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In 1878, Alva and William Kissam Vanderbilt began building a lavish, wooden 110-room home known as Idle Hour, on a 900-acre (3.6 km 2) estate on the Connetquot River. The building, initially completed in 1882, was designed by Richard Morris Hunt of Hunt & Hunt (an American who studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris), [a] continuously ...
William Kissam Vanderbilt ( New York, 12 december 1849 – Parijs 22 juli 1920) was een lid van de steenrijke Amerikaanse familie van Nederlandse afkomst Vanderbilt. Hij was een bekend paardenfokker met welke dieren hij vele races won. Hij was de tweede zoon van William Henry Vanderbilt en erfde van hem het enorme vermogen van 55 miljoen dollar.
Harold S. Vanderbilt was the last of the Vanderbilts to be actively involved in the railroad empire founded by his great grandfather, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and his grandfather, William Vanderbilt during the nineteenth century. His parents were William Kissam Vanderbilt and Alva Erskine Smith.
William K. Vanderbilt. Two men named William Kissam Vanderbilt were prominent members of the Vanderbilt family, descendants of Cornelius Vanderbilt. William K. Vanderbilt was the son of William Henry Vanderbilt and a grandson of "Commodore" Vanderbilt. He took an interest in managing the family`s railroad until middle age, and spent his later ...
William Vanderbilt nait à New Brunswick, au New Jersey [1] le 8 mai 1821. En 1841 il épouse Maria Louisa Kissam (1821–1896), fille d'un ministre presbytérien. En 1877, il hérite de son père, le « Commodore » Cornelius Vanderbilt, magnat des chemins de fer, environ 100 millions de dollars.
One day, her old pal Consuelo Yznaga came through for her in a big way, introducing her to one William Kissam Vanderbilt, the rakish, gadabout grandson of railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt. Alva knew how to turn on her wit and charm—she never could rely on her looks, after all—and she immediately hooked in the laissez-faire rich boy with her confidence and smarts.
