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- Son of Charles S. Raymond and Mary Anna Vanderbilt, husband of Evangeline "Rose" Sotiriades, whom he married on July 16, 1920 in Keeley, Constantinople. Grandson of John and Jennette Raymond.
In 1900, Vanderbilt Raymond, aged 7, was shown living in Fanwood, Union, New Jersey, with his widowed mother, Mary A. Raymond, aged 47, and siblings, Jeannette Raymond, aged 17, and Henrietta Raymond, aged 11. His mother was shown to be a laundress.
Vanderbilt Raymond, aged 25, born July 4, 1891 in Brooklyn, NY, single, was shown living on Rockville Centre Parkway, Oceanside, NY at the time that he registered for the draft during World War I in 1917. He gave his occupation as that of sea faring, unemployed.
Vanderbilt was inducted into the Army on October 8, 1917, age 28, where he worked as a cook, attending the School for Cooks and Bakers at Camp Upton, NY until his honorable discharge, July 15, 1919.
In October of 1918, he married Sarah Belle "Sadie" Peterson. The marriage was later annulled as she had not been freed from her first husband, John Lascuk (Lessey), whom she had married in 1914, at the time of their marriage. She was indicted and convicted on the charge of bigamy and sentenced to Auburn prison.
On January 28, 1920, Vanderbilt was shown as a discharged seaman aboard the SS Bird City, age 30, of NY. He was also shown arriving in New York on April 29, 1920, aboard the same ship, the S.S. Bird City, aged 30.
On July 16, 1920, Vanderbilt Raymond, aged 30, of Brooklyn, NY, residing in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), married Evangeline Sotiriadez, a subject of the Ottoman Empire, aged 22, born in Constantinople, and residing in Constantinople, at Impasse Hayden, Pera., in the city of Constantinople, by the Reverend Mathew B. Houston, C.F., and in the presence of James H. Keeley, Jr., Vice Consul, U.S., Constantinople.
He applied for an emergency passport on July 19, 1920 for he and his wife Rose Raymond to go to Pireas, Constantinople, Turkey to work as a cook for Standard Oil Co. of New York. He gave his legal domicile as Patchogue, L.I. NY, birth date July 4, 1889, Brookyn, NY, and submitted a Citizen Seaman's Identification Card No. 29398, issued by the Collector of Customs, NY as well as a Marriage Certificate issued by Vice Consul Keeley, Constantinople, on July 16, 1920. Vanderbilt was described as being 5' 5 1/2" with brown hair, blue eyes, ruddy complexion and tattoos on both arms.
On August 31, 1921, Vanderbilt Raymond, aged 32, of Ocean Avenue, Patchogue, was killed when a motor truck he was riding in, owned by the South Shore Transportation Company, crashed into an elevated road pillar at Bowery and Hester Streets, Manhattan, NY, caught on fire and exploded. The truck was loaded with several thousand freshly killed ducks, heading from Patchogue to the Willis Avenue yards of the New Haven & Hartford Railroad in the Bronx. James Duffy, the driver of the truck, suffered serious burns and fractures of both legs. He was taken to Gouveneur Hospital, where he later died.
(Records of Cedar Grove Cemetery; 1900, 1920 US Federal Census; New York, Abstracts of World War I Military Service, 1917-1919; Vanderbilt Raymond in the U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918; The County review., October 24, 1918, Page 1; Vanderbilt Raymond in the New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957; U.S., Consular Reports of Marriages, 1910-1949 for Vauderbilt Raymond; 1920-1920, File #s 133/1457-133/1649; U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925; Suffolk County News (Sayville), Friday, September 02, 1921, Page: 1; The County review., September 09, 1921, Page 17; Drinda Nigbur)
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