William Kissam Vanderbilt II (1878–1944) was a motor racing enthusiast, yachtsman & a member of the prominent U.S. Vanderbilt family. . In 1899, Vanderbilt married Virginia Graham Fair, a wealthy heiress whose father, James Graham Fair had made a fortune in mining the famous Comstock Lode. Already extremely wealthy from a trust fund, on his father's death in 1920, Willie K Vanderbilt inherited a multi-million dollar fortune.