Amos French was brother to Ellen (Elsie) Tuck French Vanderbilt Astor who married first Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt then divorced. He later went down with the Lusitania. The Frenches ancestrally were from Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Ellen (French) Vanderbilt and son William Vanderbilt kept famly homes there (Chester, NH) many of which were done over in the early part of the 20th century. In the late 1940s Bill Vanderbilt (Governor of Rhode Island) had only just lost his mother Elsie Tuck French Vanderbilt Astor in 1948 and when his cousins, the Count and Countess Hadik lost their Hungarian estate to the Communists arrived in New York as refugees. Bill Vanderbilt gave over all the French properties known as the "Vanderbilt Farms" to the Hadik family so they would have a place to live.
Amos French was brother to Ellen (Elsie) Tuck French Vanderbilt Astor who married first Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt then divorced. He later went down with the Lusitania. The Frenches ancestrally were from Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Ellen (French) Vanderbilt and son William Vanderbilt kept famly homes there (Chester, NH) many of which were done over in the early part of the 20th century. In the late 1940s Bill Vanderbilt (Governor of Rhode Island) had only just lost his mother Elsie Tuck French Vanderbilt Astor in 1948 and when his cousins, the Count and Countess Hadik lost their Hungarian estate to the Communists arrived in New York as refugees. Bill Vanderbilt gave over all the French properties known as the "Vanderbilt Farms" to the Hadik family so they would have a place to live.
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