Ancestry of
Anderson Cooper

Television Journalist

Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt

View famous kin of Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt

• • Grandfather of Anderson Cooper — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • Cornelius Vanderbilt II 
  • Mother:
  • Alice Claypoole Gwynne   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 Dec 1880 
  • Birth Location:
  • New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Sep 1925 
  • Death Location:
  • Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp (Staten Island), Richmond, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Gloria Maria Mercedes Morgan
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Mar 1923 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Manhattan, New York, New York 
  • Child:

  Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt (Ahnentafel No:3 )

• Additional marriages for Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt

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  • Spouse:
  • Cathleen Neilson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1903

• Sources for Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt

  • ¹ Federal Census, NY, New York County, 1900, Manhattan, E.D. 779, Sheet 15B, Image 30 of 30.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/01/2014).
  • ³ Middletown Times Herald (Middletown, New York), 21 MAR 1933, p. 7, Obituary for father-in-law Harry Hays Morgan.
  • ⁴ Muncie Evening Press (Muncie, Indiana), 22 FEB 1924, p. 12, Birth announcement for daughter of Reginald and Gloria Vanderbilt.
  • ⁵ New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938, Marriage record for Reginold Vanderbilt and Gloria Morgan.
  • ⁶ Rhode Island Deaths and Burials, 1802-1950, Death record for Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt.
  • ⁷ U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Draft registration for Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt.
  • ⁸ 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), 87, 88i.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 48.
  • ¹⁰ Wikipedia, "Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt", (accessed 12/01/2014).

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