Word: yanderbilt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Extending his operations. Drew settled in Manhattan, entered the steamboat business first in competition, later in partnership with Yanderbilt. Drew it was who put the Commodore into railroads. In 1853 began Drew's association with the Erie Railroad which culminated in the scandalous "Erie War" of 1866-68. Allied with Gould and Fisk, Dan Drew dumped "watered" Erie stock on the market, sheared Vanderbilt of millions while selling Erie short. When their arrest was ordered. Drew, Gould and Fisk took $6,000,000 in greenbacks, retreated to a fortified Jersey City hotel. While the Press gasped at such, blatant...
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...
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