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The Vanderbilt family

Seven public generations of an American railroad fortune: from Cornelius the Commodore through the Breakers and Biltmore, Consuelo the Duchess, Gertrude Whitney, Gloria Vanderbilt, to Anderson Cooper.

38 people · 7 generations

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1869 1813 1841 1867 1875 1898 1896 1923 1895 1963 1945
··· Grandfather Cornelius van der Bilt
1764–1832
··· Grandmother Phebe Hand
1767–1854
··· Mother Sophia Johnson
1795–1868
··· Father Cornelius Vanderbilt
1794–1877
··· Frank Armstrong Crawford
1839–1885
··· Sister Phebe Jane Cross
1814–1878
··· Sister Ethelinda Vanderbilt
1817–1889
··· Sister Eliza Vanderbilt
1819–1890
··· Wife Maria Kissam Vanderbilt
1821–1896
··· William Henry Vanderbilt
1821–1885
··· Sister Emily Almira Vanderbilt
1823–1896
··· Brother Cornelius Jeremiah Vanderbilt
1830–1882
··· Brother George Washington Vanderbilt
1839–1864
··· Daughter-in-law Alice Claypoole Gwynne
1845–1934
··· Son Cornelius Vanderbilt II
1843–1899
··· Daughter-in-law Alva Erskine Smith
1853–1933
··· Son William Kissam Vanderbilt
1849–1920
··· Son Frederick William Vanderbilt
1856–1938
··· Daughter-in-law Edith Stuyvesant Dresser
1873–1958
··· Son George Washington Vanderbilt II
1862–1914
··· Grandson Cornelius Vanderbilt III
1873–1942
··· Son-in-law Harry Payne Whitney
1872–1930
··· Granddaughter Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
1875–1942
··· Daughter-in-law Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt
1904–1965
··· Grandson Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt
1880–1925
··· Granddaughter Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi
1886–1965
··· Son-in-law Charles Spencer-Churchill
1871–1934
··· Granddaughter Consuelo Vanderbilt
1877–1964
··· Grandson Harold Stirling Vanderbilt
1884–1970
··· Cornelius Vanderbilt IV
1898–1974
··· Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
1899–1992
··· Leopold Stokowski
1882–1977
··· Gloria Vanderbilt
1924–2019
··· Wyatt Emory Cooper
1927–1978
··· Stanislaus Stokowski
b. 1950
··· Christopher Stokowski
b. 1952
··· Carter Cooper
1965–1988
··· Anderson Cooper
b. 1967

William Henry Vanderbilt

1821–1885

Man

  • Born. 8 May 1821 · New Brunswick, New Jersey
  • Died. 8 December 1885 · New York, United States
  • Parents. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Sophia Johnson
  • Married. Maria Kissam Vanderbilt
  • Children. Cornelius Vanderbilt II, William Kissam Vanderbilt, Frederick William Vanderbilt, George Washington Vanderbilt II

Doubled the fortune. “The public be damned.”

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