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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. | | | Even at that period in history, British intelligence worked for the Committee of 300 and for the Thirteen Top Families, it is interesting then, that John Coleman who had access as an intelligence agent to secret documents, discovered that the original John Jacob Astor was also a British secret agent. |
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http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/the_astor_bloodline.htm
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| | S q u e a k y p o n y l a n d - December 29, 2000 |
| | Elizabeth Schermerhorn Jones was the aunt of Edith Newbold Jones, a 19th century writer, and was also somehow related to the Astor family via Caroline Webster Schermerhorn, who married William Backhouse Astor. | | | While there's tons of information on the Astor family, the only information I've been able to find on "Mrs. | | | Now, everything I've read about Wyndcliffe says Elizabeth Schermerhorn Jones never married, so the reference to Mrs. |
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| | Colonel John Jacob Astor |
| | After the accident Astor left his suite to investigate, he quickly returned and reported to his wife that the ship had struck ice. | | | ASTOR'S RESIDENCE, NEWPORT, R. There are 7 more images in the image archive] | | | COL. ASTOR READY TO SERVE New York Times |
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| | John Jacob Astor IV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Among the items found on him were £225, $2440, and a gold watch which his son, Vincent, claimed and wore the rest of his life. | | | Astor was the richest person on the ship and along with his wife his party included his manservant, his wife's maid and nurse and his pet Airedale, Kitty. | | | At first Astor didn’t believe the ship was in any serious danger, but later helped his wife into a lifeboat. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacob_Astor_IV
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| | John Jacob Astor IV - definition of John Jacob Astor IV in Encyclopedia |
| | Astor escaped the sinking ship on a lifeboat, but her husband remained behind and was drowned. | | | Vincent Astor claimed a pocket watch found in his father's clothing, going on to wear the watch for the rest of his life. | | | This project worked off the designs devised by Nikola Tesla. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/John_Jacob_Astor_IV
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| | Treachery on the Titanic |
| | John Astor did not believe that the Titanic would sink and did not approach the lifeboats until 1.45am. | | | Astor watched his wife leave the ship in lifeboat 4. | | | Divorced from his first wife, he had recently re-married 18 year old Madeleine Force and was returning from honeymooning in Europe, chosen to escape the gossip. |
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| | She brought long lines of established social background to the Astor fortune and became the undisputed Queen of American Society. | | | William Backhouse Astor, Jr., purchased the mansion in 1881, and it became the social center for New York Society for twenty-five years of the Gilded Age. | | | William B., as his wife called him, was the grandson of John Jacob Astor, the German immigrant who made himself the richest man in America by investing in fur trading and real estate. |
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| | The Astors: Overview |
| | Stead gained attention as a crusading - or merely exploitative and sensationalist - journalist, claiming a desire to | | | John Jacob Astor (1763-1848), born in Waldorf, Germany, migrated to the US at the age of 20. | | | Astor's New York: Money and Social Power in a Gilded Age (New Haven: Yale Uni Press 2002) and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. |
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| | Hospitality |
| | Without Reservations: From Harlem to the End of the Santa Fe Trail. | | | on Park Avenue at 51st St.; named after Astor family's hometown in Germany; 1949 - purchased by Hilton. | | | Day by Day: The Story of Cecil B. Day and His Simple Formula for Success. |
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| | John Jacob Astor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Astor arrived in the United States in March 1784 just after the end of the Revolutionary War. | | | In his Will, he gave orders to build the Astor Library for the New York public (later consolidated with other libraries to form New York Public Library), as well as a poorhouse in his German hometown, Walldorf. | | | , instead of his eldest son John Jacob Astor II (1791-1869). |
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| | Royal Family of Europe - pafg144 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File |
| | John Irvine BULLOCH was born about 1787 in Ga. | | | William ASTOR [Parents] was born in 1830 in New York, New York. | | | This part of the Astor fortune ended in a philanthropic foundation and the family is no longer among the wealthiest in America. |
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http://www.ishipress.com/royalfam/pafg144.htm
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| | John Jacob Astor VI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | 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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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacob_Astor_VI
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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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http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Davis/newport/biographies/wbastor.html
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| | John Jacob Astor IV, RMS Titanic - Astors' Beechwood Mansion, Newport RI |
| | In his will, Astor bequeathed $400,000 for the establishment of a reference library in New York City. | | | At his death in 1848, Astor was the wealthiest person in the country, worth $20 million. | | | The Astor Library opened its doors in 1849, in the building which is now the home of The New York Shakespeare Festival's Joseph Papp Public Theater. |
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| | ASTOR, JOHN JACOB (176... - Online Information article about ASTOR, JOHN JACOB (176... |
| | Astor made vast additions to, his See also: | | | His son, JOHN JACOB ASTOR (1822-1890), was also well known as a capitalist and philanthropist, giving liberally to the Astor library. | | | He was sometimes known as the " Landlord of New York." Under his direction the See also: |
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| | New York Architecture Images- The Waldorf Astoria |
| | In 1890, John Jacob Astor III bequeathed his home to his son, William Waldorf Astor, who decided not to live in it. | | | It infuriated him that, due to her high social standing, the press and Society had fallen into the habit of referring to his aunt as “Mrs. | | | William B. Astor and her son, John Jacob IV and his family, and it was completed in January 1896. |
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| | Astor family: Encyclopedia topic |
| | Madeleine Astor (Madeleine Astor: more facts about this subject) (1894-1940) | | | There is an Astor Park in Florida and an Astor Court and Astor Place in New York City and a large number of town and city thoroughfares bearing the family name. | | | John Jacob Astor's brother also immigrated to America. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/reference/astor_family
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| | WowEssays.com - The Effects Of The Titanic |
| | After the war he moved to New York and obtained R.H. Macy & Co. He also severed as Congressman for New York Tate in 1895. | | | When investigators of the shipwreck found that there were only enough lifeboats for about half of the passengers aboard many reforms were issued. | | | (Astor Encyclopedia Titantica) The sinking of the Titanic directly contributed to the 1910s’ and subsequent years through reforms in ship policies and travel codes. |
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| | John Jacob Astor IV |
| | John Jacob IV bulit the Astoria secton of what would become the Waldorf Astoria Hotel (1897) in New York city (this was on the site that were the Empire State building would be built in 1929). | | | Great grandson of John Jacob Astor, who founded the family fortune. | | | He also built the Knickerbocker and the St. Regis hotels. |
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| | St. Regis Hotel and Resort history at Starwood |
| | He wanted to create a hotel where gentlemen and their families could feel as comfortable as they would as guests in a private home; in fact, he frequently used The St. Regis as a place for his personal guests and visiting relatives to stay at his invitation. | | | Astor's original mission in creating the St. Regis was to bring the feeling of Old World charm, service and hospitality to the New World. | | | This legendary property is our flagship, consistently ranked as one of the world's finest hotels. |
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| | Astor's Beechwood Mansion Boston Central |
| | Astor, she was the creator of the first American social register, 'The 400,' and the mother of John Jacob Astor IV, who died on the RMS Titanic. | | | Astors' Beechwood, a beautiful ocean front mansion located on Bellevue Avenue in historic Newport, Rhode Island, is the former home of the Queen of American Society, Caroline Astor. | | | Please call directly to confirm; we would appreciate it if you report any errors to us. |
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| | thePeerage.com - Person Page 12667 |
| | General John A. Armstrong held the office of U.S. Minister to France. | | | She was a celebrated society queen of New York and Newport, Rhode Island. | | | This page was created by John Cardinal's Second Site v1.9.7. |
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| | John Jacob Astor - definition of John Jacob Astor by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | John Jacob Astor - United States capitalist (born in Germany) who made a fortune in fur trading (1763-1848) | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | John Jacob Astor, relative to that portion of our country, and to the adventurous traders to Santa Fe and the Columbia. |
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| | ZoomInfo Web Summary: John Astor |
| | Click to find more people named John Astor... | | | It was a process that took place in India, Africa, the Pacific and the United States where it was John Jacob Astor who sponsored the famed Lewis and Clark expedition of 1808 who charted and claimed the Columbia River for Astor's American Fur Company. | | | This web summary was automatically generated using 190 sources: |
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| | Urban Legends Reference Pages: Glurge Gallery (Boldt Action) |
| | he and Astor had become close friends since meeting at the Bellevue two years earlier. | | | George C. Boldt, who established the the premiere level of service for which the Waldorf (and later the Waldorf-Astoria) became world-renowned. | | | Astor IV built the Astoria next door in 1897, the two hotels were run jointly as the Waldorf-Astoria) until it was closed on |
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| | John Jacob Astor IV - Wikiquote |
| | John Jacob Astor IV (13 July 1864 - 15 April 1912) American businessman, inventor, writer and a member of the prominent Astor family; at the beginning of the 20th century he was known as the richest man in the world. | | | Last known words, giving up his own seat to a female passenger while putting his pregnant wife Madeline on one of the last lifeboats of the Titanic. | | | Because of a change in the settings of this wiki, the "E-mail this user" function will not work anymore if you do not confirm your e-mail address |
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| | Northwest News Release |
| | Kirchhoff plays John Jacob Astor IV, the gentleman known especially for his heroism when he went down with the Titanic. | | | Reid Kirchhoff, native of Higginsville, Mo., and a 2004 theatre performance graduate, is part of the current Beechwood Theatre Company whose members live in the Astor family mansion and who present daily living history performances of the famous American family and its members’ lifestyle. | | | While a student, Kirchhoff also wrote and directed two original works, Lives on Hiatus and a touring children's show, The Imagination Station. |
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| | Brooke Astor |
| | Upon Vincent Astor's death in 1959 she took charge of the philanthropies to which he left his fortune, and, despite liquidating the Vincent Astor Foundation in 1997, has continued to be active in charities and in New York (New York: A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) 's social life. | | | She is the author of several books, including novels and a memoir, A Patchwork Child. | | | The updated page can be found at: brooke astor |
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| | Picture History - John Jacob Astor IV (1864-1912) |
| | At the beginning of the Spanish-American War in 1898, he placed his yacht, the Nourmahal, at the disposal of the Navy Department. | | | He and his wife took passage on the Titanic in 1912. | | | Picture History - John Jacob Astor IV (1864-1912) |
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| | John Jacob Astor IV: Science Fiction Inventions |
| | Besides dabbling in science fiction, he also patented several inventions, including a vibratory disintegrator used to produce gas from peat moss and a pneumatic road-improver. | | | John Jacob Astor dreamed of electric cars that would serve us in 1894; all he needed was a really good battery technology. | | | John Jacob Astor IV (1864-1912) was the great-grandson of John Jacob Astor (wealthiest man in the U.S. in the 1830's from fur trading and real estate). |
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| | John Jacob Astor IV (Ava Lowle Willing Astor) wearing fur-trimmed coat and large hat with feathers(?). |
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| | The Astors: History |
| | 1763 John Jacob Astor born in Waldorf, Germany | | | 1912 John Jacob Astor IV dies in the sinking of the Titanic | | | 1933 Vincent Astor and W Averill Harriman launch Today magazine in New York |
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| | Find Astor at myEweb.com |
| | With over 5 million items for sale every day, you'll find all kinds of unique things on eBay - the World's Online Marketplace. | | | 40 by St. Johns River and Lake George. | | | Get research, compare, and upgrade your money manager. |
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| | William Walforf Astor |
| | He built the Waldorf section (1893) of what would become the Waldorf Astoria (1897). | | | William Waldorf Astor was a cousin of John Jacob Astor IV, the great grandson of John Jacob Astor. |
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| | Old Marine Engine: John Jacob Astor IV launch |
| | KS, possibly a july 1911 issue of a trade publication such as Yachting or Motor Boating would make mention of FAWAN's delivery as celebreties like JJ Astor were news of the day. | | | Enter your username and password if you have an account. | | | Old Marine Engine: John Jacob Astor IV launch |
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| | Sea Scope Yacht Charters in Newport, RI |
| | of 1911, the recently divorced J.J. Astor IV, wed Madeleine Talmadge Force, age 18. | | | Madeleine, who was pregnant with John Jacob Astor VI, survived. | | | It was on their return from a trip to Egypt in the spring of 1912 that John Jacob Astor IV died aboard the Titanic. |
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| | John Jacob Astor IV (Ava Lowle Willing Astor), posed in dressing gown(?), facing front. |
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