New-York tribune., 1920-07-23
". XIV anderbilt
Dies Suddenly
In Paris Home
Wife and Children of u. S.
Millionaire at Bedside
When End Comes After
Recurrence of Illness
He Was 20 Years Old
Body Will Be Brought Here
for Burial in the Family
Plot on Staten Island

PARIS, July 22-William X. Van
derbilt, noted American fnancier and
sportsman, died here at o'clock this
evening after a sudden recurrence of
the illness with which he was stricken
at the Auteuil races April Is. He was
seventy years old.
At Mr.. Vanderbilt's bedside when he
died were his wife, his daughter, the
Duchess of Marlborough; his two sons
| William X. jr. and Harold, and DR.
Edward Gross, the family physician in
Paris.
The funeral will be held Monday
from the American Church, in Paris
The body later will be taken to the
United States, where it will be buried
in the Vanderbilt family plot or
( Staten Island.
Born at New Dorp, Staten Island
The quaint old town of New Dorp
Staten Island, was the birthplace o1
William Kissam Vanderbilt. At thai
time it was still the rural community
in which his ancestors from Holland
had been farmers and market garden
ers. His grandfather, Commodore Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, dwelt there, anC
thence set out upon his masterfu
career in the shipping, railroad anc
financial world, and there his father
William Henry Vanderbilt, lived on a
large farm.
William X. Vanderbilt was born or
December II, 1849, the second son OF
his parents, receiving as his middle
name the family name of his mother
who had been Miss Maria Louisa Kis-
sam. His early education was received
from private tutors in New York, ane
then he was sent to Geneva, Switzer
land, where he remained for number
of years completing thorough anc
comprehensive course of study.
Before he was fairly out of his teens
he returned to this country and fol
lowed the example of his father ane
grandfather by entering the Offices o,
the great railroad system, which hac
become family possession. He began
too, at the bottom, in a poorly paie
clerical position in the Office of C. c
Clarke, then treasurer of the Hudson
River Railroad.
Advanced Grade by Grade
He drudged at the routine of book
keeping and worked his way upward
grade by grade, until. in 1877 he was
made second president of the New
York Central & Hudson River Railroad
Company, place which he filled fol
six years and which he made an office
of hard work and important influence
He had by this time developed in 6
marked degree the qualities which hac
distinguished his father and grand
father, in keen perception, sound bust.
ness judgment and understanding OF
human nature.
While holding the second vice-presi.
dedncy of the N. Y. C. & II. r. r
Mr.. Vanderbilt became also the
president and chairman of the board
of directors of the New York, Chicago
& st. Louis Railroad, holding that
place until 1898, and chairman of the
board of directors of the Lake Shore
& Michigan Southern Railroad. He
also was connected in official capacities
with other companies allied with the
Vanderbilt system. During the life
time of his father and afterward Of his
elder brother, the second Cornelius
Vanderbilt, however, he was compare,
lively little known to the public save
by name. His elders were at the heac
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