Word: kissam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Apia, two stewards from the yacht Alva, on which William Kissam Vanderbilt & friends are touring the South seas, complained to a Samoan court of ill treatment. The court cleared Yachtsman Vanderbilt, found the stewards "prohibited immigrants," fined them £100 each. They could not pay, were jailed for six months...
Married, Mrs. Muriel Yanderbilt Church, daughter of William Kissam Yanderbilt and his first wife. Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt; divorced wife of Frederic Cameron Church Jr.; and Henry Delafield Phelps of Providence. R. I.; at Mrs. Vanderbilt's Manhasset, L. I., estate; in a civil ceremony (Mrs. Church's first marriage had not been annulled by the Pope). Mrs. Church requested that instead of wedding presents the money be given to help the Unemployed. Just before the ceremony her favorite hunter got excited, bowled over tables, scattered guests every which...
Architect Richard Morris Hunt; in Manhattan. From a small sketch left by his father he completed the new wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Some of his work: Quintard and Hoffman Halls at the University of the South; "Idle Hour," country home of the late William Kissam Vanderbilt; "Castle Gould" on the estate of Howard Gould...
Married. Barclay Harding ("Buzz") Warburton Jr., 32, flyer, son of the one-time publisher of the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, grandson of the late John Wanamaker, onetime husband of Mrs. William Kissam (Rosamund Lancaster) Vanderbilt; and Mrs. Evelyn Hall Pierce, 27, divorced last week from H. Denny Pierce, Manhattan broker; in Chicago...
Sued for Divorce. John Harriman of Manhattan, youthful son of Banker Oliver Harriman, nephew of Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt; by Mrs. Anna Foley Harriman, of Richmond, Va., formerly Mrs. Louis de L'Aigle Munds. Charge: that he had been "notoriously unfaithful...