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The
Payne - Whitney Family of Cleveland and New York
Page entitled : Harry Payne Whitney and Gertrude
Vanderbilt
Content of this page is about :
The union of two of the great Gilded Age fortunes through the marriage of
Harry P. Whitney and Gertrude Vanderbilt at the Breakers in Newport Rhode
Island
Extract :
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the eldest son and main
heir of William Collins Whitney, was to marry Getrude Vanderbilt, the elder
of two daughters of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, the railroad tycoon, head of
the House of Vanderbilt, America’s richest family.
The
Cornelius Vanderbilts were long time neighbors of the Payne-Whitneys, at the
corner of 57th Street and Fifth Avenue, where the Whitneys had bought and
enlarged the former [Frederic] Stevens mansion (Nr 2 West Fifty Seventh
street) in 1879.
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precisely, ...
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