Florence Vanderbilt Twombly
Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly | |
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.jpg) Mrs. Hamilton McKown Twombly (Florence Adele Vanderbilt) by John Singer Sargent | |
| Born | January 8, 1854 |
| Died | April 11, 1952 (aged 98) |
| Occupation | heiress |
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Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly (January 8, 1854 – April 11, 1952) was an American heiress and a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family.[1]
Biography
Early life
Florence was born on Staten Island in New York City on January 8, 1854.[2] She was a daughter of William Henry Vanderbilt and Maria Louisa Kissam.[2][3] Her paternal grandfather was the Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr..[2] Her siblings were Cornelius II, Margaret Louisa, William Kissam, Frederick William, Eliza Osgood, Emily Thorn, and George Washington II.[2]
Houses
- Townhouse at 684 Fifth Avenue in New York City, designed by John B. Snook and given as a gift from her father, William Henry Vanderbilt.[2][3]
Twombly townhouse - 5th Avenue, NYC - Vinland, a Romanesque "cottage" in Newport, Rhode Island built in 1882 for tobacco heiress Catharine Lorillard Wolfe by Peabody & Stearns, purchased by the Twomblys in 1896 and greatly enlarged.[2] Interiors by Ogden Codman.[3] Now part of Salve Regina University and called McAuley Hall.[4]
- Florham, an 800-acre estate in Florham Park, New Jersey designed by McKim, Mead & White in 1897.[2][3] Part of it including the manor house now belongs to Farleigh Dickinson University.[5][6]
- Townhouse, her second, a 70 room house at 1 East 71st Street, New York City. Designed by Whitney Warren. Demolished.[2]
Personal life
She married Hamilton McKown Twombly (1849-1910) in 1877.[2][3] They had four children: Alice Twombly (1879–1896) Died at the age of sixteen on the eve of her society debut; Florence Adele Twombly (1881–1969) (married William A. M. Burden); Ruth Twombly (1884-1954) Never married; Hamilton McKown Twombly, Jr. (1887-1906) Drowned in an incident at a summer camp where he was working as a camp counselor.[2]
She died April 11, 1952 in New York City, having outlived her husband by 42 years.[1][2] She is in interred at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx).[2]
References
- ^ a b "Ms. Twombly Dies In Home Here at 9:41. Daughter of W. H. Vanderbilt Was Last Surviving Grandchild of Commodore Vanderbilt". New York Times. Retrieved 2015-09-13.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l FindAGrave
- ^ a b c d e Hamilton Twombly, Capitalist, Dead, The New York Times, January 12, 1910
- ^ http://www.salve.edu/virtualtour/mcauley.aspx
- ^ Southern Methodist University: Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection: Florence Vanderbilt and Hamilton McKown Twombly's Florham estate, Madison, NJ
- ^ Farleigh Dickinson University: College at Florham: History of the Estate