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Frank Armstrong Crawford-Vanderbilt (January 18, 1839 – May 4, 1885) was an American socialite and philanthropist. During the American Civil War, she was a strong supporter of the Confederate States of America. After the war, she lived in New York City and married multi-millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Frank Armstrong Crawford was the wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the founder of Vanderbilt University. She influenced him to support a Southern Methodist institution and corresponded with Bishop McTyeire.
Apr 11, 2011 · On Aug. 21, 1869, Vanderbilt married the oddly named Frank Armstrong Crawford. He was 75; she was 32, and his second wife. She was also from Mobile, Ala., and an unrepentant Confederate.
Mar 18, 2021 · In 1873, Vanderbilt’s second wife, an Alabaman named Frank Armstrong Crawford, convinced Vanderbilt to make a half-million dollar donation to McTyeire to found the university. Crawford prided herself on being a rebel and was a staunch Confederate during the war.
Vanderbilt University would not exist today if it were not for two women: Amelia McTyeire and Frank Vanderbilt. Bishop McTyeire gained access to Cornelius Vanderbilt through his wife Amelia’s familial connection with Vanderbilt’s second wife Frank.
Frank Armstrong Crawford was the wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who endowed the Central University of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1873. She and her cousin Amelia McTyeire helped strengthen the ties between the North and the South by supporting Vanderbilt's education and research.
Frank married Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794 - 1877) on 21 Aug 1869 in London, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada. Frank died on 4 May 1885 in New York, New York aged 46. Frank Armstrong Crawford Vanderbilt was a 19th century American socialite and philanthropist.
