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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]
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 ...
Harry Payne Whitney (1872–1930): husband of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; 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
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 ...
George and Edith had one daughter together, Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (August 22, 1900 - February 7, 1976). In 1912, George and Edith booked passage on the doomed Titanic, but they changed their plans at the last minute via telephone, instead sailing on her sister ship, Olympic.
ASHEVILLE - More than a century after famed entrepreneur George Vanderbilt and his wife, Edith, marked the first Christmas at their then-new Biltmore House, the time-honored tradition has ...
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.
In 1924, he married Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt at All Souls Cathedral in Biltmore Village. Cornelia was the only child of the late George Washington Vanderbilt II and the former Edith Stuyvesant Dresser. [3] The following year, Cornelia's mother married Peter Goelet Gerry, a U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, in London. [4]