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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. [1]
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.
Edith Stuyvesant Gerry (1873–1958): wife of George Washington Vanderbilt II; Virginia Fair Vanderbilt (1875–1935): 1st wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt II; George G. McMurtry (1876–1958): 4th husband of Teresa Sarah Margaret Fabbri; László Széchenyi (1879–1938): husband of Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi
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 ...
Consuelo as a child Consuelo as a teenager. Born in New York City, Consuelo was the only daughter and eldest child of William Kissam Vanderbilt, a New York railroad millionaire, and his first wife, Alva Erskine Smith, a Southern belle, budding suffragist, and daughter of Murray Forbes Smith.
The country legend made a powerful statement, according to his wife, Nancy Sepulvado.
George Vanderbilt was married four times throughout his life. His first marriage was in 1935, [5] when he married Lucille "Lulu" Miriam Parsons (1912–2013). [6] Lulu was born in Montclair, New Jersey and her father, J. Lester Parsons, founded the international re-insurance firm of Crum & Forster in 1896. [7] Together, George and Lulu had:
Details continue to emerge regarding the deaths of actor Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, 65, at the couple’s home in Santa Fe, N.M. The bodies were discovered by a maintenance ...