Gladys Moore <I>Vanderbilt</I> Széchenyi

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Gladys Moore Vanderbilt Széchenyi

Birth
Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
Death
29 Jan 1965 (aged 78)
Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA
Burial
New Dorp, Richmond County, New York, USA GPS-Latitude: 40.5850603, Longitude: -74.1217555
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Szechenyi/Szapary Plot
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Gladys Moore (Vanderbilt) Széchenyi was a Hungarian countess and a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family.

Countess Széchenyi was born Gladys Moore Vanderbilt, in 1886, the seventh and youngest child of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, the President and Chairman of the New York Central Railroad. Gladys grew up in the family home on Fifth Avenue in New York City, and their summer cottage, The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island.

Gladys Vanderbilt married Hungarian Count László Széchenyi on 27 January 1908 in New York.

From this union came five daughters only the youngest of whom survives today (2008).

1 Cornelia
2 Gladys
3 Alice
4 Sylvia
5 Ferdinandine
Gladys Moore (Vanderbilt) Széchenyi was a Hungarian countess and a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family.

Countess Széchenyi was born Gladys Moore Vanderbilt, in 1886, the seventh and youngest child of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, the President and Chairman of the New York Central Railroad. Gladys grew up in the family home on Fifth Avenue in New York City, and their summer cottage, The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island.

Gladys Vanderbilt married Hungarian Count László Széchenyi on 27 January 1908 in New York.

From this union came five daughters only the youngest of whom survives today (2008).

1 Cornelia
2 Gladys
3 Alice
4 Sylvia
5 Ferdinandine


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