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The Shocking Story Of John Jacob Astor IV, The Multimillionaire Who Went Down With The TitanicMonths before his death, 47-year-old real estate developer John Jacob Astor IV scandalized New York high society by marrying ...
Johann Jacob Astor worked as a butcher in Walldorf, southeastern Germany, Elizabeth Louisa Gebhard wrote in "The Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor." His ancestors are said to have ...
For actor Eric Braeden, best known as Victor Newman on the television soap opera The Young and the Restless, his past ...
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The wealth of the Astor family originated in fur trading, guided by the intelligent but ruthless business tactics of their ...
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 ...
An American buyer won the bidding war for John Jacob Astor IV's 14-carat gold Waltham pocket watch, shattering the auctioneer ...
A gold pocket watch which was recovered from the body of the Titanic’s richest passenger has sold for a record-breaking sum at auction. John Jacob Astor died when the Titanic sank in 1912, after ...
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Gold pocket watch recovered from Titanic’s wealthiest passenger sells for nearly $1.5MThe timepiece belonged to John Jacob Astor IV, a New York business magnate and real estate developer, and was expected to sell for about $189,000 at auction, according to auction house Henry ...
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 ...
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