Emily Thorn Vanderbilt
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Mrs. William Douglas Sloane (Emily Thorn Vanderbilt) by Benjamin Curtis Porter
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| Born | 1852 Staten Island, New York |
| Died | July 29, 1946 Lenox, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | Philanthropist |
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Emily Thorn Vanderbilt (1852 – July 29, 1946) was an American philanthropist and a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family. She financed the creation of New York's Sloane Hospital for Women in 1888 with an endowment of more than $1,000,000.
She was born in 1852 as the second daughter of William Henry Vanderbilt (1821–1885) and Maria Louisa Kissam (1821–1896). Her paternal grandparents were Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877) and his wife, Sophia Johnson (1795–1868).
She married William Douglas Sloane, the brother of Henry T. Sloane of the carpet firm W. & J. Sloane, and they had three daughters and two sons. In 1885, she and her husband commissioned Peabody and Stearns to build , the mammoth shingle-style 'cottage' in Lenox, Massachusetts.
In 1920, after Sloane's death, she married Henry White (1850–1927), American Ambassador to France and Italy, and a signer of the Treaty of Versailles.
She died on July 29, 1946 in Lenox, Massachusetts.
She financed the creation of New York's Sloane Hospital for Women with an endowment of more than $1,000,000. The hospital is now part of NewYork-Presbyterian / Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital and still in use today.
Emily Thorn Vanderbilt Sloane White's grandchildren include Adele Hammond, paternal grandmother of actor Timothy Olyphant, Alice Frances Hammond, wife of jazz musician Benny Goodman, Rachel Hammond, wife of Manley D. Breck and cattle breeder, and John Henry Hammond II, talent scout.
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