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    Alva Erskine Belmont (née Smith; January 17, 1853 – January 26, 1933), known as Alva Vanderbilt from 1875 to 1896, was an American multi-millionaire socialite...
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    Maitland Armstrong. His second wife, Alva Belmont, was buried alongside him after her death in 1933. Notes "O.H.P. Belmont Dead After Brave Fight. He Succumbs...
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    The Belmont–Paul Women's Equality National Monument (formerly the Sewall House (1800–1929), Alva Belmont House (1929–1972), and the Sewall–Belmont House...
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  • (NWP) and recruits Alva Belmont, a wealthy socialite and NAWSA donor, to fund it and continue with their anti-Wilson efforts ("Alva Belmont"). The NWP plans...
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    in 1951. The house was completed in 1909 for socialite Alva Belmont, the widow of Oliver Belmont. It was designed by Hunt & Hunt, formed by the partnership...
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  • politician Alva, a character in the Adventure Time miniseries "Islands" Alva Belmont (1853–1933), American socialite and suffragette Alva Challis (1930...
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    Belcourt of Newport (category Belmont family residences)
    Belcourt, Alva made changes that morphed the already eccentric character of Belcourt into a yet more eccentric hybrid mixture of styles. Alva Belmont converted...
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    society was filled by three women: Mamie Fish, Theresa Fair Oelrichs, and Alva Belmont, known as the "triumvirate" of American society. On February 16, 1892...
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  • 1875) was an American commission merchant best known as the father of Alva Belmont. Smith was born on July 21, 1814, in Dumfries, Virginia. He was a son...
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  • William Seward Webb (1851–1926): husband of Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt Webb Alva Belmont (1853–1933): 1st wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt Louise Vanderbilt...
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  • least partly based on the formidable Alva and William K. Vanderbilt. Alva Erskine Vanderbilt (later Alva Belmont) came from a wealthy Mobile, Alabama...
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    Brookholt (category Belmont family residences)
    Street in East Meadow, Long Island, New York. It was built for Oliver and Alva Belmont in 1897. Designed by Richard Howland Hunt, the house was built in the...
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  • Belmont is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alva Belmont (1853–1933), American socialite and suffrage supporter Andy Belmont (born...
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    Obama designated Sewall-Belmont House as the Belmont–Paul Women's Equality National Monument, named for Alice Paul and Alva Belmont. The University of Pennsylvania...
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    Beacon Towers (category Belmont family residences)
    built from 1917 to 1918 for Alva Belmont, the ex-wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt and the widow, since 1908, of Oliver Belmont. The mansion was designed...
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    Theresa Fair Oelrichs, the wife of Hermann Oelrichs, and Alva Belmont, by then the wife of Oliver Belmont. Mrs. Astor has been portrayed by Donna Murphy in the...
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    Shultz, Scott G. (1998). Sewall–Belmont House (Alva Belmont House) (National Woman's Party Headquarters). Sewall-Belmont House National Historic Site (PDF)...
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    the book. The extravagant Gothic-style residence was built by Alva Belmont, formerly Alva Vanderbilt, in 1918. It was demolished in 1945. "ArcGIS REST...
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    Avenue, was originally called Barnum Avenue. The Oliver and Alva Belmont (formerly Alva Vanderbilt) estate of Brookholt once stretched across several...
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    extensive alterations to Belcourt, the Newport residence of Oliver and Alva Belmont. The Georgian Revival residence he built in 1919 for Thomas H. Frothingham...
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    Marble House (category Belmont family residences)
    on the seaside cliff, where she hosted rallies for women's suffrage. Alva Belmont closed the mansion permanently in 1919, when she relocated to France...
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    1920, Alva Belmont was elected president of the NWP and Stevens served as Belmont’s personal assistant, even writing Belmont's autobiography. Belmont and...
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    Allender Caroline Lexow Babcock Abby Scott Baker Mary Ritter Beard Alva Belmont Harriot Stanton Blatch Lucy Burns Marion Cothren Dorothy Day Amelia Earhart...
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    (1850–1901), was married to Mary Virginia "Jennie" Smith, sister of Alva Belmont, Consuelo's childhood best friend. Vanderbilt's daughter Consuelo Vanderbilt...
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    as Belmont's farm school for girls) was an experimental American farm vocational school for women. Established on April 1, 1911, by Alva Belmont on her...
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  • Barney Brokerage Alva Belmont, socialite and leader of women's rights movement August Belmont, financier Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, socialite, builder...
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    the so-called Triumvirate, made up of herself, Mamie Fish and Alva Belmont. Where Alva was the extravagant hostess and Mamie threw exotic and often raucous...
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    In the summer of 1926 the estate was purchased by American socialite Alva Belmont, formerly Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt, who restored it as her primary...
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    Root IV (1911-1995), and a daughter Alva de Acosta Root (born 1914 and named for suffragette-heiress Alva Belmont). Colonel Henry S. Breckinridge, whom...
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    of the Knickerbocker Trust Company Alva Belmont, socialite, woman's suffragist Oliver Belmont, son of August Belmont Harvey R. Blau, former mayor and deputy...
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