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Anderson Cooper

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William Henry Vanderbilt

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Anderson Cooper — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 24 
  • Father:
  • Cornelius Vanderbilt 
  • Mother:
  • Sophia Johnson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 May 1821 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Brunswick, Middlesex, New Jersey 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Dec 1885 
  • Death Location:
  • New York, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp (Staten Island), Richmond, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Maria Louisa Kissam
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Sep 1841 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Cedar Hill, Albany, New York 
  • Children:
  
  

  Cornelius Vanderbilt II (Ahnentafel No:12 )

  William Kissam Vanderbilt

  George Washington Vanderbilt

  • Notes: 

  • William Vanderbilt's given name is also seen as Billy.

• Sources for William Henry Vanderbilt

  • ¹ American Biographical Library, Entry for Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
  • ² Crown Point Register (Crown Point, Indiana), 04 FEB 1886, Story about Martha (Kissam) Vanderbilt's romance with William H. Vanderbilt.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/01/2014).
  • ⁴ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1996, Vol. 13, p. 22.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1935, Vol. 89, p. 262.
  • ⁶ New York World (New York, New York), 13 SEP 1899, pp. 1-2, Obituary for son Cornelius Vanderbilt.
  • ⁷ New York World (New York, New York), 10 DEC 1885, pp. 1-2, Obituary for William Henry Vanderbilt.
  • ⁸ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #4064, Membership application for George W. Vanderbilt.
  • ⁹ Browning, Charles H., Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to . . ., 2nd Ed., Philadelphia: Porter and Coates (1891), 162.
  • ¹⁰ Duyckinck, Whitehead Cornell and Rev. John Cornell, The Duyckinck and Allied Families: Being a Record of the Descendants of Evert Duyckinck Who Settled in . . ., New York: Tobias A. Wright, Publisher (1908), 37, 66.
  • ¹¹ Effingham de Forest, Louis, ed., Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York, New York: Printed by order of the Society (1923), 47.
  • ¹² Kissam, Edward, The Kissam Family in America from 1644 to 1825, New York: Dempsey and Carroll's Art Press (1892), 48-49.
  • ¹³ Wikipedia, "William Henry Vanderbilt", (accessed 12/01/2014).

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