Heiress, Philanthropist, Horse Trainer, Stable Owner, daughter of William K. Vanderbilt and Virginia Graham Fair. she married Fredrick Cameron Church Jr on July 25, 1925. at her wedding Miss Vanderbilt yielded to the wish of her bridegroom, who wanted a Protestant service, although the bride was a Roman Catholic, in 1929 she purchased a coach that once had carried passengers from New York to Tarrytown and from New York to Atlantic City and trained four of her horses as a coaching four. She practiced coaching on the roads about her Newport, R. I., estate, Dudley Place, then put on a coaching exhibition on Bellevue Avenue. in 1930 the marriage ended in divorce. Muriel then married Henry Delafield Phelps on September 11, 1931. this marriage ended in divorce. Her Newport estate, which covered 16½ acres, was divided in 1937 into 81 lots for small homes. Muriel headed west buying a ranch in California, this is where she met & married John Payson Adams on August 29, 1944 in San Francisco. In 1956 Mrs. Adams sold her training and breeding ranch, Edenvale Farm in San Jose, Calif., to Samuel Hamburger of San Francisco, for $650,000. He in turn sold it to real estate developers for a reported sum of $1 million. Muriels final marriage ended in divorce in 1969. Mrs. Adams was a well-known horsewoman and had won many blue ribbons at major horse shows in the East including the annual show in Madison Square Garden. Muriel was visiting her sister Consuelo in Golden Beach, Florida when she started having what was a heart attack, she was taken to a doctors office where she died.
Heiress, Philanthropist, Horse Trainer, Stable Owner, daughter of William K. Vanderbilt and Virginia Graham Fair. she married Fredrick Cameron Church Jr on July 25, 1925. at her wedding Miss Vanderbilt yielded to the wish of her bridegroom, who wanted a Protestant service, although the bride was a Roman Catholic, in 1929 she purchased a coach that once had carried passengers from New York to Tarrytown and from New York to Atlantic City and trained four of her horses as a coaching four. She practiced coaching on the roads about her Newport, R. I., estate, Dudley Place, then put on a coaching exhibition on Bellevue Avenue. in 1930 the marriage ended in divorce. Muriel then married Henry Delafield Phelps on September 11, 1931. this marriage ended in divorce. Her Newport estate, which covered 16½ acres, was divided in 1937 into 81 lots for small homes. Muriel headed west buying a ranch in California, this is where she met & married John Payson Adams on August 29, 1944 in San Francisco. In 1956 Mrs. Adams sold her training and breeding ranch, Edenvale Farm in San Jose, Calif., to Samuel Hamburger of San Francisco, for $650,000. He in turn sold it to real estate developers for a reported sum of $1 million. Muriels final marriage ended in divorce in 1969. Mrs. Adams was a well-known horsewoman and had won many blue ribbons at major horse shows in the East including the annual show in Madison Square Garden. Muriel was visiting her sister Consuelo in Golden Beach, Florida when she started having what was a heart attack, she was taken to a doctors office where she died.
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