William Kissam Vanderbilt  1849 -

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• Birth	1849	New York   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I65	Vanderbilt
  Last Modified	03 Feb 2008
  Father	William Henry Vanderbilt,   b. 08 May 1821, New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey ,   d. 08 Dec 1885
  Mother	Maria Louisa Kissam
  Married	1840
  Family ID	F16	Group Sheet
  Family 1	Alva Erskine Smith,   b. abt. 1852, Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama
  Married	1874  [2]
  Children	> 1. Consuelo Vanderbilt,   b. 1877, New York ,   d. 06 Dec 1964, Southampton, Long Island, New York, New York > 2. William Kissam Vanderbilt, II,   b. abt. 1878, New York   3. Harold Stirling Vanderbilt,   b. 1882
  Photos		Idle Hour Family home of William Kissam Vanderbilt Sr. in Oakdale, Long Island. Burned shortly after WK Jr. & Virginia were married. Second mansion was built and is now part of the campus of Dowling College. Source: "Fire Mars Vanderbilt Honeymoon." San Francisco Call [San Francisco, CA] 12 Apr. 1899. Library of Congress: Chronicling America. http://tinyurl.com/p76woz
  		660 Fifth Avenue: Home of William K. & Alva (Smith) Vanderbilt Picture from Wikipedia commons.
  Last Modified	03 Feb 2008
  Family ID	F54	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Anne H. Harriman,   d. 20 Apr 1940, New York
  Married	29 Apr 1903	London, England   [2, 3, 4]
  Notes	no issue. Married: Wedding took place at the residence of Henry White, Secretary of the American Embassy in London. Mrs. White is a sister-in-law of Anne's.
  Last Modified	22 Mar 2008
  Family ID	F55	Group Sheet

• Photos		William Kissam Vanderbilt Sr. picture from Wikipedia
  Documents		1880 NY Census: William Kissam & Alva Vanderbilt Enumeration Date: 26 Jun 1880 Enumeration District: 321 Page: 53 Location: Oakdale, Suffolk County, New York #530 1. W.K. - Head, age 31, railroad king 2. Alva - wife, age 27, born in AL, father born in VA, mother born in TN 3. Consuela - daughter, age 3 4. W.K. Jr. - son, age 1 Link to full image.

• Sources

  [S27] Famous Families of New York, Hamm, Margherita Arlina., (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1902.), http://is.gd/9wA., 209, 1902. [S36] Duyckinck, Whitehead Cornell, and John Cornell. The Duyckinck and Allied Families Being a Record of the Descendants of Evert Duyckink Who Settled in New Amsterdam, Now New York, in 1638., Duyckinck, Whitehead Cornell; Cornell, John, (Tobias A. Wright, 1908.), http://books.google.com/books?id=8k9KAAAAMAAJ., 66. [S62] Mrs. W.K. Vanderbilt Sr., Dies: Was Leader of New York '400', (The Tennessean, 21 Apr 1940). [S67] W.K. Vanderbilt's Upcoming Wedding, (New York Times, 22 Apr 1903), http://tinyurl.com/yp29zo..