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The Cyclopedia of American Biography Enlarged Edition of Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography THE PRESS ASSOCIATION COMPILERS, INC., 17 Madison Avenue, New York Mar261924 WHITNEY, GERTRUDE VANDERBILT, sculptor, b. in New York City, daughter of Cornelius and Alice Claypoole (Gwynne) Vanderbilt. The Vanderbilt family traced its descent from Jan Aertsen Van der Bilt who came from Friesland, the Netherlands, and settled in Flatbush, Long Island, in 1650. His son moved in 1715 to New Dorp, Staten Island, and his great-great-grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) known as the Commodore, who married his cousin, Sophia Johnson, made his home in the City of