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Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Sr. (October 20, 1877 – May 7, 1915) was an American businessman and member of the Vanderbilt family. A sportsman, he participated in and pioneered a number of related endeavors. He died in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
LONDON, Dec. 17. -- Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was married to Mrs. Margaret Emerson McKim by special license this afternoon at Reigate, a small town in Surrey, twenty-five miles from London.
Margaret was heir to the Bromo-Seltzer (started in Baltimore by her father) fortune and married a wealthy Baltimore physician, Dr. McKim. She went to Reno to obtain a divorce, on the grounds of cruelty and failure to provide**, in 1910. She wed fabulously wealthy Alfred Vanderbilt in London in 1911. One source reported that Dr. McKim was on the ...
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt had inherited nearly $43 million in 1899. When he died in 1915, he had managed to shrink the estate to just a little over $26 million. Elsie Vanderbilt, Alfred’s first wife, married Naval officer Paul Fitzsimons in 1919. They resided at the Harborview estate in Newport opposite the Ida Lewis Yacht Club.
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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. While at Yale, he was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society. All of his brothers were Yale alumni. His father co...
On 11 January 1901, Alfred married Miss Elsie French, daughter of the wealthy Francis Ormonde French, and brother of Amos Tuck French, father of Miss Julia Estelle French who married Jack Geraghty, the son of a liveryman. They were married in the Sabriske Memorial Church, Newport, Rhode Island, by Reverend George Brinley Morgan, a cousin of Miss Fr...
Vanderbilt was on his yacht with friend Thomas Slidell when they watched Lusitaniacomplete her maiden voyage to New York in September of 1907. Alfred was a frequent traveler and some years made as many as seven crossings. Vanderbilt’s purpose in traveling on the Lusitania in May 1915 was to direct a meeting of the International Horse Breeders’ Asso...
After the ship was torpedoed, Alfred and his valet Ronald Denyer calmly assisted several women and children to safety. Fellow passenger Oliver Bernard, while searching for Stewart Mason, almost collided with Vanderbilt in the A Deck saloon class entrance. Oliver was surprised by Vanderbilt’s composure, and Oliver would never forget the grin on the ...
Alfred Vanderbilt is a major character in David Butler’s 1983 novel Lusitania. Unlike in actual history, the novel establishes Vanderbilt and Alice Middleton as having a shipboard romance, which leads up to his final gesture of saving her life.
Alfred Vanderbilt at the English Wikipedia Contributors: Randy Bryan Bigham, USA Brian Hawley, USA Jim Kalafus, USA Peter Kelly, Ireland Peter Flagg Maxson (relative of Alfred Vanderbilt), USA Senan Molony, Ireland Michael Poirier, USA Judith Tavares References: Ballard, Dr. Robert and Spencer Dunmore. Exploring the Lusitania. Warner Books, 1995. B...
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Brief Life History of Margaret Mary. Heiress, Socialite, Philanthropist, daughter of the Isaac Emerson and Emelie Askew, her father founded the Emerson Drug Co., makers of Bromo-Seltzer. in 1902 she married Dr. Smith Hollis McKim, they were divorced in 1909. she then married Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt on December 17, 1911. they had two sons ...
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Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Sr. (October 20, 1877 – May 7, 1915) was an extremely wealthy sportsman and a member of the famous Vanderbilt family of philanthropists. He died on the RMS Lusitania. Alfred was born in New York City, the third son of Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843–1899) and Alice Claypoole Gwynne. He attended the St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and at Yale University ...
