Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1901 — First of the Vanderbilts [ARTICLE]

First of the Vanderbilts

The first of the Vanderbilts in this country was Jan Aertsen Van der Bilt, a Holland farmer, who came to the new world in the first half of the seventeenth century, and who settled in the neighborhood of Brooklyn about 1650. As the name indicates, the family belonged originally to either the village of Bilt, a suburb of Utrecht, or the parish of Bilt, in Frisia.