Edith Stuyvesant Dresser Vanderbilt (January 17, 1873 – December 21, 1958) and later Edith Gerry, was a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, the first governor of Dutch colonial New York, and also the great-niece of Hamilton Fish.
She was born on January 17, 1873 as Edith Stuyvesant Dresser. She was orphaned at age ten and was raised by her maternal grandmother. Her first husband was George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914), the owner of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. They were married on 1 June 1898 in Paris. After his death in 1914, Edith sold the land around the Biltmore Estate to the United States Forest Service. This became part of the Pisgah National Forest. Edith and George had one daughter, Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (1900–1976).
Edith's second husband, whom she married on October 22, 1925 in London, was Peter G. Gerry, United States Senator from Rhode Island.
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