Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1901 — First of the Vanderbilte. [ARTICLE]

First of the Vanderbilte.

( pf 11)9 VatKlcrbJUs lu this epoptO’ was dan AerUeu Vau tier Blit, a Holla ml farmer, who came to the new world In tlx* first half of the sevent<*enfh century, nnd who rettiad'-ftf the ilelghlkithobd of Brooklyn, glwirt IUSO. A* tho nauxi iinlUatv*. tlaj family belonged originally fd either the village ot Blit, n of Utrechf, or»the parish of Blit, lii If’r'jsin.