Edith Vanderbilt

Edith Vanderbilt (17 January 1873 – 21 December 1958), nee Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, and later Edith Gerry, was a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, the first governor of Dutch colonial New York, and also the great-niece of Hamilton Fish. She was orphaned at age ten and was raised by her maternal grandmother.

Edith’s first husband was George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862 - 1914), the owner of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. They were married on 1 June 1898 in Paris. After his death in 1914, Edith sold the land around the Biltmore Estate to the United States Forest Service. This became part of the Pisgah National Forest. Edith and George had one daughter, Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (1900 - 1976).

Edith's second husband, whom she married on 22 October 1925 in London, was Peter G. Gerry, United States Senator from Rhode Island.

ee also

*Vanderbilt family
*Peter G. Gerry

External links

*Biographies
**http://www.answers.com/topic/george-washington-vanderbilt-ii
*Portraits and photographs:
**http://www.jssgallery.org/Other_Artists/Boldini_Giovanni/Edith_Stuyvesant_Dresser_Vanderbilt.htm]
** [http://www.tfaoi.com/mn/mid/mid13.jpg] Whistler
** [http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLC,GGLC:1969-53,GGLC:en&q=Edith+Stuyvesant+Vanderbilt] Google
** [http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLC,GGLC:1969-53,GGLC:en&q=Edith+Stuyvesant+Vanderbilt] Davis Art