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Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt Gerry (née Dresser; January 17, 1873 – December 21, 1958) was an American philanthropist and wife of George Washington Vanderbilt II and Peter Goelet Gerry, a United States senator from Rhode Island.
She was the daughter, and only child, [5] of George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914) and Edith Stuyvesant Dresser (1873–1958). [6] Her father, the youngest child of William Henry Vanderbilt and Maria Louisa (née Kissam) Vanderbilt, built a 250-room mansion, the largest privately owned home in the United States, which he named Biltmore ...
George Washington Vanderbilt, John Singer Sargent, 1890 George W. Vanderbilt II was the youngest child of William Henry Vanderbilt and Maria Louisa Kissam. Though there is no evidence to suggest that he referred to himself using a numerical suffix, various sources have called him both George Washington Vanderbilt II and III.
The Vanderbilt family is an American family who gained prominence during the Gilded Age. ... Edith Shepard (1872–1954) Margaret Shepard (1873–1895)
On October 22, 1925, Gerry married Edith Stuyvesant Dresser (1873–1958), the widow of George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914). [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Edith, a daughter of Maj. George Warren Dresser , was the mother of Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (1900–1976), who married John Francis Amherst Cecil , son of Lord William Cecil and Mary Rothes ...
Edith Stuyvesant Dresser (1873–1958), [16] who married Vanderbilt heir George Washington Vanderbilt II, builder of the Biltmore Estate. After his death in 1914, she married Peter Goelet Gerry, a U.S. Senator from Rhode Island. [17] Pauline Georgine Warren Dresser (1876–1975), [18] who married Rev. George Grenville Merrill in December 1897.
William Henry Vanderbilt (May 8, 1821 – December 8, 1885) was an American businessman [1] Known as "Billy", he was the eldest son of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, an heir to his fortune and a prominent member of the Vanderbilt family.
George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil (February 27, 1925 – October 19, 2020) was an American businessman who was the owner and chairman of Biltmore Farms. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Biography