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Frank Armstrong Crawford-Vanderbilt (January 18, 1839 – May 4, 1885) was an American socialite and philanthropist. During the American Civil War, she was a strong supporter of the Confederate States of America. After the war, she lived in New York City and married multi-millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt.
11 apr 2011 · On Aug. 21, 1869, Vanderbilt married the oddly named Frank Armstrong Crawford. He was 75; she was 32, and his second wife. She was also from Mobile, Ala., and an unrepentant Confederate.
Elliott Fitch Shepard (1833–1893): husband of Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard; Frank Armstrong Crawford Vanderbilt (1839–1885): 2nd wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt; William Douglas Sloane (1844–1915): 1st husband of Emily Thorn Vanderbilt; Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt (1845–1934): wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt II
An Alabama native like her cousin Amelia, Frank Armstrong Crawford married Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1869. He was seventy-five and she was thirty. Strongly devoted to the Methodist Church, her letters to McTyeire suggest that Frank played a critical role in priming Cornelius to sponsor a Southern Methodist institution.
20 giu 2023 · Jun 20, 2023, 10:30 AM. Edited by Seth Robertson. Illustrations by Chris Wormell. In March 1873, Cornelius Vanderbilt and his wife, Frank Armstrong Crawford Vanderbilt, gave a charitable gift that ...
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Frank Armstrong Crawford Vanderbilt. In the years following the Civil War, Holland Nimmons McTyeire, a Nashville-based bishop within the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, led a movement to establish “an institution of learning of the highest order.”
Frank Armstrong (Crawford) Vanderbilt was born on 18 Jan 1839 in Mobile, Alabama, USA. Her parents were Robert Leighton Crawford (1799 - 1853) and Martha Eliza (Everett) Crawford (1820 - 1898). Her brother was Robert Leighton Crawford (1841 - 1921). Frank married John F Elliott (1835 - ) on 28 Apr 1859 in Mobile.
