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...Vanderbilt, 76, dowager socialite, daughter of Railroad Tycoon Oliver Harriman, follower of Cultist Oom the Omnipotent; of double pneumonia; in Manhattan. Her first husband, Sportsman Samuel Stevens Sands, was killed riding to hounds in 1889; her second, Racquet Champion Louis Morris Rutherford, died in 1892; her third, Yachtsman William Kissam Vanderbilt, died...
...Irascible Mr. Spencer was divorced last spring by his third wife, 76-year-old Emeline Harriman Olin Spencer, sister of Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt. Said Mrs. Spencer: ''He never hit me, he just exploded. He would yell so the whole of Palm Beach could hear...
...later married Grace Vanderbilt's cousin Consuclo Vanderbilt Smith, daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt. Mr. Davis is the only known man who has married two Vanderbilts...
...William Kissam Vanderbilt called it Idle Hour: a 100-room house in Oakdale, Long Island, as sumptuous and showy as a Summer Palace of the Romanovs. Thirty years ago it cost about $7,000,000, but nowadays it is a bit run down. Last week 500 Truth Students, Adepts and Master Metaphysicians twitched on hard chairs in the big reception hall with its encrusted ceiling, ivory-colored fireplace, concealed pipe organ. Above the doors were signs reading "Peace, Discrimination, Enlightenment, Inspiration." James Bernard Schafer, Master Metaphysician, entered...
Divorced. Emeline Harriman Spencer, 76, sister of Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt Sr.; from Howland Spencer, 48, Dutchess County, N. Y. gentleman farmer; in West Palm Beach. Said Mrs. Spencer: "He never hit me, he just exploded. He would yell so the whole of Palm Beach could hear...