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biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">William Kissam Vanderbilt II</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:William_K_Vanderbilt_IIb.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/William_K_Vanderbilt_IIb.jpg/220px-William_K_Vanderbilt_IIb.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="296" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/William_K_Vanderbilt_IIb.jpg/330px-William_K_Vanderbilt_IIb.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/William_K_Vanderbilt_IIb.jpg/440px-William_K_Vanderbilt_IIb.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1303" data-file-height="1756" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Vanderbilt photographed by <a href="/wiki/Theodore_C._Marceau" title="Theodore C. Marceau">Theodore C. Marceau</a>, 1903</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1878-10-26</span>)</span>October 26, 1878<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace">New York City, US</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">January 8, 1944<span style="display:none">(1944-01-08)</span> (aged 65)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace">New York City, US</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Burial place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Vanderbilt_Family_Cemetery_and_Mausoleum" title="Vanderbilt Family Cemetery and Mausoleum">Vanderbilt Family Cemetery and Mausoleum</a>, Staten Island, New York, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/St._Mark%27s_School_(Massachusetts)" title="St. Mark's School (Massachusetts)">St. Mark's School</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Fair_Vanderbilt" title="Virginia Fair Vanderbilt">Virginia Graham Fair</a></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1899; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1927)<wbr /></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Rosamund Lancaster Warburton</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="September 5, 1927">1927</span>)<wbr /></div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">3, including <a href="/wiki/Muriel_Vanderbilt" title="Muriel Vanderbilt">Muriel Vanderbilt</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/William_Kissam_Vanderbilt" title="William Kissam Vanderbilt">William Kissam Vanderbilt</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Alva_Belmont" title="Alva Belmont">Alva Erskine Smith</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>William Kissam Vanderbilt II</b> (October 26, 1878 – January 8, 1944) was an American <a href="/wiki/Motor_racing" class="mw-redirect" title="Motor racing">motor racing</a> enthusiast and <a href="/wiki/Yachting" title="Yachting">yachtsman</a>, and a member of the prominent <a href="/wiki/Vanderbilt_family" title="Vanderbilt family">Vanderbilt family</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Kissam_Vanderbilt_II&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was born on October 26, 1878, in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Gittelman2010_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gittelman2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the second child and first son of <a href="/wiki/William_Kissam_Vanderbilt" title="William Kissam Vanderbilt">William Kissam Vanderbilt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alva_Belmont" title="Alva Belmont">Alva Erskine Smith</a>. His maternal grandfather was <a href="/wiki/Murray_Forbes_Smith" title="Murray Forbes Smith">Murray Forbes Smith</a>. Known as Willie K., he was a brother to <a href="/wiki/Harold_Stirling_Vanderbilt" title="Harold Stirling Vanderbilt">Harold Stirling Vanderbilt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Consuelo_Vanderbilt" title="Consuelo Vanderbilt">Consuelo Vanderbilt</a>. Born to a life of luxury, he was raised in <a href="/wiki/Vanderbilt_houses" title="Vanderbilt houses">Vanderbilt mansions</a>, traveled to <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a> frequently, and sailed the globe on yachts owned by his father. </p><p>Willie was educated by tutors and at <a href="/wiki/St._Mark%27s_School_(Massachusetts)" title="St. Mark's School (Massachusetts)">St. Mark's School</a>. He attended <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> but dropped out after two years. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Kissam_Vanderbilt_II&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>While a great part of his life was filled with travel and leisure activities, Willie's father put him to work at the family's <a href="/wiki/New_York_Central_Railroad" title="New York Central Railroad">New York Central Railroad</a> offices at <a href="/wiki/Grand_Central_Terminal" title="Grand Central Terminal">Grand Central Terminal</a> in <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>. As such, in 1905 he joined other Vanderbilts on <a href="/wiki/Fifth_Avenue" title="Fifth Avenue">Fifth Avenue</a>, hiring the architectural firm <a href="/wiki/McKim,_Mead_%26_White" title="McKim, Mead & White">McKim, Mead & White</a> to design a mansion at 666 Fifth Avenue.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Already extremely wealthy from a trust fund and from his income as president of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Central_Railroad" title="New York Central Railroad">New York Central Railroad</a> Company, on his father's death in 1920 Willie inherited a multimillion-dollar fortune. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Life_as_an_heir">Life as an heir</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Kissam_Vanderbilt_II&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Life as an heir"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although he developed an interest in <a href="/wiki/Horse_racing" title="Horse racing">horse racing</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yachting" title="Yachting">yachting</a>, he was particularly fascinated with automobiles. At age 10, during a stay in the south of <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> he had ridden in a steam-powered tricycle from <a href="/wiki/Beaulieu-sur-Mer" title="Beaulieu-sur-Mer">Beaulieu-sur-Mer</a> the 7 kilometers to <a href="/wiki/Monte_Carlo" title="Monte Carlo">Monte Carlo</a>. As a twenty-year-old, in 1898 he ordered a French <a href="/wiki/De_Dion-Bouton" title="De Dion-Bouton">De Dion-Bouton</a> motor tricycle and had it shipped to New York. Soon, he acquired other motorized vehicles and before long began to infuriate citizens and officials alike as he sped through the towns and villages of <a href="/wiki/Long_Island,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Long Island, New York">Long Island, New York</a>, en route to <i><a href="/wiki/Idle_Hour" title="Idle Hour">Idle Hour</a></i>, his parents' summer estate at <a href="/wiki/Oakdale,_New_York" title="Oakdale, New York">Oakdale</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tuna_HMCS.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Tuna_HMCS.jpg/220px-Tuna_HMCS.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Tuna_HMCS.jpg/330px-Tuna_HMCS.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Tuna_HMCS.jpg/440px-Tuna_HMCS.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1316" data-file-height="987" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/HMCS_Tuna" title="HMCS Tuna">Tarantula</a></i> (1902)</figcaption></figure> <p>A skilled sailor, he took part in <a href="/wiki/Yacht_racing" title="Yacht racing">yacht racing</a>, winning the <a href="/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Lipton_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Thomas Lipton Cup">Sir Thomas Lipton Cup</a> in 1900 with his new 70-foot (21 m) sailing yacht he had named <i>Virginia</i> in honor of his new bride. In 1902, Vanderbilt began construction on his own country place at <a href="/wiki/Lake_Success,_New_York" title="Lake Success, New York">Lake Success</a> on Long Island that he named "<i>Deepdale</i>." In 1903 he bought <i><a href="/wiki/HMCS_Tuna" title="HMCS Tuna">Tarantula</a></i>, the first <a href="/wiki/Steam_turbine" title="Steam turbine">turbine</a>-powered <a href="/wiki/Steam_yacht" title="Steam yacht">steam yacht</a> in the World.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, sailing took second place to his enthusiasm for fast cars. In 1904, Willie set a new <a href="/wiki/Land_speed_record" title="Land speed record">land speed record</a> of 92.30 mph (148.54 km/h) in a <a href="/wiki/Mercedes-Benz" title="Mercedes-Benz">Mercedes-Benz</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Daytona_Beach_Road_Course" class="mw-redirect" title="Daytona Beach Road Course">Daytona Beach Road Course</a> at <a href="/wiki/Ormond_Beach,_Florida" title="Ormond Beach, Florida">Ormond Beach, Florida</a>. That same year, he launched the <i><a href="/wiki/Vanderbilt_Cup" title="Vanderbilt Cup">Vanderbilt Cup</a></i>, the first major trophy in American <a href="/wiki/Auto_racing" title="Auto racing">auto racing</a>. An international event, designed to spur American manufacturers into racing, the race's large cash prize drew the top drivers and their vehicles from across the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic Ocean</a> who had competed in <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Bennett_Cup_in_auto_racing" class="mw-redirect" title="Gordon Bennett Cup in auto racing">Gordon Bennett Cup</a>. Held at a course set out in <a href="/wiki/Nassau_County,_New_York" title="Nassau County, New York">Nassau County</a> on Long Island, New York, the race drew large crowds hoping to see an American car defeat the mighty European vehicles. However, a French <a href="/wiki/Panhard" title="Panhard">Panhard</a> vehicle won the race and fans would have to wait until 1908 when 23-year-old <a href="/wiki/George_Robertson_(race_car_driver)" class="mw-redirect" title="George Robertson (race car driver)">George Robertson</a> of <a href="/wiki/Garden_City,_New_York" title="Garden City, New York">Garden City, New York</a>, became the first American to win the Vanderbilt Cup. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:William_K_Vanderbilt_with_automobile_1904_N041926.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/William_K_Vanderbilt_with_automobile_1904_N041926.jpg/220px-William_K_Vanderbilt_with_automobile_1904_N041926.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="168" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/William_K_Vanderbilt_with_automobile_1904_N041926.jpg/330px-William_K_Vanderbilt_with_automobile_1904_N041926.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/William_K_Vanderbilt_with_automobile_1904_N041926.jpg/440px-William_K_Vanderbilt_with_automobile_1904_N041926.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="459" /></a><figcaption>Vanderbilt and his powerful Mercedes-Benz at Daytona (1904). Courtesy Florida Photographic Collection</figcaption></figure> <p>The Vanderbilt Cup auto races repeatedly had crowd control problems and at the 1906 race a spectator was killed. Seeing the potential to solve the safety issue as well as improve attendance to his race, and with encouragement from AAA official <a href="/wiki/A._R._Pardington" title="A. R. Pardington">A. R. Pardington</a>, Vanderbilt formed a corporation to build the <a href="/wiki/Long_Island_Motor_Parkway" title="Long Island Motor Parkway">Long Island Motor Parkway</a>, one of the country's first modern paved parkways that could not only be used for the race but would open up Long Island for easy access and economic development.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Construction began in 1907 of the multimillion-dollar toll highway that was to run from the Kissena Corridor in Queens County over numerous bridges and overpasses to <a href="/wiki/Lake_Ronkonkoma" class="mw-redirect" title="Lake Ronkonkoma">Lake Ronkonkoma</a>, a distance of 48 miles (77 km). However, the toll road was never able to generate sustainable profits and in 1938 it was formally ceded to the county governments in lieu of the $80,000 due in back taxes.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His new high-speed road complemented a train service that allowed a rapid exit from Manhattan. Becoming the first suburban automobile commuter, in 1910 Willie began work on the much more elaborate and costly "<i><a href="/wiki/Vanderbilt_Museum" title="Vanderbilt Museum">Eagle's Nest</a></i>" estate at <a href="/wiki/Centerport,_New_York" title="Centerport, New York">Centerport, Long Island</a>. An avid collector of natural history and marine specimens as well as other anthropological objects, he traveled extensively aboard his yacht as well as overland to numerous destinations around the globe. He acquired a vast array of artifacts for his collection during his well-documented travels and after service with the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> during <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, he published a book titled "<i>A Trip Through Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria, and Southern France</i>." A few years later, he engaged William Belanske, an artist from the <a href="/wiki/American_Museum_of_Natural_History" title="American Museum of Natural History">American Museum of Natural History</a> to take part with him in a scientific voyage to the <a href="/wiki/Galapagos_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Galapagos Islands">Galapagos Islands</a>. By 1922, Vanderbilt had commissioned the construction of a single-story building on his Long Island estate to serve as a public museum, and less than a decade later a second story was added on to accommodate the growing collection.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> William Belanske, who had accompanied Vanderbilt on his Galapagos voyage, was employed as the full-time curator of this museum.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Military_service">Military service</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Kissam_Vanderbilt_II&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Military service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MV_Tarantula.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/MV_Tarantula.jpg/220px-MV_Tarantula.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="111" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/MV_Tarantula.jpg/330px-MV_Tarantula.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/MV_Tarantula.jpg/440px-MV_Tarantula.jpg 2x" data-file-width="740" data-file-height="372" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/USS_Tarantula_(SP-124)" title="USS Tarantula (SP-124)">USS <i>Tarantula</i></a> (1913)</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1913, Vanderbilt traded in his steam turbine yacht <i>Tarantula</i> for a new motor yacht, also named <a href="/wiki/USS_Tarantula_(SP-124)" title="USS Tarantula (SP-124)"><i>Tarantula</i></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On May 9, 1917, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> commissioned the second <i>Tarantula</i> at <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Navy_Yard" title="Brooklyn Navy Yard">Brooklyn Navy Yard</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Patrol_boat" title="Patrol boat">patrol boat</a>, with the <a href="/wiki/Hull_classification_number" class="mw-redirect" title="Hull classification number">hull number</a> SP-124, and appointed Lieutenant Vanderbilt as its commander. The Navy <a href="/wiki/Chartering_(shipping)" title="Chartering (shipping)">chartered</a> the yacht from him for the duration of the war. He was assigned to patrol duty in the waters of the <a href="/wiki/3rd_Naval_District" class="mw-redirect" title="3rd Naval District">3rd Naval District</a>, and escorted convoys in waters off New York and New Jersey. On October 1, 1917, he was released from active duty and given a temporary leave of absence to resume his duties of vice-president of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Central_Railroad" title="New York Central Railroad">New York Central Railroad</a>. A few months later, he was elected president of the New York Central Railroad and acted in this capacity for the remainder of the war.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the war, Vanderbilt was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy_Reserve" title="United States Navy Reserve">Naval Reserve</a> on May 17, 1921.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He remained in the Naval Reserve until he was transferred to the Honorary Retired List on January 1, 1941, for physical disability.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Residences">Residences</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Kissam_Vanderbilt_II&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Residences"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1925, he traded the luxury yacht <i>Eagle</i> for ownership of <a href="/wiki/Fisher_Island,_Florida" title="Fisher Island, Florida">Fisher Island, Florida</a>, a place he used as a winter residence.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He built a mansion complete with docking facilities for his yacht, a seaplane hangar, tennis courts, swimming pool, and an eleven-hole golf course. This home was called <i>Alva Base</i> and the architect was <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Fatio" title="Maurice Fatio">Maurice Fatio</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition to this property, and his Long Island estate, <i>Eagle's Nest</i>, which was designed by <a href="/wiki/Warren_%26_Wetmore" class="mw-redirect" title="Warren & Wetmore">Warren & Wetmore</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Vanderbilt also owned a farm in <a href="/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a> and Kedgwick Lodge, a hunting lodge designed for his father by architect <a href="/wiki/Stanford_White" title="Stanford White">Stanford White</a>, on the <a href="/wiki/Restigouche_River" title="Restigouche River">Restigouche River</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_Brunswick" title="New Brunswick">New Brunswick</a>, Canada. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Kissam_Vanderbilt_II&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1899, Vanderbilt married <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Fair_Vanderbilt" title="Virginia Fair Vanderbilt">Virginia Graham Fair</a> (1875–1935), a wealthy heiress whose father, <a href="/wiki/James_Graham_Fair" class="mw-redirect" title="James Graham Fair">James Graham Fair</a>, had made a fortune in mining the famous <a href="/wiki/Comstock_Lode" title="Comstock Lode">Comstock Lode</a>. They spent their honeymoon at the <i>Idle Hour</i> estate but disaster struck when fire broke out and the mansion burned to the ground. Before their separation and divorce, Vanderbilt and his wife had a son and two daughters, the younger of whom was named for his sister: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Muriel_Vanderbilt" title="Muriel Vanderbilt">Muriel Vanderbilt</a> (1900–1972), who married three times, the first in 1925 to <a href="/wiki/Frederic_Cameron_Church,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Frederic Cameron Church, Jr.">Frederic Cameron Church, Jr.</a> She later married Henry Delafield Phelps and John Payson Adams.</li> <li>Consuelo Vanderbilt (1903–2011)<sup id="cite_ref-CVEObit2011_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CVEObit2011-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who first married <a href="/wiki/Earl_E._T._Smith" title="Earl E. T. Smith">Earl E. T. Smith</a> (1903-1991), the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Ambassador_to_Cuba" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Ambassador to Cuba">U.S. Ambassador to Cuba</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1964ObitCVB_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1964ObitCVB-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in 1926. They divorced in 1935 and she married to Henry Gassaway Davis III (1902-1984), who was and the grandson of <a href="/wiki/Henry_G._Davis" title="Henry G. Davis">Henry G. Davis</a> and recently divorced from her cousin, <a href="/wiki/Grace_Vanderbilt#Personal_life" title="Grace Vanderbilt">Grace Vanderbilt</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1936Engagement_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1936Engagement-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They divorced in 1940 and she married William John Warburton III (1895-1979) in 1941. They divorced in 1946 and in 1951, she married Noble Clarkson Earl Jr. (1900–1969).<sup id="cite_ref-CVEWaPo2011_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CVEWaPo2011-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Kissam_Vanderbilt_III&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Kissam Vanderbilt III (page does not exist)">William Kissam Vanderbilt III</a> (1907–1933), who inherited his father's love of fast cars and exotic travel, was killed in an automobile accident in <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a> while driving home to New York City from his father's Florida estate.</li></ul> <p>The Vanderbilts separated after ten years of marriage but did not formally divorce until 1927 when he wanted to remarry. Divorce proceedings were handled by his New York lawyers while he and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Rosamund_Lancaster_Warburton&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rosamund Lancaster Warburton (page does not exist)">Rosamund Lancaster Warburton</a> (1897–1947), a former wife of <a href="/wiki/Warburton_family#Barclay_Harding_Warburton_II" title="Warburton family">Barclay Harding Warburton II</a> and an heir to the <a href="/wiki/John_Wanamaker" title="John Wanamaker">John Wanamaker</a> department store fortune, waited discreetly away from the media at a home in the <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Parisian</a> suburb of <a href="/wiki/Passy" title="Passy">Passy</a>, <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>. When the divorce was final, the couple were married at the <i>Hotel de Ville</i> (city hall) in Paris on September 5, 1927. Vanderbilt became a legal stepfather to <a href="/wiki/Barclay_Harding_Warburton_III" class="mw-redirect" title="Barclay Harding Warburton III">Barclay Harding Warburton III</a> once they wed. </p><p>Vanderbilt died on January 8, 1944, of a heart ailment.<sup id="cite_ref-WKBObit1944_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WKBObit1944-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was interred in the <a href="/wiki/Vanderbilt_Family_Cemetery_and_Mausoleum" title="Vanderbilt Family Cemetery and Mausoleum">Vanderbilt Family Cemetery and Mausoleum</a> on <a href="/wiki/Staten_Island,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Staten Island, New York">Staten Island, New York</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His estate was valued at $35,815,614, from which approximately $18,844,000 in Federal Estate Taxes and $5,600,000 in New York Estate taxes were deducted.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Legacy">Legacy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Kissam_Vanderbilt_II&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1931, Vanderbilt had the Krupp <a href="/wiki/Germaniawerft" class="mw-redirect" title="Germaniawerft">Germaniawerft</a> in Kiel, Germany, build for him the 264-foot diesel yacht <i>Alva</i>. The <i>Alva</i> was donated by Vanderbilt to the U.S. Navy on November 4, 1941. The <i>Alva</i> was converted to a gunboat and commissioned as the <a href="/wiki/USS_Plymouth_(PG-57)" title="USS Plymouth (PG-57)">USS <i>Plymouth</i></a> (PG-57) on December 29, 1941. The <i>Plymouth</i> was primarily employed as a convoy escort on the East Coast and in the Caribbean and was sunk by a torpedo from a German U-boat on August 5, 1943, at 21.39 with the loss of 95. </p><p>By the 1940s, Vanderbilt had organized his will so that, upon his death, the <i>Eagle's Nest</i> property along with a $2 million upkeep fund would be given to <a href="/wiki/Suffolk_County,_New_York" title="Suffolk County, New York">Suffolk County, New York</a>, to serve as a public <a href="/wiki/Museum" title="Museum">museum</a>. Since 1950, the site has operated as the Suffolk County <a href="/wiki/Vanderbilt_Museum" title="Vanderbilt Museum">Vanderbilt Museum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Kissam_Vanderbilt_II&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Gittelman2010-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Gittelman2010_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFGittelman2010" class="citation book cs1">Gittelman, Steven H. 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