The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-05-15

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son are still unmarried.
! William Henry was the next child.
He married the daughter of the late Mr..
kissam, the clergyman. He has seven
children.
William IL. has Il son and two daugh-
tiers married, and two sons and two
daughters are yet single. He occupies
one of the finest residences in the city,
at 4;59 Filth Avenue.
Sophia was the next child. She mar
ricd Daniel Torrance, OF this city, who
was long President Of the Ohio and
Mississippi Railroad, and is worth
have three children, one boy and two
girls. They live ut 379 Fifth Avenue.
One daughter is married to Meredith
Howland, Esq. who i q very wealthy
man.
| Maria Louise was the next child.
She married the late Horace T.. CLARK,
who died leaving Il fortune Of about $2.-
OO0, 900 to 50, ,OOO, 900 and one child, u
daughter, married to Clarence Collins. of
Connecticut.
Maria Elicia was the eighth. She
married Nicholas b. lie Bon, who was
formerly member of Congress from this
State, and who died last September.
He left four children, two daughters
J NLN WV SouS, sAthV TASS)VN's tue SNlA-
dren are all unmarried.
The next child was II boy, who died
ut the age of seven years.
The next was Cornelius J :, or, as he
is accustomed to sign himself, Cornelius,
Jr. He married a granddaughter of
Chief Justice Williams OH one side and
| Olive Ellsworth on the other. She
died two years ago, leaving no chill.
dren.
! The eleventh child was Frances, who
WAS feeble in health all her life. She
was never married ami died ut the age
| of forty.
The twelfth was George, who served
in the late war with gallantry. He
graduated ut West Point, and was on
General Tyler's staff. He died single,
six.
The next and last child WAS Catha-
rine, who married Smith Baker, n son
of Isaac q. Baker. He died three years
ago, and she married afterwards NJ.
Iatitte, of Paris, where she is now liv-
ing with him and her five children,
two girls and three boys, tho eldest Of
whom is now in college.
The parents of the Commodore lived
to an advanced age, his father dying in
his scvcnty-fifth year, and his mother
| living to the age of siNty-eight.
One year after his wife's death, Com
modorc Vanderbilt married Miss Fran
ccs Crawford, OF Mobile, with whom he
lives very happily. His will has been
made for nearly twenty years, and he
is said to overhaul it every year, max
ing additions or changing it as he
thinks proper. Some one once said to
him: "NOu ought to he very careful
about your will, Commodore, for where
there arc such vast interests ut stake
there may be endless trouble and litiga-
tion.' To which he is reported to have
said: "What the HI tlO ! care what
they do with money after L am gone?
shall take good care of it while
l am here, and after that it does
me no good" Still 1t is believed he
docs care, and that his plan is to pce-
serve the bulk Of his fortune in the
shape in which he will leave it, at least
during the generation which next suc-
cccds him.
OF course, Com. Vanderbilt i. sur
rounded with Il vast number of hangers
on and f,voritcs but he allows none
around him who are troublesome, and
it is more than doubtful if any of them
have any influence over him to the cX-
tent of making that influence pecuni-
arity profitable. He receives thOitsa nds
of begging letters and never reads any
of them. Tie keeps his money contin-
ually invested, and keeps only mod
crate amount on deposit. He has only
two banks of deposit. lie fitted out the
. Banks expedition during the war ut an
expense Of over three hundred thousand
dollars, and presented the steamer Van
dcrbiit to the Government after laying
out 81 ,Oo0, 900 in fitting her rs ram to
l,<,
gave $500, 900 to the Vanderbilt Univer.
sity at Nashville, paid for the Church
of the Strangers in this city, and has
given large amounts in charities. He
supports II Moravinn Church at Staten
Island, near which is the tomb which
he caused to be built for his final rest
ing place. He never gives money in
indiscriminate charities, and only gives
when nc has satisfied himself that his
chnrity will accomplish real good.
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