The Titanic carried some of the wealthiest people in the world at the time, many of whom didn't survive following the crash ...

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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 Astor family dates back to the early 1700s when the original John Jacob Astor (pictured) came to the Americas from a small village in Germany to make a name for himself. According to Biography, he ...

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 ...

Mrs Astor was onboard the doomed ship with her husband, John Jacob Astor, of the famed New York Astor family. Mr Astor was 47 when he went down with the ship in 1912, after seeing his new wife ...

John Jacob Astor built his fortune in the fur business and New York real estate. John Jacob Astor III and William Backhouse Astor Jr. cofounded the Waldorf-Astoria after a feud. Modern Astor ...

John Jacob Astor, 3rd Baron Astor of Hever, also sat in the House of Lords from 1986 until his retirement in 2022, according to the UK Parliament 's official website.

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 ...

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, ...