William Kissam Vanderbilt II
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William Kissam Vanderbilt II was an American motor racing enthusiast and yachtsman, and a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family.
Vanderbilt photographed by Theodore C. Marceau, 1903
Tarantula (1902)
Vanderbilt and his powerful Mercedes-Benz at Daytona (1904). Courtesy Florida Photographic Collection
USS Tarantula (1913)
Muriel Vanderbilt
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Muriel Vanderbilt was an American socialite and a thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder who was a member of the wealthy Vanderbilt family.
William Kissam Vanderbilt II
…to the ground. Before their separation and divorce, Vanderbilt and his wife had a son and two daughters, the younger of whom was named for his sister: Muriel Vanderbilt (1900–1972), who married three times, the first in 1925 to Frederic Cameron Church, Jr. She later married Henry Delafield Phelps and John Payson Adams…
Muriel Vanderbilt in 1915