Frank A. Vanderlip

Frank Arthur Vanderlip, Sr. was an American banker. He was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury from 18971901, and was president of the National City Bank from 1909 to 1919. Vanderlip created the Scarborough School at his property, Beechwood in Briarcliff Manor, New York. and founded the 16,000acrearea collectively known as Palos Verdes, California.

Frank A. Vanderlip was born in Aurora, Illinois on November 17, 1864 to Charles Edmond Vanderlip and Charlotte Louise Woodworth Vanderlip. His early life was spent on the family farm in nearby Oswego, Illinois until his father died in 1878. Vanderlip, his mother and his sister then moved into Aurora, where he went to work at the age ofat a lathe in a factory.

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