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          Edith Stuyvesant Gerry

          American philanthropist

          Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt Gerry (née Dresser; January 17, – December 21, ) was an American philanthropist and wife of George Washington Vanderbilt II and Peter Goelet Gerry, a United States senator from Rhode Island.[1]

          Early life

          Edith Stuyvesant Dresser was born on January 17, , in Newport, Rhode Island, to Major George Warren Dresser (–) and Susan Fish Le Roy (–).[2] She was the great-niece of Hamilton Fish (–), a U.S.

          Secretary of State, U.S. Senator, and New York Governor. Through the Fish family, she was a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, the last governor of Dutch colonial New York through Hamilton Fish's mother, Elizabeth Stuyvesant, Peter Stuyvesant's great-great-granddaughter.[3] She was orphaned at the age of 10 and was raised by her maternal grandmother.

          Her elder brother was Daniel LeRoy Dresser, a shipbuilder.[4] She and her sisters, collectively known as the "Dresse