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Sep 29, 2020 · Captain William Vincent Astor was born in November 15, 1891, in New York, NY , the son of the late John Jacob and Ava Willing Astor. He attended St. George’s School and Harvard University. Captain Astor enlisted in the US Navy on May 1, 1916, as seaman in the Second Battalion, Naval Militia of New York. Eleven days later he was commissioned ...
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William Vincent Astor, (Born November 15th, 1891 – Died February 3rd, 1959) was a businessman and philanthropist and a member of the prominent Astor family.
Called Vincent, he was born in the Fifth Avenue mansion, where his paternal grandmother, Caroline Webster Schermerhorn, reigned over American society. He was the son of John Jacob Astor IV, millionaire and inventor; and his first wife, Ava Lowle Willing, an heiress from Philadelphia. He graduated from St. George's School, in Middletown, Rhode Islan...
Vincent endured a difficult childhood. His vain mother was embarrassed by his resemblance to his father and would belittle and humiliate him in public. In addition his parents had a difficult marriage. They divorced in 1909 and on September 9, 1911, John Jacob "Jack" Astor IV married Madeleine Talmage Force, an 18-year-old beauty one year younger t...
Vincent Astor was, according to Astor family biographer Derek Wilson, "a hitherto unknown phenomenon in America: an Astor with a highly developed social conscience." He was 20 when his father died and having inherited a massive fortune, Vincent Astor dropped out of Harvard University. He set about to change the family image from that of miserly, al...
Helen Dinsmore HuntingtonAstor married Helen Dinsmore Huntington, on April 30, 1914. At the ceremony, he was stricken with the mumps, a disease that made him sterile; as for the bride, her friend Glenway Wescott, the novelist, admiringly described her in his unpublished diaries as "a grand, old-fashioned lesbian." The couple divorced in 1940. A yea...
World War IAstor joined the Naval Reserve shortly after it was founded and was commissioned as an ensign on December 28, 1915. At the outbreak of World War I, Vincent took advice from his friend and future-president Franklin Delano Roosevelt and volunteered for active duty with the Navy on April 7, 1917. He went overseas on June 9 on the USS Noma (...
Vincent died on February 3, 1959, of a heart attack at his apartment at 120 East End Avenue in Manhattan. Astor left all of his money to the Vincent Astor foundation and Brooke, surprising many. She continued his philanthropic work. Vincent Astor was first interred on his "Ferncliff Courts" estate ("Astor Courts") on the Hudson River near Rhinebeck...
A mountain in Antarctica bears Astor's name. Rising to a height of 3,710 m, Mount Astor is located in the Hays Mountains of the Queen Maud Range, and was named by Rear Admiral Richard Byrd on his November 1929 expedition flight to the South Pole. Astor had been a contributing philanthropist to the expedition.
Wikipedia contributors, "Vincent Astor," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vincent_Astor&oldid=627729111(accessed October 13, 2014).
- November 15, 1891
- February 3, 1959
John Jacob Astor (born Johann Jakob Astor) was the youngest of four sons born to Johann Jacob Astor (1724–1816) and Maria Magdalena vom Berg (1730–1764). The Astor family can trace their ancestry back to Giovan Asdour (1595–1668) and Gretta Ursula Asdour (1589–?). Giovan was born in Chiavenna, Italy, and died in Zürich, Switzerland.
Mar 14, 2024 · Published March 14, 2024 at 10:18am ET. William Vincent Astor's life was one of unenviable isolation and singularly strange circumstances. Literally in the manor born, he arrived into the world in ...
Jan 19, 2023 · Vincent Astor was a puckish, irrepressible avatar of Memphis at its most distinctive and independent — an icon who made history as he preserved it. Vincent Astor was a puckish, irrepressible ...
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Vincent Astor (1891–1959), son of the John Jacob Astor who built the well-known hotels, departed markedly from Astor family conservatism. He sold some Astor-owned properties to New York City under generous terms so that they might be converted into housing projects. In addition, he backed…. Other articles where Vincent Astor is discussed ...
Sep 4, 2008 · September 4, 2008. In January, The New York Times printed a piece about a 94-year-old woman named Minnie Motz, whose son, an Upper East Side doctor, had been accused of ripping his mother off to ...
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