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9 mag 2024 · The statue was designed by artist Eugene Morahan to honor the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, a wealthy Newporter, businessman and avid equestrian who died aboard the RMS Lusitania in 1915.
17 mag 2024 · Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, a member of the Vanderbilt family, had indeed intended to board the Titanic. However, he canceled his ticket at the last minute and did not take the ill-fated voyage. Unfortunately, Alfred later lost his life in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in May 1915.
6 giorni fa · Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (1899), member of the Vanderbilt family; 1900s. Frederick Baldwin Adams (1900), railroad executive; Ashley Day Leavitt (1900), Congregational minister, Harvard Congregational Church, Brookline, Massachusetts, frequent lecturer and public speaker: 175
1 mag 2024 · Notable passengers who chose to board the ship were businessman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, New York fashion designer Caroline Hickson Kennedy, and Lothrop Withington, a well-known historian...
5 giorni fa · Among her large family was uncle Cornelius Vanderbilt III; aunt Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, who married Harry Payne Whitneyand founded the Whitney Museum; uncle Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, who died on the RMS Lusitania; and aunt Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi, who married Count László Széchenyi.
From the moment in 1907 when New York millionaire Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt strode through the Plaza Hotel's revolving doors to become its first guest, to the afternoon in 2007 when a mysterious Russian oligarch paid a record price for the hotel's largest penthouse, the eighteen-story white marble edifice at the corner of Fifth Avenue and
8 mag 2024 · 1953: Native Dancer won The Preakness Stakes and Jeanne Murray Vanderbilt, wife of the winning owner, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr, declined to take annual possession of the trophy due to its great monetary and sentimental value to the sport of Horse Racing.
