Ancestry of
Anderson Cooper
Television Journalist
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- 2nd Great-grandmother of Anderson Cooper — 5th Generation
- Ahnentafel No:
- 25
- Father:
- Samuel Kissam
- Mother:
- Margaret Hamilton Adams
- Birth Date:
- 24 Jun 1821
- Birth Location:
- Coeymans, Albany, New York
- Christening Date:
- Christening Location:
- Death Date:
- 6 Nov 1896
- Death Location:
- Scarborough, Westchester, New York
- Burial Date:
- Burial Location:
- Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp (Staten Island), Richmond, New York
- Spouse Name:
- William Henry Vanderbilt
- 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
Maria Louisa Kissam
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Sources for Maria Louisa Kissam
- 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 U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #4064, Membership application for George W. Vanderbilt.
- 7 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.
- 8 Effingham de Forest, Louis, ed., Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York, New York: Printed by order of the Society (1923), 47.
- 9 Kissam, Edward, The Kissam Family in America from 1644 to 1825, New York: Dempsey and Carroll's Art Press (1892), 48-49.
- 10 Wikipedia, "William Henry Vanderbilt", (accessed 12/01/2014).
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