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  1. Alfred Vanderbilt attended the St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and Yale University (Class of 1899), [2] where he was a member of Skull and Bones. [3] Soon after graduation, Vanderbilt, with a party of friends, started on a tour of the world which was to have lasted two years.

  2. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was an accomplished sportsman. He purchased Sagamore in 1901 as a private recreational and entertainment retreat. In the Gilded Age, Adirondack camps were becoming all the rage and the newly married Vanderbilt immediately began expanding and improving the already lavish facilities to better suit his purposes.

  3. Feb 9, 2015 · Word that Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Sr. had gone down with the Lusitania when it was torpedoed by a German U-boat in May of 1915 shocked the staff at Sagamore Lodge, the Vanderbilts' fifteen-hundred-acre Great Camp near Raquette Lake.

  4. Nov 13, 1999 · He was 87. He was born in London and educated at St. Paul's School and Yale, and his grandfather, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, was reputed to be the world's richest man.

  5. But only four years after occupying it, stung by personal and financial reversals, he offered the spread to Alfred Vanderbilt, scion of the New York Central Railroad family, as a honeymoon suite for a marriage that later ended in divorce.

  6. On May 1, 1915, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and his valet Ronald Denyer boarded the RMS Lusitania, one of the most luxurious and comfortable ocean liners of the day, bound from New York City for England. With the war on, Margaret remained in New York City with the children.

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  8. Apr 11, 2012 · Alfred Gwynne (b. 1877): "Social entertainment given or received, was by no means the whole of his career. Mr.

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