1. Muriel Vanderbilt was the daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt II and Virginia Graham Fair.
10 Facts About Muriel Vanderbilt
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Harold Stirling Muriel Vanderbilt was her uncle and Consuelo Muriel Vanderbilt, the Duchess of Marlborough until her divorce from Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough in 1921, was her aunt.
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Muriel Vanderbilt's maternal grandfather, James Graham Fair, was a United States senator from Nevada who made a large fortune investing in silver mines on the Comstock Lode.
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Muriel Vanderbilt's parents separated when she was a small girl and she would grow up on Long Island and on the West Coast of the United States where her mother had been born.
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Muriel Vanderbilt shared her father and grandfather Vanderbilt's love of horses.
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Muriel Vanderbilt's mother was a fan of Thoroughbred horse racing and established Fair Stable that in 1924 and 1925 won back-to-back Horse of the Year honors with Sarazen.
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Muriel Vanderbilt owned a ranch in Carmel Valley, California, where she built stables and kept thoroughbred racehorses.
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Later in life, Muriel Vanderbilt Adams owned an 80-acre horse farm in Marion County, Florida.
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Muriel Vanderbilt married three times, the first in 1925 to Frederic Cameron Church, Jr.
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Muriel Vanderbilt died in Florida on February 3,1972, at the age of seventy-one.