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| | The Astor Bloodline |
 | | Again John Jacob Astor III’s power allowed his involvement to be basically overlooked by the press, while Tweed went to prison for life. | | | The Astor's were also involved in the Temperance movement against alcoholic drink which was begun by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. | | | The Astor's also were behind the appeasement policy in Europe which allowed Hitler to become a threat. |
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| | 1890 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | January 23 - John Bunny and Clara Scallan | | | November 23 - King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to become Queen. | | | February 22 - John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (b. |
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| | Descendants of John Jacob Astor and Sarah Todd |
| | 4.2.1.5.2.1.Virginia Lucy Astor (*1951), m.1984 Richard Denis Wyer McGillycuddy, The McGillycuddy of The Reeks | | | John (Johann) Jacob Astor (1763-1848) [born in Waldorf near Heidelberg, Germany, emigrated to the USA in 1783, owner American Fur Company, built Astor House in New York], m.Sarah Todd | | | Descendants of John Jacob Astor and Sarah Todd |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla : Biography of a Genius |
| | Seifer's vivid, revelatory, exhaustively researched biography rescues pioneer inventor Nikola Tesla from cult status and restores him to his rightful place as a principal architect of the modern age. | | | This has to be one of the most amazing books I have ever read. | | | Though often depicted as a recluse, flamboyant nouveau-riche Tesla (1856-1943) lived in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for two decades, and hobnobbed with architect Sanford White, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, conservationist John Muir, mogul John Jacob Astor III, Swami Vivekananda. |
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| | 455 Central Park West - Wired New York Forum |
| | A Columbia spokesperson would not comment on any ongoing negotiations, while MCL's flack also declined comment. | | | Another, Charlotte Augusta Astor (she and her husband, John Jacob Astor III, donated most of the money) died of cancer a week after the hospital opened in December 1887, missing her chance to be cured. | | | The Towers was originally put up in 1884 by John Jacob Astor III as the New York Cancer Hospital (a precursor of Sloan-Kettering). |
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| | John Jacob Astor III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | and the wealthiest member of the Astor family in his generation, which meant one of the wealthiest men in the United States. | | | Aristocratic by inclination, he increasingly visited London in his later years, and his only child, son William Waldorf Astor (1848-1919), would move there permanently with his family in 1891. | | | Charlotte Astor supported the newly formed Children's Aid Society and sat on the board of the Women's Hospital of New York, an institution that to her dismay refused to accept cancer patients. |
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| | Class and Leisure at America's First Resort: Newport, Rhode Island, 1870-1914 |
| | Astor." She presided over New York and Newport society. | | | Like many upper-class men of the Gilded Age, Astor did not participate in the rigorous social rituals adopted by his wife and other society women. | | | Astor and his younger brother, John Jacob Astor III, were heirs to the family fortune. |
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| | William Waldorf Astor - definition of William Waldorf Astor in Encyclopedia |
| | As a citizen in England, William Waldorf Astor used his great wealth for numerous public causes, especially during World War I for which King George V rewarded him with a baronetcy in 1916 and a year later made him 1st Viscount Astor. | | | In 1905 he gave his son William Waldorf Astor II and his new daughter-in-law, the former Nancy Langhorne, the Cliveden estate as a wedding present. | | | He was defeated in his bid for a seat in the United States Congress and in 1881 was appointed ambassador to Italy serving there until 1885. |
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| | John Jacob Astor VI |
| | Astor had conceived during their honeymoon abroad, no provision for the unborn child was made in his already set will. | | | Astor VI married a third time to Dolores Fullman in 1954 who predeceased him. | | | Madeleine Astor was five months pregnant when her husband put her in one of Titanic's lifeboats and she was rescued eight hours after her husband went down with the ship. |
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| | Books: Fifth Avenue - The Best Address by Jerry E. Patterson |
| | Their reasoning was that straight-sided and right-angled houses were the cheapest to build and the most convenient to live in, and also the easiest to locate and to describe in legal documents," Patterson continued. | | | One of the more outraged citizens was Brevoort, who, Patterson noted, was related to the Astors, already one of the city's richest families. | | | Their faculty of young men teachers included at various times Elihu Root, later U. secretary of state and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize; John Bigelow, later minister to France; and John Fiske, who became America's chief exponent of Darwin's new theory of evolution. |
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| | Ephraim and John Edmonson, the other two brothers who had been on the Pearl, remained in New Orleans where Hamilton worked for their release. | | | The family decided that Richard Edmonson was most needed, and he became the first to be freed. | | | Paul and Amelia Edmonson continued their crusade to raise money to buy the children. |
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| | Bruce Campbell Adamson - Genealogist and Historian |
| | GEORGE W. ELY, III is also the grandson of RAY LYMAN WILBUR who was President of Standford University, R.L. Wilbur was also Secretary of the Interior under President Hoover for four years, for many years and Lyman's brother was CURTIS WILBUR, Secretary of the Navy under President COOLIDGE. | | | This book was edited by my cousins GEORGE W. ELY, III, and William Dodds Hawkins and was accepted into the New York Stock Exchange's archives, New York Public Library, New York Historical Society and many libraries of the U.S. Department of Army. | | | This battery fought in the Spanish-American War in 1898. |
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| | These two broader family fortunes would have been in the $300 to $400 million range. | | | *By this timw Astor and Vanderbilt fortunes were increasingly diffused. |
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| | FIFTH AVENUE: The Elite Street, Page 3: THE ASTORS |
| | FIFTH AVENUE: The Elite Street, Page 3: THE ASTORS | | | I apologize for any inconvenience the closing of these pages may cause. | | | Page Three of "FIFTH AVENUE: The Elite Street" (The Astors) |
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| | Trinity Church and Graveyard |
| | Bronze doors designed by Richard Morris Hunt (donated in memory of John Jacob Astor III) were executed by Charles Niehaus, Karl Bitter, and J. Massey Rhind (left entrance, main entrance, and right entrance, respectively) from 1890 to 1896." | | | Cemetery monuments of particular note include the pyramid of Alexander Hamilton, Robert Fulton's bronze bas-relief, and that of William Bradford. | | | William Backhouse Astor Memorial Altar and Reredos, 1876-1877. |
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| | A Journey In Other Worlds : A Romance Of The Future by John Jacob Astor eBook by BookRags |
| | Further, we can recall that the water in the hot spring near which we alighted, which evidently came from a far greater depth than we have here, was not as hot as this. | | | A Journey In Other Worlds : A Romance Of The Future by John Jacob Astor eBook by BookRags | | | A Journey In Other Worlds : A Romance Of The Future by John Jacob Astor |
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| | 1822 |
| | June 10 - John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (d. | | | January 15 - John Aikin, English physician and writer (b. | | | May 26 - Edmond de Goncourt, French writer (d. |
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