tree list/final branch}} Derrick Alix Pease (1927–1998) ******{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Jonathan Pease|Jonathan Edward Pease]] (born 1952) **{{Tree list/final branch}} [[Cornelius Jeremiah Vanderbilt]] (1830–1882) {{Tree list/end}} == Cornelius Vanderbilt and his descendants (by year of birth) == <!--this list is for members who have a Wikipedia article about them--> #[[Cornelius Vanderbilt]] (1794–1877), 1st generation #[[William Henry Vanderbilt]] (1821–1885), 2nd generation, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[Cornelius Jeremiah Vanderbilt]] (1830–1882), 2nd generation, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[Cornelius Vanderbilt II]] (1843–1899), 3rd generation, grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard|Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt]] (1845–1924), 3rd generation, granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[William Kissam Vanderbilt]] (1849–1920), 3rd generation, grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[Emily Thorn Vanderbilt]] (1850–1946), 3rd generation, granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[William Knapp Thorn]] (1851–1911), 3rd generation, grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly|Florence Adele Vanderbilt]] (1854–1952), 3rd generation, granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[Frederick William Vanderbilt]] (1856–1938), 3rd generation, grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt Webb|Eliza "Lila" Osgood Vanderbilt]] (1860–1936), 3rd generation, granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[George Washington Vanderbilt II]] (1862–1914), 3rd generation, grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[Cornelius Vanderbilt III]] (1873–1942), 4th generation, great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[Emily Vanderbilt Sloane]] (1874–1970), 4th generation, great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[Alice Vanderbilt Morris|Alice Louise Vanderbilt Shepard]] (1874–1950), 4th generation, great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney|Gertrude Vanderbilt]] (1875–1942), 4th generation, great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[Elliott Shepard|Elliott Fitch Shepard Jr.]] (1876–1927), 4th generation, great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt]] (1877–1915), 4th generation, great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[Consuelo Vanderbilt]] (1877–1964), 4th generation, great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[William Kissam Vanderbilt II]] (1878–1944), 4th generation, great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt]] (1880–1925), 4th generation, great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[James Watson Webb II]] (1884–1960), 4th generation, great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[Harold Stirling Vanderbilt]] (1884–1970), 4th generation, great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi|Gladys Moore Vanderbilt]] (1886–1965), 4th generation, great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[Flora Payne Whitney]] (1897–1986), 5th generation, great-great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough]] (1897–1972), 5th generation, great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[Cornelius Vanderbilt IV]] (1898–1974), 5th generation, great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[William Douglas Burden]] (1898–1978), 5th generation, great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill]] (1898–1956), 5th generation, great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney]] (1899–1992), 5th generation, great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[Muriel Vanderbilt]] (1900–1972), 5th generation, great-great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt]] (1900–1976), 4th generation, great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[William Henry Vanderbilt III|Governor William Henry Vanderbilt III]] (1901–1981) #[[Cathleen Vanderbilt|Mary Cathleen Vanderbilt]] (1904–1944) #[[Frederick Vanderbilt Field]] (1905–2000) #[[William A. M. Burden|William Armistead Moale Burden II]] (1906–1984) #[[Shirley Burden|Shirley Carter Burden]] (1908–1989), 5th generation, great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[John Hammond (record producer)|John Henry Hammond Jr.]] (1910–1987), 5th generation, great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr.]] (1912–1999), 5th generation, great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[George Washington Vanderbilt III]] (1914–1961), 5th generation, great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt #[[J. Watson Webb Jr.|James Watson Webb III]] (1916–2000) #[[Sir Richard Pease, 3rd Baronet|Sir Richard Thorn Pease, 3rd Baronet]] (1922–2021) #[[Whitney Tower]] (1923–1999) #[[Gloria Vanderbilt|Gloria Laura Vanderbilt]] (1924–2019) #[[George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil]] (1925–2020) #[[John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough]] (1926–2014), 6th generation (3 × great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt) #[[William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil]] (1928–2017) #[[Flora Miller Biddle]] (born 1928) #[[Lady Rosemary Spencer-Churchill]] (born 1929) #[[Christopher Finch-Hatton, 16th Earl of Winchilsea|Christopher Denys Stormont Finch-Hatton, 16th Earl of Winchilsea]] (1936–1999), 6th generation (3 × great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt) #[[John Wilmerding]] (born 1938), 6th generation (3 × great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt) #[[Carter Burden|Shirley Carter Burden Jr.]] (1941–1996), 6th generation (3 × great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt) #[[John P. Hammond|John Paul Hammond]] (born 1942), 6th generation (3 × great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt) #[[Peter Mackay, 4th Earl of Inchcape|Kenneth Peter Lyle Mackay, 4th Earl of Inchcape]] (born 1943), 6th generation (3 × great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt) #[[Jonathan Pease|Jonathan Edward Pease]] (born 1952), 6th generation (3 × great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt) #[[John LeBoutillier]] (born 1953), 7th generation (4 × great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt) #[[Sage Sohier]] (born 1954), 7th generation (4 × great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt) #[[James Spencer-Churchill, 12th Duke of Marlborough|Charles James Spencer-Churchill, 12th Duke of Marlborough]] (born 1955), 7th generation (4 × great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt) #[[Sir Richard Pease, 4th Baronet|Sir Richard Peter Pease, 4th Baronet]] (born 1958), 6th generation (3 × great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt) #[[Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill|Lady Henrietta Mary Spencer-Churchill]] (born 1958), 7th generation (4 × great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt) #[[Nichola Pease]] (born 1961), 6th generation (3 × great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt) #[[Doug Burden|William Douglas Burden III]] (born 1965), 7th generation (4 × great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt) #[[Anderson Cooper|Anderson Hays Cooper]] (born 1967), 6th generation (3 × great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt) #[[Daniel Finch-Hatton, 17th Earl of Winchilsea]] (born 1967), 7th generation (4 × great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt) #[[Timothy Olyphant|Timothy David Olyphant]] (born 1968), 7th generation (4 × great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt) #[[James Vanderbilt|James Platten Vanderbilt]] (born 1975), 7th generation (4 × great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt) #[[George Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford|George John Godolphin Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford]] (born 1992), 8th generation (5 × great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt) == Other Vanderbilt descendants, but not of Cornelius Vanderbilt == #[[Amy Vanderbilt]] (1908–1974) &mdash; 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)== #[[Horace F. Clark]] (1815–1873): 1st husband of Maria Louisa Vanderbilt #[[Nicholas B. La Bau]] (1823–1873): 1st husband of Mary Alicia Vanderbilt #[[Elliott Fitch Shepard]] (1833–1893): husband of [[Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard]] #[[Frank Armstrong Crawford Vanderbilt]] (1839–1885): 2nd wife of [[Cornelius Vanderbilt]] #[[William Douglas Sloane]] (1844–1915): 1st husband of [[Emily Thorn Vanderbilt]] #[[Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt]] (1845–1934): wife of [[Cornelius Vanderbilt II]] #[[Hamilton McKown Twombly]] (1849–1910): husband of [[Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly]] #[[Henry White (diplomat)|Henry White]] (1850–1927): 2nd husband of Emily Thorn Vanderbilt #[[William Seward Webb]] (1851–1926): husband of [[Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt Webb]] #[[Alva Belmont]] (1853–1933): 1st wife of [[William Kissam Vanderbilt]] #[[Louise Vanderbilt]] (1854–1926): wife of [[Frederick William Vanderbilt]] #[[Anne Harriman Vanderbilt]] (1861–1940): 2nd wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt #[[Richard M. Tobin]] (1866–1952): 2nd husband of Florence Adele Sloane #[[Jacques Balsan]] (1868–1956): 2nd husband of [[Consuelo Vanderbilt]] #[[Grace Vanderbilt]] (1870–1953): wife of [[Cornelius Vanderbilt III]] #[[James A. Burden Jr.]] (1871–1932): 1st husband of Florence Adele Sloane #[[Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough]] (1871–1934): 1st husband of Consuelo Vanderbilt #[[Dave Hennen Morris]] (1872–1944): husband of [[Alice Vanderbilt Morris]] #[[Harry Payne Whitney]] (1872–1930): husband of [[Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney]] #[[Edith Stuyvesant Gerry]] (1873–1958): wife of [[George Washington Vanderbilt II]] #[[Virginia Fair Vanderbilt]] (1875–1935): 1st wife of [[William Kissam Vanderbilt II]] #[[George G. McMurtry]] (1876–1958): 4th husband of Teresa Sarah Margaret Fabbri #[[László Széchenyi]] (1879–1938): husband of [[Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi]] #[[Ralph Pulitzer]] (1879–1939): 1st husband of Frederica Vanderbilt Webb #[[Leopold Stokowski]] (1882–1977): 2nd husband of [[Gloria Vanderbilt]] #[[Electra Havemeyer Webb]] (1888–1960): wife of [[James Watson Webb II]] #[[Frederick Osborn]] (1889–1981): husband of Margaret Louisa Schieffelin #[[John Francis Amherst Cecil]] (1890–1954): 1st husband of [[Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt]] #[[Vivian Francis Bulkeley-Johnson]] (1891–1968): 2nd husband of Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt #[[Aileen Osborn Webb]] (1892–1979): wife of Vanderbilt Webb #[[Frederic Cameron Church Jr.]] (1897–1983): 1st husband of [[Muriel Vanderbilt]] #[[John J. Emery]] (1898–1976): 2nd husband of Adele Sloane Hammond #[[Jack Speiden]] (1900–1970): 2nd husband of Rachel Hammond #[[Arthur Duckworth]] (1901–1986): 1st husband of Alice Frances Hammond #[[Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt]] (1901–1978): wife of [[Harold Stirling Vanderbilt]] #[[Marie Norton Harriman]] (1903–1970): 1st wife of [[Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney]] #[[Charles Bosanquet (academic)|Charles Bosanquet]] (1903–1986): husband of Barbara Schieffelin #[[Earl E. T. Smith]] (1903–1991): 1st husband of Consuelo Vanderbilt Earl #[[Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt]] (1904–1965): 2nd wife of [[Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt]] #[[Dunbar Bostwick]] (1908–2006): husband of Electra Webb #[[George W. Headley]] (1908–1985): 3rd husband of Barbara Vanderbilt Whitney #[[Eleanor Searle]] (1908–2002): 3rd wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney #[[Pat DiCicco]] (1909–1978): 1st husband of Gloria Vanderbilt #[[Benny Goodman]] (1909–1986): 2nd husband of Alice Frances Hammond #[[Edward P. Morgan]] (1910–1993): 2nd husband of Katharine Sage Burden #[[Christopher Finch-Hatton, 15th Earl of Winchilsea]] (1911–1950): 1st husband of Countess Gladys Széchényi #[[Edwin F. Russell]] (1914–2001): 1st husband of Lady Sarah Consuelo Spencer-Churchill #[[Laura Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough]] (1915–1990): 2nd wife of [[John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough]] #[[Louis Auchincloss]] (1917–2010): husband of Adele Burden Lawrence #[[Kenneth James William Mackay, 3rd Earl of Inchcape]] (1917–1994): 2nd husband of Aline Thorn Pease #[[Orin Lehman]] (1920–2008): husband of Wendy Vanderbilt #[[Edwin D. Morgan (businessman)|Edwin D. Morgan]] (1921–2001): 1st husband of Nancy Marie Whitney #[[Charles Scribner IV]] (1921–1995): husband of Jeanette "Joan" Kissel Sunderland #[[Stanley Schachter]] (1922–1997): husband of Sophia Duckworth #[[Sidney Lumet]] (1924–2011): 3rd husband of Gloria Vanderbilt #[[Marylou Whitney]] (1925–2019): 4th wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney #[[Wyatt Emory Cooper]] (1927–1978): 4th husband of Gloria Vanderbilt #[[Tina Onassis Niarchos]] (1929–1974): 2nd wife of [[John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough]] #Mary Lee Ryan (1931–2017): 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]] ==Network== ===Associates=== {{colbegin|colwidth=23em}} *[[Horace Henry Baxter]] *[[August Belmont Jr.]] *[[Samuel R. Callaway]] *[[Chauncey Depew]] *[[Daniel Drew]] *[[Melville E. Ingalls]] *[[Oroondates Mauran]] *[[Holland Nimmons McTyeire]] *[[Richard Morris Hunt]] *[[Augustus Schell]] *[[Carl A. Schenck]] *[[T. F. Secor]] *[[Winnaretta Singer]] *[[Alfred Holland Smith]] *[[Amasa Stone]] {{colend}} ===Businesses=== {{colbegin|colwidth=24em}} *[[Allaire Iron Works]] *[[Beech Creek Railroad]] *[[Big Four Railroad]] *[[Biltmore Farms|Biltmore Farms Company]] *[[Canada Southern Railway]] *[[Chesapeake and Ohio Railway]] *[[Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley & Pittsburgh Railroad]] *[[Fort Wayne and Jackson Railroad]] *[[Hudbay#Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Co.|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 & Ogdensburg Railroad]] *[[Rutland Railroad]] *[[William Henry Vanderbilt III#The Short Line|The Short Line]] *[[Staten Island Ferry]] *[[Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway]] *[[Vanderbilt Hotel]] *[[West Shore Railroad]] {{colend}} ===Philanthropy & miscellaneous nonprofits=== {{colbegin|colwidth=23em}} *[[American Women's War Relief Fund]] *[[Biltmore Forest School]] *[[Foch Hospital]] *[[International Auxiliary Language Association]] *[[Jockey Club (United States)|The Jockey Club]] *''Margaret Louisa Home''<ref>{{cite web |author1=Tom Miller |title=The 1891 Margaret Louisa Home - No. 14 East 16th Street |url=http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2011/03/1891-margaret-louisa-home-no-14-east.html |website=Daytonian in Manhattan |access-date=8 April 2020 |date=March 8, 2011}}</ref> *[[Metropolitan Opera]] *''Parents' League of New York''<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=1970-02-23 |title=Emily Vanderbilt Hammond, 95, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/23/archives/emily-vanderbilt-hammond-95-dies.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |location= |access-date=2023-02-13 |page=26}}</ref> *[[Scarborough Historic District#Scarborough Presbyterian Church|Scarborough Presbyterian Church]] *[[Sleepy Hollow Country Club]] *[[Sloane Hospital for Women]] *[[Vanderbilt Cup]] *[[American Fine Arts Society#Founding and construction|Vanderbilt Gallery (American Fine Arts Society)]] *[[Presbyterian Hospital (New York City)|Vanderbilt Clinic (Presbyterian Hospital)]] *[[Vanderbilt University]] {{colend}} ==Buildings, estates & historic sites== {{colbegin|colwidth=23em}} *[[Biltmore Estate]] *[[The Breakers]] *[[Cathedral of All Souls (Asheville, North Carolina)]] *[[Cornelius Vanderbilt II House]] *[[Florham]] *[[Howard Mansion and Carriage House]] *[[Idle Hour]] *[[Marble House]] *[[Pine Tree Point]] *[[Radisson Blu Edwardian Vanderbilt Hotel]] *[[Rough Point]] *[[Sagamore Farm]] *[[Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site|Hyde Park Mansion]] *[[Vanderbilt Family Cemetery and Mausoleum]] *[[Vanderbilt Triple Palace]] *[[William K. Vanderbilt House]] {{colend}} == See also == {{Commons category|Vanderbilt family}} * [[Vanderbilt (surname)]] * [[Nate Archibald (Gossip Girl)]], fictional Vanderbilt descendant * [[Du Pont family]] * [[Rockefeller family]] * [[Rothschild family]] == References == {{Reflist|30em}}<!--added under references heading by script-assisted edit--> {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Vanderbilt Family}} [[Category:Vanderbilt family| ]] [[Category:American railway entrepreneurs]] [[Category:American families of Dutch ancestry]] [[Category:Noble families]] [[Category:Business families of the United States]] [[Category:Family trees]] [[Category:Episcopalian families]] [[Category:Dutch families]] [[Category:17th-century Dutch emigrants to North America]]'