America's Secret Aristocracy (55 page)

Union League Club,
209

University Club,
47

Untermyer, Samuel,
208

Upper Ten,
114

Van Alen, James,
298

Van Amringe, Emily,
226

Van Buren, John,
113

Van Cortlandt, Eve Philipse,
38

Van Cortlandt, Jacobus,
38

Van Cortlandt, Mary Anna,
38

Van Cortlandt, Stephanus,
31

Vanderbilt, Commodore Cornelius,
121

Vanderbilt, Gloria,
254

Vanderbilt, William H.,
241

Vanderbilt family,
13

Van Rensselaer, Alida,
35–36

Van Rensselaer, Johannes,
36

Van Rensselaer, Mrs. John King,
13
,
14
,
49
,
205

Van Rensselaer, Kiliaen,
31

Van Rensselaer, Nicholas,
33–36

Van Rensselaer, Stephen,
31

Van Rosenvelt, Klaes Martensen,
126

Van Stantvoord, George,
248–53

Vassar College,
5

Vaughan, Major General Harry H.,
162

Veblen, Thorstein,
227

Veiled Prophet's Ball,
171

Vevers, Tony,
242

von Bülow, Claus,
294
,
298

von Hohenzollern, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm,
175–76

Wade, Eleanor Jay Iselin,
312–14

Wagner, Robert, Jr.,
242

Wagstaff, Samuel, Jr.,
242

Walpole, Horace,
59

Wanamaker, Virginia Thaw,
287

Ward, Maria,
98

Washington, George,
10
,
22
,
60–61
,
66

Washington, Martha,
61

Washington aristocracy,
162–66

Wealth,
7
,
37–45

gospel of,
231

Wector, Dixon,
158
,
178

Westinghouse, Mrs. George,
233

Wharton, Edith,
217
,
219

White, Richard Mansfield,
285

White, Stanford,
285–87

Whitehouse, Norman de R.,
235

Whitney, Richard,
243

Whitridge, Arnold,
211

Williams, Gray,
242

Williams, Roger,
292

Willing, Thomas,
105–06

Winthrop, John,
140

Winthrop family,
33

Wright, Louis B.,
160

Wriston, Merritt,
294

Wynne family,
16

Yorba, Bernardo,
195–96

Zodiac Club, The,
205–06
,
210–11
,
214–15

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‘Excerpts from “The Lives of the Cave Dwellers” by Barbara Gamarekian,
New York Times
, March 26, 1985, copyright © 1985 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission.

Copyright © 1987 by Stephen Birmingham

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