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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.
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.
Nov 13, 1999 · Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, the elegant symbol of the sportsman in high society when he was the impresario of horse racing and the pillar of one of the most aristocratic families in America,...
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.
Apr 11, 2012 · Alfred Gwynne (b. 1877): "Social entertainment given or received, was by no means the whole of his career. Mr.
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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May 7, 2015 · Alfred Vanderbilt, Yale College Class of 1889, might have considered himself to be a lucky man when he made the life-saving decision to cancel his trip on the Titanic — until, that is, he booked a ticket for a spring 1915 trip on the Lusitania. By Bess Connolly. May 7, 2015.