Emily Thorn Sloane Vanderbilt

• Emily's birth, painting, and death information are available at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/229286771/emily-thorn-white
• The painting of Emily is used courtesy of Bobby Kelley, Find A Grave ID 46959922.
• Spouse 1:
  • William Douglas Sloane
  • Born: 1844
  • Died: 1915 in Aiken, [county], South Carolina, USA
  • Marriage: 1872 View Info
  • Children:
    • Florence Adele Sloane, 1873-1960
    • Emily Vanderbilt Sloane, 1874-1970
    • Lila Vanderbilt Sloane, 1878-1934
    • William Douglas Sloane, 1882-1884
    • Malcolm Douglas Sloane,1885-1924
• Spouse 2
  • Henry White
  • Born: 1850 in [city], [county], Maryland, USA
  • Died: 15 Jul 1927 in Old Stockbridge Rd, Lenox, Massachusetts, USA
  • Marriage: 1920 in St Bartholomews, New York, New York, USA View Info
  • Children:

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Emily Vanderbilt Sloane 1852-1946

In 1886, heiress Emily Vanderbilt Sloane and her husband, William Douglas Sloane, began construction of a summer residence "Elm Court", Lenox Massachusetts, a 110-room, 78,000-square-foot mansion, one of the greatest of the 19th-century Berkshire "cottages." It took the Sloanes more than 14 years to finally complete Elm Court, a New England mansion replete with gables, terraces, gardens, a solarium, fireplaces and a spectacular stone fountain in the courtyard. The complex was expanded in 1902 to become the largest private greenhouse complex in the country. Each greenhouse was designed by the English company Lord and Burnham, leaders in 19th century greenhouse technology. The greenhouses feature a main building and seventeen growing areas with massive brick foundations, thousands of feet of steel pipe for heating and Louisiana cypress wood mullions.

The second daughter of William Henry Vanderbilt (1821 - 1885) and Maria Louisa Kissam (1821 - 1896), Emily Thorn Vanderbilt was named after her aunt, Emily Almira (Vanderbilt) Thorn, daughter of dynasty founder Cornelius Vanderbilt.

She married William Douglas Sloane, and they had three daughters and two sons. After Sloane's death, Emily married Henry White, in 1920, American Ambassador to France and Italy, and a signer of the Treaty of Versailles.

Emily Thorn Vanderbilt Sloane White's grandchildren include Alice Frances Hammond, wife of jazz musician Benny Goodman, and her brother John Henry Hammond II, talent scout.

Emily Thorn Vanderbilt (1852 – July 29, 1946) was an American philanthropist and a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family. She financed the creation of New York's Sloane Hospital for Women in 1888 with an endowment of more than $1,000,000.[1][2]

Early life She was born in 1852 as the second daughter of William Henry Vanderbilt (1821–1885) and Maria Louisa Kissam (1821–1896). Her paternal grandparents were Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877) and his wife, Sophia Johnson (1795–1868).

Marriage and later life She married William Douglas Sloane, the brother of Henry T. Sloane of the carpet firm W. & J. Sloane, and they had three daughters and two sons.[3] In 1885, she and her husband commissioned Peabody and Stearns to build Elm Court, the mammoth shingle-style 'cottage' in Lenox, Massachusetts.

In 1920, after Sloane's death, she married Henry White (1850–1927), American Ambassador to France and Italy, and a signatory of the Treaty of Versailles.

She died on July 29, 1946 in Lenox, Massachusetts.

Legacy She financed the creation of New York's Sloane Hospital for Women with an endowment of more than $1,000,000. The hospital is now part of NewYork-Presbyterian / Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital and still in use today.

Emily Vanderbilt Sloane White. Second daughter, and fourth child, of William Henry Vanderbilt (1821-1885), and Maria Louisa Kissam Vanderbilt (1821-1896); grand daughter of 'Commodore' Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877), founder of the family fortune. Wife of William Douglas Sloane (1844-1915), president of the W. & J. Sloane Company; furniture makers and decorators. Charitably minded, together they founded the Sloane Maternity Hospital in New York, the first of its kind. Renowned hostess of New York aristocracy's golden era, who, along with her sister, Florence Vanderbilt Twombly; her sister-in-law, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt; and friends, Ruth Livingston Mills, and Mrs. Elbridge T. Gerry, came to exercise complete dominance over "Old Guard" New York and Newport Society. Widowed five years, in 1920 she married superb diplomat, and family friend, Henry White, a widower of age seventy. In the words of Theodore Roosevelt, "The most useful man in the entire diplomatic service." Widowed again, in 1927, she lived on for another score of years entertaining at her New York townhouse, and at her vast country estate, 'Elm Court', in Lenox, Massachusetts ~ of 93 rooms it was the largest shingle-style house ever constructed; its greenhouses, providing flowers and fruits in all seasons, covered over two acres of land. At moments she had moved those on Fifth Avenue, and in Lenox, with the fatal luxury of her exquisite maroon Rolls Royce, of the Vanderbilt fleet. Her ample fortune allowing such elegance throughout her lifetime. Passing away peacefully in Lenox, her service was held there at Trinity Church, with music provided by her favorite organist, Archer Gibson, assisted by Johnston F. Stewart. (bio by: [fg.cgi?page=mr&MRid=46568831" target="_blank R. Bruce)]

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jul 1 2018, 23:53:53 UTC

Emily Vanderbilt Sloane White. Second daughter, and fourth child, of William Henry Vanderbilt (1821-1885), and Maria Louisa Kissam Vanderbilt (1821-1896); grand daughter of 'Commodore' Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877), founder of the family fortune. Wife of William Douglas Sloane (1844-1915), president of the W. & J. Sloane Company; furniture makers and decorators. Charitably minded, together they founded the Sloane Maternity Hospital in New York, the first of its kind. Renowned hostess of New York aristocracy's golden era, who, along with her sister, Florence Vanderbilt Twombly; her sister-in-law, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt; and friends, Ruth Livingston Mills, and Mrs. Elbridge T. Gerry, came to exercise complete dominance over "Old Guard" New York and Newport Society. Widowed five years, in 1920 she married superb diplomat, and family friend, Henry White, a widower of age seventy. In the words of Theodore Roosevelt, "The most useful man in the entire diplomatic service." Widowed again, in 1927, she lived on for another score of years entertaining at her New York townhouse, and at her vast country estate, 'Elm Court', in Lenox, Massachusetts ~ of 93 rooms it was the largest shingle-style house ever constructed; its greenhouses, providing flowers and fruits in all seasons, covered over two acres of land. At moments she had moved those on Fifth Avenue, and in Lenox, with the fatal luxury of her exquisite maroon Rolls Royce, of the Vanderbilt fleet. Her ample fortune allowing such elegance throughout her lifetime. Passing away peacefully in Lenox, her service was held there at Trinity Church, with music provided by her favorite organist, Archer Gibson, assisted by Johnston F. Stewart.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jun 21 2020, 1:30:40 UTC