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Vanderbilt, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 553
Housing Units (2000): 234
Land area (2000): 0.184585 sq. miles (0.478072 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.184585 sq. miles (0.478072 sq. km)
FIPS code: 79768
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.034078 N, 79.663825 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 15486
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Vanderbilt, TX -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Texas
Population (2000): 411
Housing Units (2000): 163
Land area (2000): 1.892115 sq. miles (4.900555 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.892115 sq. miles (4.900555 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74984
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 28.822110 N, 96.615708 W
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Vanderbilt, MI -- U.S. village in Michigan
Population (2000): 587
Housing Units (2000): 269
Land area (2000): 1.106206 sq. miles (2.865059 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.106206 sq. miles (2.865059 sq. km)
FIPS code: 81700
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 45.143092 N, 84.661069 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 49795
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Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt may refer to:

Vanderbilt (surname)

Vanderbilt is a surname, and may refer to:

  • Amy Vanderbilt (1908-1974), American authority on etiquette, distant relative of the Vanderbilt family
  • Arthur T. Vanderbilt (1888–1957), noted American attorney, legal educator, and proponent of court modernization, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court 1948–1957
  • John Vanderbilt (1819–1877), American lawyer and politician from New York
  • The Vanderbilt family, a prominent family in the United States, including:
    • Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt I (1877-1915), wealthy American sportsman, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt II
    • Rita L. Vanderbilt (1957-) CEO of Capital Outdoor (one of the largest outdoor advertisement companies in the United States, Philanthropist, Charity Co-Chair, engineer, socialite, heir. (Mother became Vanderbilt by Marriage)
    • Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt II (1912–1999), American proponent of thoroughbred racing, son of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
    • Consuelo Vanderbilt (1877–1964), daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt, wife of Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough
    • Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (1900–1976), daughter of George Washington Vanderbilt II
    • Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877), known as "Commodore" Vanderbilt, American industrialist and philanthropist, patriarch of the Vanderbilt family
    • Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843–1899), American socialite, heir, and businessman, a grandson of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt
    • Cornelius Vanderbilt III (1873–1942), American military officer, inventor, engineer, and yachtsman, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt II
    • Cornelius Vanderbilt IV (1898–1974), American newspaper publisher, the son of Cornelius Vanderbilt III
    • Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (1899–1992), American businessman, film producer, writer, government official, and owner of a leading stable of thoroughbred racehorses, son of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
    • Emily Thorn Vanderbilt (1852–1946), daughter of William Henry Vanderbilt
    • Frederick William Vanderbilt (1856–1938), American railroad director, son of William Henry Vanderbilt
    • George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil (born 1925), American dairy industry businessman, son of Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt and grandson of George Washington Vanderbilt II
    • George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914), American businessman, the son of William Henry Vanderbilt
    • George Washington Vanderbilt III (1914–1961), American yachtsman and scientific explorer, a son of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt I
    • Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), an American sculptor, art patron, and art collector, prominent social figure and hostess, founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art, a daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt II
    • Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi (1886–1965), daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, wife of Hungarian Count László Széchenyi
    • Gloria Vanderbilt (born 1924), American artist, author, actress, heiress, socialite, and early developer of designer blue jeans, daughter of Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt
    • Harold Stirling Vanderbilt (1884–1970), American railroad executive, yachtsman, and champion bridge player, a son of William Kissam Vanderbilt
    • Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt (1880–1925), American millionaire equestrian, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt II
    • William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil (born 1928), American businessman, son of Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt and grandson of George Washington Vanderbilt II
    • William Henry Vanderbilt (1821–1885), American businessman, son of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt
    • William Henry Vanderbilt III (1901–1981), American bus executive and Rhode Island politician, Governor of Rhode Island 1939-1941, son of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
    • William Kissam Vanderbilt (1849–1920), American railroad executive and horse breeder, son of William Henry Vanderbilt
    • William Kissam Vanderbilt II (1878–1944), American motor racing enthusiast and yachtsman, son of William Kissam Vanderbilt

Usage examples of "vanderbilt".

Vanderbilts and the Astors--and in the homes of culture and refinement everywhere, and let him judge for himself.

Commodore Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, or even Bet-A-Million Gates for grifting their way to fame and fortune.

Johns Hopkins was founded by a millionaire merchant, and millionaires Cornelius Vanderbilt, Exra Cornell, James Duke, and Leland Stanford created universities in their own names.

Jan told us South Shore got the idea to fund artisans who were skilled but not creditworthy by conventional standards from the work of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, founded by Muhammad Yunus, who had studied economics at Vanderbilt University before going home to help his people.

But Libby left Ballston within a matter of weeks, to take the job with the Vanderbilts in New York.

The artifacts recovered by NUMA (sorry, no silver) were donated to the Vanderbilt Museum in Centerport, Long Island, for display to the public.

You are not a Vanderbilt, whose fortune was made by a vulgar tugboat captain, or a Rockefeller, whose wealth was amassed through unscrupulous speculations in crude petroleum.

He went on for a while, spinning yet another identity for himself -- a sort of diamond in the rough Commodore Vanderbilt type, straight-talking and mean as a snake.

Gore failed out of divinity school and dropped out of law school at Vanderbilt University.

This small volume contains the Shaffer Lectures which I delivered in October 1951 at Yale University Divinity School and the Cole Lectures, delivered at Vanderbilt University in November 1951.

We may want to keep up with the Joneses -- but not with the Vanderbilts.

We may want to keep up with the Joneses - but not with the Vanderbilts.

In ways I do not think Amy Vanderbilt would have approved: first, I blame the faint cavalier tone of adolescent sexism in this story--however innocent and moronically slaphappy it may be--on Huck.

The Vanderbilt Mutual Fund and the Provident Fund refuse to invest in liquor or tobacco shares.

Ehhif screamed and ran in all directions—out into the Graybar and Hyatt passages, out onto Forty-second Street, up the stairs to the Vanderbilt Avenue exit—as the saurians charged across the marble floor, and their shrieks of rage and hunger echoed under the high blue sky.