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- Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly (née Vanderbilt; January 8, 1854 – April 11, 1952) was an American socialite and heiress. She was a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family.
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Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly (née Vanderbilt; January 8, 1854 – April 11, 1952) was an American socialite and heiress. She was a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family. She and her husband Hamilton McKown Twombly built Florham, a gilded age estate in Madison, New Jersey.
The Vanderbilt family is an American family who gained prominence during the Gilded Age. Their success began with the shipping and railroad empires of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the family expanded into various other areas of industry and philanthropy.
Jul 5, 2017 · The Newport Cottages of Vanderbilt siblings Cornelius, William K, Frederick and Florence Twombly are widely known, playing a large role in shaping people’s perception of life there in the Gilded Age (and rightly so).
Feb 24, 2011 · One forever associates the Vanderbilts with Newport and the opulence they created there. However, many of the family preferred the (relatively) simple pleasures of Bar Harbor, the Maine resort once considered second only to Newport. Patriarch William Henry Vanderbilt first took the family up to Maine in the early 1880s.
Florham is a former Vanderbilt estate that is located in Madison and Florham Park, New Jersey. It was built during the 1890s for Hamilton McKown Twombly and his wife, Florence Adele Vanderbilt, a member of the Vanderbilt family.
Sep 13, 2016 · Florence Adele Vanderbilt, the second eldest sister, was married to Hamilton McKown Twombly, who left her significantly richer than most of her relatives when he died in 1910 (no small feat). Of their four children, two, a son and daughter, died tragically in their teens.
Sep 30, 2016 · Vivacious Emily Vanderbilt Sloane (later White), while neither as imperious nor as immensely rich as her older sister Florence, more than held her own in New York Society where she was acknowledged as one of the leaders of the Four Hundred.
