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1. www.historytools.org › stories › the-gilded-life-andThe Gilded Life and Tragic End of John Jacob Astor IV ...

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   May 26, 2024 · May 26, 2024. John Jacob Astor IV was an American millionaire businessman and real estate developer who perished aboard the RMS Titanic in 1912. As the richest passenger on the ill-fated ship and head of one of America‘s most storied dynasties, Astor‘s life and death came to embody the opulence and tragedy of the Gilded Age.

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3. www.msn.com › en-us › lifestyleHow the Astor family became an American dynasty - MSN

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   2 days ago · Astor was the great-great granddaughter, by marriage, of John Jacob Astor. She donated over $195 million to hospitals, cultural institutions, and community service programs in New York City ...

4. untappedcities.com › 2013/10/03 › astor-familyThe Astor Family Connection to the Meatpacking District and ...

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   6 days ago · Map of lots of land from deed sold by John Jacob Astor to Gilbert Coutant at the corner of Bowery, Art Street, and Lafayette Place in 1828. (MS 25, Astor Family Papers.)

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   5 days ago · Caroline’s son, John Jacob Astor IV, lived life among his family’s many mansions.Astor served during the 1898 Spanish-American War, wrote science fiction stories, and was an inventor.

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   5 days ago · Born in 1864, John Jacob Astor, fourth of his name, was an ancestor of a fur trader of German origin who amassed a colossal fortune in the 19th century, as detailed in this blog article from the American Library of Congress. Three generations later, William Astor consolidated the family fortune with real estate acquisitions in New York City.

8. untappedcities.com › 2014/07/21 › a-look-at-astorA Look at Historic Astor Row, John Jacob Astor's Gift to ...

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   5 days ago · The historic Astor Row in Harlem dates back to land purchased by John Jacob Astor in 1844 for the sum of $10,000 on what is now 130th Street between Lenox Avenue and Fifth Avenue in Harlem.

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   Who was John Jacob Astor?

   • His son, John Jacob Astor, was born in Walldorf in 1763. As a youngster, he worked for his father as a dairy salesman. He had three brothers, the eldest of whom, George, left home to work for an uncle in London who made musical instruments. Astor met up with him there after his 16th birthday.

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   How much was John Jacob Astor worth?

   • The fortunes behind many prestigious names, none more so than Astor, originated in the part of New York that had made New York into a global metropolis, the South Street Seaport. John Jacob Astor IV was worth an estimated $90 million dollars in 1912 ($12.7 billion in 2015), and he only represented one of several branches of the Astor family.

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   How did John Jacob Astor make his money?

   • John Jacob Astor built his fortune in the fur business and through buying and selling New York real estate. After the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783, he immigrated to New York and took a job with a fur trader. By 1800, he'd built up his own fur business and was worth $250,000, or about $6.2 million in 2024, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.

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   How many brothers did John Jacob Astor have?

   • He had three brothers, the eldest of whom, George, left home to work for an uncle in London who made musical instruments. Astor met up with him there after his 16th birthday. John Jacob Astor built his fortune in the fur business and through buying and selling New York real estate.

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10. www.britannica.com › biography › John-Jacob-AstorJohn Jacob Astor | British Newspaper, Fleet Street ...

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    May 16, 2024 · John Jacob Astor (born May 20, 1886, New York, New York, U.S.—died July 19, 1971, Cannes, France) was a British journalist and great-great-grandson of the U.S. fur magnate John Jacob Astor; as chief proprietor of The Times of London (1922–66), he maintained the newspaper’s leading position in British journalism.