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The post-Civil War period witnessed an era in which vast fortunes were made in oil, meat-packing and steel. Millions of dollars were accumulated by such industrial giants as Andrew Carnegie, J. Swift Armour and John D. Rockefeller. Whether they were robber barons or lords of creation is a debatable point but no one disputes that their wealth gave them enormous power. In the pre-Civil War period, however, when millionaires were rare in this country, one name stands out. John Jacob Astor had no equal in the ability to amass wealth. How someone of such modest origins, without inheritance, was able to accomplish such a feat, stands out as one of the most remarkable stories in this country's economic history. There were three main circumstances that contributed to Astor's remarkable success. He was an industrious individual with tremendous drive, he was skilled in fur trading and he was able to avail himself of a vast wilderness with scant government supervision. Using devious and illegal means in his dealings with the Indians, Astor was able to monopolize the fur trade in the western United States during the early days of our nation. Then, shrewdly recognizing the potential of trade with China, he began to trade his furs with them, returning with extremely valuable cargoes. Astor's genius was in continually being the first: finding emerging markets where competition had not yet developed. By the time he sold the American Fur Company in 1834, he had already accumulated several million dollars. For many, it could well have been the ending of a successful career, but for John Astor, it was only the beginning. Astor's first stage of fortune-building involved producing goods and trading them. In his second stage he sought to profit from the productivity of others. His activities centered mainly around New York City, and the venture was real estate. Toward the close of his life, Astor commented, "Could I begin life again, knowing what I now know and had money to invest, I would buy every foot of land on the island of Manhattan."

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AllRefer Channels :: Health Yellow Pages Reference Weather SEARCH : in Reference May 27, 2004 You are here : AllRefer.com Reference Encyclopedia Business Leaders By Alphabet : Encyclopedia A-Z A Related Category: Business Leaders John Jacob Astor u r] Pronunciation Key American Fur Company (1808) and founded subsidiary companies : the Pacific Fur Company (see Astoria , Oreg.) and the South West Company (operating around the Great Lakes). His firm exercised a virtual monopoly of the trade in U.S. territories in the 1820s and still did when he retired from it in 1834. The wealthiest man in the United States at his death, he left a fortune that has continued to make the family name prominent. Part of his money went to found the Astor Library (see New York Public Library ). His Astor House was a forerunner of family hotel properties that much later included the Astor Hotel and the Waldorf-Astoria. See biographies by J. U. Terrell (1963) and K. W. Porter (1936, repr. 1966). Topics that might be of interest to you: American Fur Company Astoria William Backhouse Astor, 1792¢#150;1875, American financier Hoboken, city, United States ... com Check out around 175,000 brief encyclopedia articles on almost all topics. Related Categories: People Social Sciences and the Law Social Sciences and the Law Economics, Business, and Labor

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88. Astor, John Jacob, JOURNEY IN OTHER WORLDS Buddenbrooks, Inc. A Journey to Other Worlds The Scarce First Edition. astor, JohnJacob JOURNEY IN OTHER WORLDS New York D. Appleton Co. 1894. First edition. http://www.polybiblio.com/bud/13186.html

Buddenbrooks, Inc. A Journey to Other Worlds The Scarce First Edition Astor, John Jacob JOURNEY IN OTHER WORLDS First edition. 9 full page illustrations by Dan Beard and a diagram. 8vo, original dark blue cloth decorated with an all-over design in silver on the upper cover and spine, designs in silver on the lower cover, lettered in gilt. iv, 476. A fine copy with only the very lightest aging, very bright, unusually so. The only novel by Astor. His fascination with science led him to write this novel, as well as inventing a bicycle brake and an improved turbine engine. Astor is probably also known as being the builder of the Astor section of the Waldorf-Astoria and for his tragic death aboard the Titanic. This item is listed on Bibliopoly by Buddenbrooks, Inc. ; click here for further details.

89. John Jacob Astor --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Online Article Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, astor, john jacob Britannica Concise. born July17, 1763, Waldorf, Ger. died March 29, 1848, New York, NY, US john jacob astor. http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article?eu=381314

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Encyclopedia Dictionary Thesaurus The Web eBooks loadkeyword("John Jacob Astor"); John Jacob Astor John Jacob Astor July 17 March 29 ) made a fortune in fur trading and real estate . He is the founder of what became known as the Astor family Born in Walldorf Baden Germany (currently in the Rhein-Neckar district), he learned English in London, England while working for his brother George whose business was manufacturing musical instruments. Astor arrived in the United States in just after the end of the Revolutionary War . He started a fur goods shop in New York City in the late Astor took advantage of a treaty called Jay's Treaty between Britain and the United States in which opened new markets in Canada and the Great Lakes region at the expense of the Canadians. By he had amassed nearly a quarter of a million dollars, and had become one of the leading figures in the fur trade. Astor was given permission to trade in ports monopolized by the British East India Company , and greatly benefited from the fur trade with China . He established the American Fur Company on April 6 , and later formed subsidiaries, the Pacific Fur Company and the Southwest Fur Company (in which Canadians had a part) to control fur trading in the Columbia River and Great Lakes area respectively. His fur trading ventures were disrupted when the British captured his trading posts during the

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