George Washington Vanderbilt II

George Washington Vanderbilt II ( born November 14, 1862 in New Dorp, Staten Iceland, New York, † March 6, 1914 in Washington, DC) was an American art collector. He was a member of the famous Vanderbilt family.

Life

He was the youngest child of the American entrepreneur William Henry Vanderbilt and Maria Louisa Kissam.

Vanderbilt built the Biltmore Estate, whose owners he was. He was married to Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt women's rights activist (1873-1958) and they had a daughter, Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt.

Together with his wife he traveled a lot and quickly found contact with the European high society in London, Paris, Venice, Rome, Capri and Munich. The banquets, dance balls, garden parties, dinners, fox hunts, dances and costume balls of the European high - and American money aristocracy were famous and filled the society columns of the newspapers. To escape from the stresses of life, the couple moved into their mansion Biltmore Estate, built by the architect Richard Morris Hunt, in Asheville, North Carolina back. In 1912 he occupied with his wife a passage on the passenger ship RMS Titanic, but in the short term, they decided not to participate in the trip and booked on the RMS Olympic to. Your luggage and her servant Edwin Wheeler, however, were already on board the Titanic. Wheeler was killed in the accident.

1914 Vanderbilt died suddenly from the effects of an anesthesia error during an operation.