Mrs. Alva Vanderbilt ... and formerly the wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt, was married yesterday morning at 10 o'clock to Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, a son of the late August Belmont, the ...

Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, Newport’s Gilded Age socialite ... new mansion on Fifth Avenue in New York, where Alva would dress as a Venetian renaissance princess. - And she invites all of high ...

Alva made sure things happened very fast from there. In 1875, a New York City wedding ... with Oliver Belmont may have been a cry for help—a way of getting back at William Vanderbilt for his ...

The NWP was formed by suffragette leader Alice Paul and by unexpected women’s rights advocate, wealthy Long Island socialite Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, the party’s president and primary benefactor.

The Historic Oakleigh House Museum has loaned its portrait of Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont to the Sewall-Belmont House Museum in Washington, D.C., where it will be unveiled this month in honor of ...