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Frank Armstrong Crawford-Vanderbilt (January 18, 1839 – May 4, 1885) was an American socialite and philanthropist. During the American Civil War, she was a strong supporter of the Confederate States of America. After the war, she lived in New York City and married multi-millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt.
11 de abr. de 2011 · On Aug. 21, 1869, Vanderbilt married the oddly named Frank Armstrong Crawford. He was 75; she was 32, and his second wife. She was also from Mobile, Ala., and an unrepentant Confederate.
Frank Armstrong Crawford was the wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the founder of Vanderbilt University. She influenced him to support a Southern Methodist institution and corresponded with Bishop McTyeire.
The Vanderbilt family is an American family who gained prominence during the Gilded Age. Their success began with the shipping and railroad empires of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the family expanded into various other areas of industry and philanthropy.
Frank Armstrong Crawford was the wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who endowed the Central University of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1873. She and her cousin Amelia McTyeire helped strengthen the ties between the North and the South by supporting Vanderbilt's education and research.
18 de mar. de 2021 · In 1873, Vanderbilt’s second wife, an Alabaman named Frank Armstrong Crawford, convinced Vanderbilt to make a half-million dollar donation to McTyeire to found the university. Crawford prided herself on being a rebel and was a staunch Confederate during the war.
Vanderbilt University would not exist today if it were not for two women: Amelia McTyeire and Frank Vanderbilt. Bishop McTyeire gained access to Cornelius Vanderbilt through his wife Amelia’s familial connection with Vanderbilt’s second wife Frank.
