The grounds for divorce were allegations of Vanderbilt's adultery. [6] Together, they had three children:[2], Alva later coerced Consuelo into marrying Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough on November 6, 1895. [3], He was the third of eight children born to his parents. The Gilded Age brought with astonishing spending and endless rallies to keep up appearances. William Kissam Vanderbilt II (26 October 1878 – 8 January 1944) was a motor racing enthusiast and yachtsman, and a member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family. By 1922, Vanderbilt had commissioned the construction of a single-story building on his Long Island estate to serve as a public museum, and less than a decade later a second story was added on to accommodate the growing collection. ART BEQUESTS TO THE CITY Fine Old Masterpieces and Bronzes Left to the Metropolitan Museum.$50,000 TO ISLIP CHURCHResidue, After $13,520,000 in Legacies and Trusts, Willed to W.K., Jr., and Harold S.", "PLAN VANDERBILT FUNERAL. When his eldest son, William Kissam Vanderbilt II, entered the employ of the New York Central, in 1903, William K. Sr. withdrew from business and devoted himself to sport; leaving the Vanderbilt railroad interests in the capable hands of Board Chairman, Senator Chauncey M. Depew. His homes included Idle Hour (1900) on Long Island and Marble House (1892), designed by Richard Morris Hunt, in Newport, Rhode Island. A few months later, he was elected president of the New York Central Railroad and acted in this capacity for the remainder of the war. --- wikipedia.org, {{ media.short_title }} In the mid to late 1920s Carl Fisher met William Kissam Vanderbilt II, an avid sportsman and frequent visitor to Miami and Key West. He is Prostrated by Paralysis While Talking to Robert Jarrett, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and Dies Without Speaking. VANDERBILT'S GIFTS. Date of death: 22 Jul 1920. Not long after this, the Vanderbilts divorced and Alva married Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont. Becoming the first suburban automobile commuter, in 1910 Willie began work on the much more elaborate and costly "Eagle's Nest" estate at Centerport, Long Island. All Rights Reserved, This is a BETA experience. © 2020 Forbes Media LLC. New Dorp, Richmond County (Staten Island), New York, USA. William Kissam Vanderbilt I (December 12, 1849 – July 22, 1920[1]) was an American heir, businessman, philanthropist and horsebreeder. In 1910, he began work on the “Eagle’s Nest” estate, a spanish revival style mansion on 43 wooded acres overlooking Northport Harbor, the property contrasted in scale with "Deepdale", Great Neck, Long Island, NY, built in 1902. At age 10, during a stay in the south of France he had ridden in a steam-powered tricycle from Beaulieu-sur-Mer the 7 kilometers to Monte Carlo and as a twenty-year-old, in 1898 he ordered a French De Dion-Bouton motor tricycle and had it shipped to New York. Her second husband died in Switzerland in 1901. Today, the wrought iron gates from a Vanderbilt mansion are now the entrance to a 5-acre conservatory garden in Central Park; Cornelius and Alice Vanderbilt's block-long house in Manhattan's midtown district 57th Street is now occupied by high-end department store Bergdorf Goodman. Major children and living persons must directly contact the, Relationship with Timothy Michael Dowling (Sosa/Ahnentafel #1), Relationship with Anne Harriman Rutherford Sands (spouse), Relationship with Alva Erskine Smith (spouse), , born 17 January 1853 - Mobile, Mobile Co., AL, deceased 26 January 1933 - France aged 80 years old , buried - Woodlawn Cem., Bronx, NY, Sources: Dowling Family Tree - Tim Dowling - rootsweb, 2001-2015 - - electronic - I55077, Burial - Moravian Cem., New Dorp, Staten Island, NY, List of all individuals in the family tree, John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, Deceased 22 July 1920 - Paris, Seine, France, Her second husband had died in Switzerland in 1901. In 1931, Vanderbilt had the Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel, Germany, build for him the 264-foot diesel yacht Alva. Second son of William Henry Vanderbilt (1821-1885), and Maria Louisa Kissam Vanderbilt (1821-1896). all related! Among the horses he owned was the U.S. View William Vanderbilt's Family Tree and History, Ancestry and Genealogy. William Kissam Vanderbilt II (1878-1944); Harold Stirling Vanderbilt (1884-1970). In 1904, Willie K. sponsored the first Vanderbilt Cup Race, for motor cars at Long Island. CHILDREN AT HIS BEDSIDE Duchess of Marlborough and Her Brothers Present with Financier's Widow. Willie was educated by tutors and at St. Mark's School. The Vanderbilt Cup auto races repeatedly had crowd control problems and at the 1906 race a spectator was killed. In 1896, he built the American Horse Exchange at 50th Street (Manhattan) and Broadway. William Kissam Vanderbilt died in Paris, France in 1920. Of Heart Disease", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Kissam_Vanderbilt_II&oldid=972032277, American railroad executives of the 20th century, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 9 August 2020, at 19:55. Arriving on Long Island, the Vanderbilts decided to build a country retreat at Lake Success and built a modest, by Vanderbilt standards, colonial-style home on the hilltop at Lake Success and called his new estate Deepdale. Divorce proceedings were handled by his New York lawyers while he and Rosamund Lancaster Warburton (1897–1947), a former wife of Barclay Harding Warburton II, an heir to the John Wanamaker department store fortune, waited discreetly away from the media at a home in the Parisian suburb of Passy, France. William Kissam Vanderbilt died in Paris, France on July 22, 1920. His brother, Cornelius "Neily" Vanderbilt III spent vast sums on maintaining a high society appearance. After the death of his brother Cornelius Vanderbilt II in 1899 he was generally regarded as head of the Vanderbilt family. The fortune had dwindled by the time William K. Vanderbilt II died in 1944. the legendary 250 foot Eagle yacht swapped in 1925 by William K. Vanderbilt II for Carl Fisher's island. millier GeneaStars. The Alva was converted to a gunboat and commissioned as the USS Plymouth (PG-57) on December 29, 1941. New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. William Vanderbilt mentioned in the record of William Vanderbilt and Alva Smith Name William Vanderbilt Event Type Marriage Event Date 20 Apr 1875 Event Place Manhattan, New York, New York, United States Event Place (Original) Manhattan, New York Gender Male Age 25 Birth Year (Estimated) 1850 Birthplace Staten Island, NY Father's Name William Henryt Vanderbilt Mother's Name Maria Louoiea Kissam Spouse's Name Alva Smith Spouse's Gender Female Spouse's Age 22 Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated) 1853 Spouse's Birthplace Mobile, Alabama Spouse's Father's Name Murray Forbes Smith Spouse's Mother's Name Phoebe Ann De Sha Citing this Record "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:249L-BBS : 20 March 2015), William Vanderbilt and Alva Smith, 20 Apr 1875; citing Marriage, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, New York City Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,562,053.