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Show VANDERBILT DIES IN PARIS. Head of Noted American Family and Noted Financier Succumbs to Illness. Paris. William K. Vanderbilt died here July 22, after a long illness. Mr. Vanderbilt was the eldest member mem-ber of the Vanderbilt family. He celebrated cele-brated his seventieth birthday on December De-cember 12, last. His only daughter, Consuelo, married the duke of Marlborough Marl-borough in 1895. During the war Mr. Vanderbilt was active in hospital work and relief abroad and in promoting the work of the Lafayette escadrille. Mr. Vanderbilt was born on Staten Island, N. Y., December 12, 18-19. After receiving an academical education in America he studied for several years in Geneva, Switzerland. He married Miss Alva Smith of Mobile, Ala. (now Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont), in 1874 and to them were born, besides Consuelo, two other children, William K., Jr., and Harold Vaderbilt. On April !)03. Mr. Vanderbilt married Mrs. A. H. Rutherford in London, England. |