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Anne Harriman Sands Rutherfurd Vanderbilt (February 17, 1861 – April 20, 1940) was an American heiress known for her marriages to prominent men [1] and her role in the development of the Sutton Place neighborhood as a fashionable place to live.
Michelle Alexander (B.A. 1989) – author of The New Jim Crow, columnist for The New York Times, Truman Scholar; Joseph Alexander Altsheler – reporter and editor, New York World; Thomas J. Anderson (B.A. 1934) – columnist and publisher, American Party presidential nominee in 1976 [297]
She later married Sigourney Thayer (1896–1944), for less than a year, and then Raoul Whitfield (1896–1945), shortly before her death in 1935. [15] On December 27, 1929, Vanderbilt married for the second time to Anne Gordon Colby (1909–1974) of West Orange, New Jersey. Together, they had three children:
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
She was the cousin of Anne McDonnell, the first wife of Henry Ford II. [1] Vanderbilt was an heiress to the Murray family fortune. [2] The Murrays were a wealthy Irish Catholic family prominent in New York City and Southampton. [3] Vanderbilt grew up at 755 Park Avenue in New York City. [1]
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — The Vanderbilt family, once synonymous with American wealth and power, has fallen into a full-blown public spat with the organization that now owns their spectacular Rhode ...
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Joe Gow (born 1960) (attended West Chester University before transferring to New York University, later transferring to Penn State University, from where he graduated) — American academic, musician, pornographic actor, and university administrator, noted for being fired as Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse in December 2023 ...