Tall, lean and mustachioed John Jacob Astor IV wanted to accompany her in Lifeboat 4, but his social status and family fortune — born of the fur trade, then turbocharged by New York real-estate ...

Tall, lean and mustachioed John Jacob Astor IV wanted to accompany her in Lifeboat 4, but his social status and family fortune — born of the fur trade, then turbocharged by New York real-estate ...

The son of honeymooners Madeleine and John Jacob Astor IV, he was born four months later in New York. He may have had a chip on his shoulder since another Astor, born shortly before he was, got ...

John Jacob Astor IV was born on July 13, 1864, in New York into one of the most affluent families in the world. The first John Jacob Astor. Stock Montage/ Getty The Astor family dates back to the ...

Madeleine Astor was the queen of New York’s high society when she boarded the Titanic with her new husband, John Jacob Astor IV. Tragically, the iceberg that sank the Titanic also sank her marriage.

Tall, lean and mustachioed John Jacob Astor IV wanted to accompany her in Lifeboat 4, but his apogeal social status and family fortune — born of the fur trade, then turbocharged by New York real ...

John Jacob Astor's daughters John had attempted to marry off his three daughters, but while Eliza delighted her father by tying the knot with an influential German count, Dorothea enraged him by ...

John III's son, William Waldorf Astor, built the 13-story Waldorf Hotel in 1893 on 33rd Street and Fifth Avenue. Waldorf Astor's cousin and rival, John Jacob Astor IV, built a taller hotel next ...

Astor also bought and sold acres upon acres of land in and around New York City, including what is now Times Square. In 1785, he married Sarah Todd. They had three children: Magdalena, John Jacob II, ...

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. A painting of John Jacob Astor. Interim ...

John Jacob Astor IV (a title he was granted based on a ceremonial appointment to the military staff of New York Governor Levi P. Morton in 1894) was 46, had a net worth of around $87 million ...