21. Reader's Companion To American History - -ASTOR, JOHN JACOB astor, john jacob. Kenneth W. Porter, john jacob astor, Business Man (1931); DavidSinclair, Dynasty The astors and Their Times (1984). john Steele Gordon. http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_005900_astorjohnjac.htm

Entries Publication Data Advisory Board Contributors ... World Civilizations The Reader's Companion to American History ASTOR, JOHN JACOB , fur trader, businessman, and real estate investor. Astor began life as one of twelve children of a poor German butcher and died the richest man in America. The making of a great fortune was the aim and purpose of Astor's life, and he accomplished it by dominating the American fur trade and investing his profits in the real estate of burgeoning New York City. Shortly before his death, Astor was asked if he would have done anything differently with his life. He is supposed to have replied that his only regret was not having bought all of Manhattan. Astor was born in the small town of Waldorf, near Heidelberg, Germany. At twenty he followed his older brother Henry to New York, arriving with hardly a penny. He became a clerk to a fur trader and mastered that business quickly. His employer was impressed with Astor's intelligence and energy and entrusted him with more and more responsibilities, including buying furs upstate and selling them in London. Before long Astor was operating on his own account and prospered at once. He began putting his profits into Manhattan real estate, investing nearly $7,000, a large sum of money in those days, between 1789 and 1791. Astor's strategy was to buy, very cheaply, land that lay far beyond the developed area of the city and then to wait for the city's rapid growth to reach his lots. In 1803, for instance, he paid $25,000 for seventy acres located more than an hour's ride north of what were then the city's physical limits. By the 1870s the land was worth $20 million to the Astor family. Today the area is known as Times Square.

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John Jacob Astor, American Fur Company, Pacific Fur Companies, Southwest Fur Company John Jacob Astor Born: July 17, 1763 in Germany Died: 1848 in New York John Jacob Astor was a major Fur trader and merchant John Jacob Astor established the American Fur Company in 1808 and later the Pacific Fur Companies and Southwest Fur Company with trading posts across the country John Jacob Astor established Astoria, Oregon in 1811 in hopes of developing the Far East market but the War of 1812 blockaded the post and he eventually sold it to the British John Jacob Astor monopolized the fur trade until 1834 when he retired from the fur business. Investments in real estate in New York made him the richest man in the United States and its' first millionaire on record American Fur Company Pacific Fur Companies Southwest Fur Company Back to American Western History Museums ... Gold and Silver Exchange we trade our goods and services for your gold and silver coin at very good prices unless noted otherwise. Bulletin board Service For Sale or Trade Surplus Goods and Equipment Back to the camp-fire American Western Trading Post Legal, ©1999 American Western History Museum, Policy page

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TITANIC John Jacob and Madeleine Astor With a net worth well over 87 million dollars, John Astor the fourth was without a doubt the richest man aboard the Titanic. Backed by a powerful family fortune made from fur trading, Astor had made millions of his own investing in real estate. He also held patents on a number of items of his own invention, including an improved bicycle brake, and a turbine engine. Astor led a fairly remarkable life. During the Spanish American war, Astor financed his own battalion. Before the war, he wrote a science fiction novel about life on other planets. He also invented a "vibratory disintegrator", which supposedly produced some sort of gas from peat moss. (peat moss produces trace gasses on its own, but they didn't know that in 1912) He boarded the ship with his wife, ( 19 and pregnant at the time, and her age was quite a point of conversation with other first class passengers) , a maid, a manservant, a personal nurse, and a dog, and his staterooms were without equal. With working fireplaces, and adjoining quarters for servants, the suites cost $4,000.00, an amount that equals $50,000.00 in today's dollars.

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Entries Publication Data Dedication Advisory Board ... World Civilizations The Great American History Fact-Finder Astor, John Jacob , German-born merchant, fur trader, and financier. Astor organized a lucrative fur trade with China and formed the American Fur Company to capitalize on the newly acquired lands of the Louisiana Purchase. In 1811 he built a trading post at the mouth of the Columbia River, naming it Astoria, a claim later used by the U.S. government to establish control over the Oregon Territory . Astor invested his fur-trading profits in Manhattan real estate, becoming the wealthiest man in the country. When he died, he left an estate variously estimated at between $20 million and $40 million. Site Map I Partners I Press Releases I Company Home I Contact Us Terms and Conditions of Use Privacy Statement , and Trademark Information

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Colonel John Jacob Astor IV Photo: Daily Mirror , April 16, 1912, p.8 Colonel John Jacob Astor IV was born in Rhinebeck, New York on July 13th, 1864 the son of William Astor and great-grandson of John Jacob Astor the fur trader. Astor was educated at St. Paul's School, Concord and later went to Harvard. After a period of travelling abroad (1888-91) he returned to the United States to manage the family fortune. He had homes at 840 Fifth Avenue, New York and at Ferncliff , Rhinebeck, New York. In 1894 Astor wrote a semi-scientific novel A Journey in Other Worlds . During his life he also developed several mechanical devices including a bicycle brake (1898), helped to develop the turbine engine, and invented a pneumatic road-improver. In 1897 Astor built the Astoria Hotel, New York adjoining the Waldorf Hotel which had been built by William Waldorf Astor, his cousin. The new complex became known as the Waldorf-Astoria. Astor's real-estate interest included two other hotels, the Hotel St. Regis (1905) and the Knickerbocker (1906). He became Colonel-staff to General Levi P. Morton and in 1898, at the time of the Spanish-American War, was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the US volunteers. He placed his yacht

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Mrs John Jacob Astor Photo: Daily Mirror , April 16, 1912, p.8 Mrs John Jacob Astor (Madeleine Force), 18, was the wife of millionaire John Jacob Astor , they had been on an extended honeymoon in Egypt and Paris and, in the spring of 1912, decided to return to America as First Class passengers on board the brand new Titanic They boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg with Colonel Astor's manservant Mr Victor Robbins , Mrs Astor's maid Miss Rosalie Bidois and their pet Airedale Kitty. Also accompanying the Astors was Mrs Astor's private nurse Miss Caroline Louise Endres After the accident Colonel Astor left his suite to investigate, he quickly returned and reported to Madeleine that the ship had struck ice. He reassured her that the damage did not appear serious. Later as they waited on the boat deck , Mrs Astor lent Leah Aks her shawl to keep her son Filly warm. At one point the Astors retired to the gymnasium and sat on the mechanical horses. They wore their lifebelts but Colonel Astor had found another and cut the lining with a pen knife to show his wife what it was made of. Colonel and Mrs Astor later moved down to A-Deck from where Mrs Astor boarded lifeboat 4 aided by her husband and Second Officer Charles Lightoller Madeleine inherited from her husband the income from a five-million-dollar trust fund and the use of his home on Fifth Avenue and in the Newport so long as she did not marry. In August 1912, she gave birth to a son with whom she was pregnant on the

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A Classification of American Wealth History and genealogy of the wealthy families of America Part 1 : Colonial and Mercantile America Part 2 : America in the Gilded Age Part 3 : America in the Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of American Wealth Info Site map Links ... american.wealth@raken.com Part I-Chapter 4 : New YorkCity Landlords John Jacob Astor « Previous Next » John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) : the richest man in America John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) emigrated from his hometown Waldorf in Germany, when he was 18 years old and first joined his older brother George Peter Astor, who was dealing in musical instruments in London. Two years later John Jacob Astor set on to America, where he first reached Baltimore and then settled in New York, his ultimate goal. At this time his sole capital was 50 $ and seven flutes, he had brought from England to sell in the New World Astor never forgot to concentrate on his core business, the fur trade. In 1808, he founded the American Fur Company, a business enterprise that was set with an initial capital of 500'000 $, then a sizeable fortune. Astor's plan was the concentration of American fur trade under the umbrella of this company to counter the influence of the British-Canadian Hudson Bay Company, a well structured organization which dominated trade in Canada and the North-West of America New Registration Dear visitor

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Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Page history ... Printable version Not logged in Log in Help John Jacob Astor IV From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Jacob Astor IV July 13 April 15 ) was a businessman, inventor, and writer and a member of the prominent Astor family A great-grandson of the fur trader John Jacob Astor , he was born at "Ferncliff," the family's estate in Rhinebeck, New York to William Backhouse Astor, Jr. and his wife, Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor After graduating from Harvard University , John Jacob Astor IV patented several inventions, including a turbine engine, a bicycle brake and a "vibratory disintegrator" used to produce gas from peat moss. He also wrote a science-fiction novel in 1894 titled A Journey to Other Worlds , a fictional account of life in the year 2000 on the planets Saturn and Jupiter . As well, John Jacob Astor IV was a lieutenant colonel during the Spanish-American War In , John Jacob married Ava Lowle Willing, a Philadelphia socialite. Ava was beautiful and rather turned off by her husband, whom she married for the sake of a "good" social match. Ava bore John Jacob, known to his friends as Jack, two children. The first child was William Vincent Astor , known to everyone as Vincent. He would later become Jack's heir. The second child was named

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Astor, John Jacob (b. July 17, 1763, Waldorf, Ger.d. March 29, 1848, New York City), fur magnate and founder of a renowned family of Anglo-American capitalists, business leaders, and philanthropists. His American Fur Company is considered the first U.S. business monopoly. Astor started a fur-goods shop in New York City about 1786 after learning about the fur trade while aboard the ship that brought him to the U.S. Benefitting from a treaty between England and the U.S. (1794) that opened up new markets in Canada and the Great Lakes region, and from shrewd dealings with Indian tribes, he had by 1800 amassed $250,000 and become the leading figure in the fur trade. Given permission to trade in ports monopolized by the British East India Company, he made lucrative fur transactions in China (1800-17), but his plan to establish a network of fur-trading posts around Astoria (now in Oregon) failed when the British captured the post during the War of 1812. At the same time, however, Astor invested in New York City real estate that became the foundation of the family fortune. His son, William Backhouse Astor (1792-1875), greatly expanded the family real estate holdings, building more than 700 stores and dwellings in New York City. The wealthiest person in the U.S. at the time of his death, the senior Astor bequeathed $400,000 for the founding of a public library, the Astor Library, in New York City, which was consolidated with others as the New York Public Library in 1895.

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