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42. Astor, John Jacob, 1864–1912, American Financier encyclopediaEncyclopedia astor, john jacob. astor, john jacob, 1864–1912, Americanfinancier, b. Rhinebeck, NY; son of William Backhouse astor (1829–92). http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/id/CE003411

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Daily Tours Victorian Ghost Stories Murder Mystery Tours Beechwood Speakeasy ... About Us Caroline Schermerhorn married William Backhouse Astor in 1853. She brought long lines of established social background to the Astor fortune and became the undisputed queen of American society. Caroline Astor insisted upon being called "The Mrs. Astor" by family and friends. With the help of a southern gentleman, Mr. Ward McAllister, she devised the famous "400," a list of 213 families and individuals whose lineage could be traced back at least three generations. Beechwood was built in 1851 for a New York City merchant named Daniel Parrish; the architects were Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux. William Backhouse Astor, Jr., purchased the mansion in 1881, and it became the social center for New York Society for twenty-five years of the Gilded Age. William B., as his wife called him, was the grandson of John Jacob Astor , the German immigrant who made himself the richest man in America by investing in fur trading and real estate. As recent as 1999, he was listed as the fourth-wealthiest American ever (Microsoft's Bill Gates is fifth). The Astors hired architect Richard Morris Hunt to create an atmosphere at Beechwood that would be worthy of America's finest citizens. The family invested two million dollars in the renovations. Caroline Astor presided over countless social activities during the eight weeks each year she visited Beechwood. The highlight of every summer season was Mrs. Astor's Summer Ball. Mrs. Astor retired from social life in 1906. She lived quietly until her death in 1908.

47. John Jacob Astor IV, RMS Titanic - Astors' Beechwood Mansion, Newport RI astor, john jacob —17631848 john jacob astor was born in Waldorf, Germany in 1763and emigrated to the New World at the close of the Revolutionary War, when http://www.astorsbeechwood.com/jjastor.shtml

Daily Tours Victorian Ghost Stories Murder Mystery Tours Beechwood Speakeasy ... About Us Astor, John Jacob —1763-1848 John Jacob Astor was born in Waldorf, Germany in 1763 and emigrated to the New World at the close of the Revolutionary War, when he was 21. He arrived in Baltimore, penniless, but was shrewd and ambitious. He opened a small fur shop in 1786 in New York City and soon became a leader of the China trade. In 1790, John Jacob Astor married Sarah Todd, whose mother was a Brevoort. Sarah Todd met Astor when she came to buy furs to make herself a coat. Her ability to judge furs and make them up won the heart of the dealer. The marriage brought young Astor into "the best Dutch New York society." This marriage was a business partnership as well as marital and proved a success in every way. His AMERICAN FUR COMPANY (1808) created the first American monopoly on the fur trade in U.S. territories. The Lewis and Clark Expeditions had opened his eyes to new opportunities in the Northwest Territories. He sent out two expeditions of his own to establish a fur trading post at Fort Astor, which eventually became the city of Astoria, Oregon. " You should buy Manhatten, they aren't making anymore of it."

48. ASTOR, John Jacob IV [1864-1912] -- American Capitalist, Inventor And Real Estat astor, john jacob IV 18641912 American capitalist, inventor and realestate magnate; Titanic victim. Uncle astor, john jacob III qv. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~dav4is/people/ASTR12.htm

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Colonel John Jacob Astor IV - The richest passenger aboard the Titanic - * List of the stories he appears in : D 93288 The Empire-Builder from Calisota " (Lo$#11), from 1994, by Don Rosa. * His biography : 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 German immigrant who made himself the richest man in America by investing in fur trading and real estate. Astor was educated at St. Paul's School, Concord and later went to Harvard. Then, he returned to the United States to manage the family fortune. He had two homes in New York. On 1 May 1891 Astor was married to Ava , daughter of Edward Shippen Willing of Philadelphia. Together they had a son and one daughter. In 1894 Astor wrote a semi-scientific novel about life on other planets, A Journey in Other Worlds . He also developed several mechanical devices, 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 Nourmahal at the disposal of the U.S. government and equipped a mountain battery of artillery for use against the Spanish.

50. John Jacob Astor Bibliography A bibliography of john jacob astor s books and short stories, with book covers andlinks to related authors. john jacob astor USA (1864 1912). Search Authors. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/John_Jacob_Astor.htm

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Main Page See live article Alphabetical index John Jacob Astor IV John Jacob Astor IV July 13 April 15 ) was a businessman, inventor, and writer. A great-grandson of the fur trader John Jacob Astor , he was born in Rhinebeck, New York to William Backhouse Astor Jr and his wife, Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor In 1897 he built the Astoria Hotel, which became part of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. As a writer, his works include A Journey in Other Worlds , a utopian fantasy set in the year 2000. In 1891, he 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 and his Harvard buddies as "Jackass", 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 Ava Alice Astor, always known as Alice. There was always speculation that Alice was not Jack's child due to her birth being 11 years after Vincent's and Ava's flirtations with other men during her marriage. A look at a photograph of Alice in later years shows a strong resemblence to Jack. A divorce was imminent and finally obtained in 1909 following the death of Jack's mother, Caroline. The dicorce forbade Jack of marrying in the state of New York during Ava's lifetime. Jack decided, nonetheless, to marry a young girl who was the slightly younger in age to his own son. Madeline Talmadge Force, age 18, married John Jacob, age 44, in his mother's ballroom at the Beechwood Estate in Newport, Rhode Island with his son as his best man. Society was not kind to the new Mrs. Astor and even Vincent, himself, was somewhat against the marriage. The solution was for the couple to disappear. So they went on an extended honeymoon in Egypt. Soon the girl-bride was pregnant and she and her husband wished to return to the United States for the birth of the child.

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Encyclopedia Astor, John Jacob Astor, John Jacob, , American financier, b. Rhinebeck, N. Y.; son of William Backhouse Astor Titanic disaster, he left two sons, Vincent, the son of his first marriage, and John Jacob Astor, fifth of the name in America, the son of his second marriage. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Astor, Nancy Witcher (Langhorne) Astor, Viscountess Print this page Cite this page AD AD AD ADS Link to Fact Monster Add Fact Monster search to your site ... Privacy Brought to you by:

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57. John Jacob Astor IV john jacob astor (July 13, 1864 April 15, 1912). Great grandsonof john jacob astor, who founded the family fortune. john jacob http://www.foodreference.com/html/wjohnjacobastoriv.html

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58. John Jacob Astor And The Fur Trade: Testing The Role Of Government john jacob astor and the Fur Trade Testing the Role of Government. BurtonW. Folsom, Jr. john jacob astor RiskTaker and World Trader. http://www.libertyhaven.com/theoreticalorphilosophicalissues/protectionismpopuli

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John Jacob Astor by Elbert Hubbard Hypertext Meanings and Commentaries from the Encyclopedia of the Self by Mark Zimmerman LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF GREAT BUSINESS MEN BY ELBERT HUBBARD JOHN J. ASTOR The man who makes it the habit of his life to go to bed at nine o'clock, usually gets rich and is always reliable. Of course, going to bed does not make him richI merely mean that such a man will in all probability be up early in the morning and do a big day's work, so his weary bones put him to bed early. Rogues do their work at night. Honest men work by day. It's all a matter of habit, and good habits in America make any man rich. Wealth is a result of habit. JOHN JACOB ASTOR LITTLE JOURNEYS Victor Hugo says, ``When you open a school, you close a prison.'' This seems to require a little explanation. Victor Hugo did not have in mind a theological school, nor yet a young ladies' seminary, nor an English boarding-school, nor a military academy, and least of all a parochial institute. What he was thinking of was a school where peopleyoung and old were taught to be self-respecting

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var cm_role = "live" var cm_host = "angelfire.lycos.com" var cm_taxid = "/memberembedded" Descendants of John Jacob Astor and Sarah Todd With special thanks to Ronald Elward Last update on February 8th, 2004 John (Johann) Jacob Astor (1763-1848) [born in Waldorf near Heidelberg, Germany, emigrated to the USA in 1783, owner American Fur Company, built Astor House in New York], m.Sarah Todd 1.Magdalen Astor (1788-1832), m.1st 1807 Adrian Bentzon, m.2nd 1820 John Bristed (1778-1855) 1.1.John Jacob Astor Bentzon (1818- ) 1.2.Charles Astor Bristed (1820-1874), m.1st 1847 Laura Brevoort (1861), m.2nd Grace Ashburner Sedgwick (1833-1897) 1.2.1.John Jacob Astor Bristed (1848-1880) 1.2.2.Charles Henry Maine Bristed (1868-1936), m.1st 1894 Mary Rosa Donnelly (1866-1931), m.2nd 1932 Clementina Hill 1.2.2.1.Mary Symphorosa Bristed (1896- ), m.1941 George Kirchwey Livermore (1891- ) 1.2.2.2.Katherine Elizabeth Grace Bristed (1898- ), m. Charles Douglas Jackson 2.Sarah Astor (1790-1790) 3.John Jacob Astor II (1791-1869) 4.William Backhouse Astor (1792-1875) [president American Fur Company], m.1818 Margaret Rebecca Armstrong (1800-1872)

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