Titles From Birth To Death
- 1875-1896: Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt
- 1896-1930: Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney
- 1930-1942: Mrs. Gertrude Whitney
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Famous quotes containing the words titles, birth and/or death:
“I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“I don’t know much about death and the sorriest lesson I’ve learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone’s dying.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)