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  VINCENT ASTOR AS HEAD OF HIS FAMILY : New York Times (1912) - 17 April 1912
At the time of the divorce the amount of John Jacob Astor's settlement on his wife was not made public, but it was said to be $10,000,000 in cash, on the provision that this sum would later revert to Muriel.
Ava Willing Astor obtained her divorce no information was given out concerning the financial settlement but it has since been rumored that Muriel Astor, having been placed by the court in her mother's custody, will not be among her father's heirs.
Astor received, to secure from her a release of her dower right in the estate, was never made public, but has been reported several times as $2,000,000.
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 Astor Family Gets Judge To Close The Door on Guardianship Case - August 30, 2006 - The New York Sun
Describing Brooke Astor as a woman who "invited the world into her living room," a state judge ruled yesterday that sections of the 104 year-old philanthropist's guardianship proceeding will be open to the public.
Astor's medical records were to be kept sealed and that portions of hearings dealing with her health would be kept closed.
Astor's grandson, Philip Marshall, sued his father, Anthony Marshall, alleging that he was neglecting Mrs.
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  Astor family - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Astor family, founded by the German immigrant John Jacob Astor and his wife Sarah Todd, became the wealthiest family in the United States during the 19th century.
As the 20th century wore on the family fortunes declined, but their legacy lives on in their many public works including the New York Public Library, and members of the British branch hold two hereditary peerages, a viscountcy and a barony.
A number of Astor family members are buried in Trinity Church Cemetery in Manhattan, New York.
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  Astor Piazzolla
Nonwithstanding this antagonism, various tangos were written in his homage, one of them by Julio De Caro, a significant figure in the genre, as testimony of admiration aroused by that rough and fighting individual, who challenged all standards.
Astor Pantaleón was born in 1921 in Mar del Plata, when that fishing port in the Atlantic ocean, 420 kilometers south from Buenos Aires, was at the same time an aristocratic sea resort, not yet so popular.
Astor´s innovative drive began to be displayed in 1944, when he left Troilo to lead the orchestra which should provide musical accompaniment for the singer Francisco Fiorentino.
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 The Astor Bloodline
Astor became a banker, and sat on the board of 5 directors of the new national bank that Hamilton created for the U.S. government called the Bank of the United States.
The Astor family also used Owen Lattimore as their proxy for opium trade, who in turn used Laura Spelman who was funded by the Institute for Pacific Relations (I. The I. R was the group that supervised the Illuminati’s decision to allow Red China to share in the Opium trade.
These families are portrayed as the 13 layers of blocks found on the strange seal on the reverse side of the U.S. $1 bill.” In a little read article, one SRA victim recently wrote that Satanism was controlled by a few families.
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 All About Romance Novels - The Gilded Age
The Astor family was one of the wealthiest in America, having made their fortune in the fur trade back during the Colonial period.
Astor's idea of a Bohemian was the author Edith Wharton, born Edith Jones, from an old and distinguished New York family.
Astor's daughter, Carrie, and her friends had been practicing a Star Quadrille for some time and Carrie was very much looking forward to the ball.
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 Astor family at AllExperts
There is a town of Astor in the states of Florida, Georgia, Iowa, and Kansas and there are Astorias in Illinois, Missouri, New York, and Oregon.
There is an Astor Park in Florida and an Astor Court and Astor Place in New York City, Chicago and a large number of town and city thoroughfares bearing the family name.
A number of Astor family members are buried in Trinity Church Cemetery in Manhattan, New York.
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 Astor Family Wants Hearings Closed to Public - August 29, 2006 - The New York Sun
Lawyers for Brooke Astor's family yesterday asked a judge to keep the public out of the courtroom where the 104-year-old philanthropist's guardianship case will be argued.
Astor's family life are expected to emerge during the hearings.
Astor's staff, neglecting to fill her prescriptions, and of refusing to buy her new clothing, among other things.
www.nysun.com /article/38711   (389 words)

  
 The Astor Bloodline
Astor became a banker, and sat on the board of 5 directors of the new national bank that Hamilton created for the U.S. government called the Bank of the United States.
The Astor family also used Owen Lattimore as their proxy for opium trade, who in turn used Laura Spelman who was funded by the Institute for Pacific Relations (I. The I. R was the group that supervised the Illuminati’s decision to allow Red China to share in the Opium trade.
These families are portrayed as the 13 layers of blocks found on the strange seal on the reverse side of the U.S. $1 bill.” In a little read article, one SRA victim recently wrote that Satanism was controlled by a few families.
www.theforbiddenknowledge.com /hardtruth/the_astor_bloodline.htm   (0 words)

  
 John Jacob Astor Biography - Biography.com
The son of a German butcher, Astor grew up to become one of the leading businessmen of his day and the founder of an American dynasty.
Astor spent much of his later years in mourning for his wife Sara who died in 1834.
Astor, the wealthiest man in country at the time, died in 1848.
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 Brooke Astor
Philanthropist Brooke Astor was born in New Hampshire and raised in Waikiki, Panama, Peking, and Mexico.
Brooke Astor now suffers from Alzheimer's disease, and in 2006 she became the subject of a lawsuit alleging elder abuse.
Her grandson claims that Astor's son, Anthony Dryden Marshall, forced her to sleep on a urine-drenched couch, kept her beloved dogs locked in a separate room, replaced her name-brand face cream with petroleum jelly, and switched her prescriptions to lower-cost generic drugs.
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 Training   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Astor Home uses the APPIC application along with three letters of recommendation, copies of graduate school transcript(s), curriculum vitae, and an integrated psychological assessment report of a anonymous client that includes cognitive and projective testing (including Rorschach) for consideration as the application.
The Astor residential programs are housed in together in rural Rhinebeck, New York, and provide specialized services to 75 boys and girls between the ages of 5 and 13.
Day Treatment individual and family cases are seen weekly and session times range from 15 minutes with the youngest clients to one hour for older clients and their families.
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 Oregon History ProjectOHP Oregon Biographies John Jacob Astor   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Astor was one of the wealthiest men the country had ever seen and his meager public bequest caused many to remember him as a miser who attempted to found an American dynasty by keeping the money in his family.
Astor expanded the scope of his trade around the turn of the century and began trading furs for tea in China.
Astor expected the venture to be profitable in its third year, but it did not last that long.
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 Astor family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gavin Astor, 2nd Baron Astor of Hever (1918-1984)
Elizabeth, Baroness Astor of Hever (born 1950) - 2nd wife of John Jacob Astor, 3rd Baron Astor of Hever
Irene Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever (1919-2001) - daughter of Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig and widow of Gavin Astor, 2nd Baron Astor of Hever
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 Astor, Florida vacations: resorts, cabins, cottages, inns, vacation lodging information, north FL
Astor lies nestled among the trees of the Ocala National Forest and is bordered by the St. Johns River on the east.
It was named after the famous Astor family who were early settlers of the area and had the first hotel in the area.
Astor is on the outskirts of the Ocala National Forest which protects all the wildlife in the area.
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 Prevention   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Astor’s Intensive Home-Based Family Preservation Program is a short-term crisis intervention and family education program to prevent foster care placement.
Astor staff is also the primary contact for any outside agencies that are involved with the students at C.E.S. After consulting with these agencies, the staff then provides any relevant information that would assist the school and the teachers to help the children function in the school.
A family advocate provides outreach to the home and advocacy for the family with the school as well as with the larger service system.
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 Painting at core of Astor family feud
The Astor court fight, offering a rare glimpse into the private life of one of New York's oldest and wealthiest families, is being followed closely by New York news media.
Astor's third and last husband, Vincent Astor, was the great-great-grandson of John Jacob Astor, who made his fortune in fur trading in the 19th century.
Astor, who has Alzheimer's and was hospitalized earlier this summer in New York City, is currently living at her Westchester County estate, Holly Hill.
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 [CTRL] Fwd: DN - The Astor Illuminati Family (http://x9.dej
John Jacob Astor was born in Walldorf, Duchy of Baden (Germany) from a Jewish bloodline.
The Astor family also used Owen Lattimore as their proxy for opium trade, who in turn used Laura Spelman who was funded by the Institute for Pacific Relations (IPR).
Followup on the Astors One of the items that I felt I should have given the readers back in the 1/1/93 issue was the Masonic background of John Jacob Astor (1763-1848).
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 Surname Histories, Family History, Name Histories
The descent of the DAVIS family from Eidio Wyllt, Earl of Desmond, born 1044/5.
The STUMP and LEWIS families, mostly of Malmesbury and Ramsbury.
PEPYS, W.C. The GENEALOGY OF THE PEPYS FAMILY.
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 "Our Nancy: The Story of Nancy Astor and Her Gift to the University of Virginia" by Courtney Wilson
Joining the boom with railroads, Chiswell was able to pull his family out of their tiny bungalow to a charming mansion at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Although John Jacob Astor I made a very comfortable sum, it was John Jacob II that was the first Astor to "use his money so as to live a larger life." (NA 26).
His son Waldorf Astor was quiet and serious like his father, but he had a lot more livelihood and charm to his personality.
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 The Hotel Astor and Associated Curios
At a cost of $7,000,000 William Waldorf Astor built the 35,000 square foot hotel which was designed by the architectural firm of Clinton and Russell and was constructed by John Downey.
The building proper was in the French Renaissance style, carried out in red brick and limestone with a Mansard roof made from copper and green slate.
It was truly, as their motto stated, the culmination of years of artistic study.
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 Scotsman.com News - International - Son loses control of Astor family fortune
Anthony D Marshall, 82, and his wife, Charlene, 61, will also be required to relinquish their positions as co-executors of Astor's estate and to post millions of dollars in collateral, in the form of a Maine vacation property, to cover any potential claims against Marshall's handling of his mother's wealth.
The spectacle of warring family members trading charges of misconduct and greed began in July, when Marshall's son, Philip, 53, filed court papers accusing his father of neglecting the care of his grandmother and enriching himself from her estate, valued in tens of millions of dollars.
Astor, who was hospitalised briefly at the end of July, has been living at her beloved Westchester estate for months.
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 Beechwood, the Astors' Newport mansion - Astors' Beechwood Mansion, Newport RI
Beechwood, the Astors' Newport mansion - Astors' Beechwood Mansion, Newport RI
Members of the Astor family (portrayed by the Beechwood Theatre Company) have arrived for the season and are receiving visitors!
Astors' Beechwood is the perfect location for your next corporate event or special celebration.
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 Bloodlines of the Illuminati by Fritz Springmeier (one document)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Most of the Astors took off for England, but one branch of the Astors that is clearly involved in Satanism and the occult is the Chanler family.
Some powerful families around the world participate simply on the level that they have been sucked into the world’s system and are dependent upon going along with the flow of the world’s system.
The Bundy family was an old American family that was part of the Eastern establishment, but with only a few exceptions like Congressman Solomon Bundy in the early 19th century, the family has only come into the public’s eye during the twentieth century.
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 NYO - The Transom   (Site not responding. Last check: )
On Sunday, July 30—Day 5 of the Astor Family Circus—it was time for Anthony Marshall, the 82-year-old son of Brooke Astor, to shine in The New York Times.
He appeared at the gates of the family estate in Westchester, on a maternal visit, with priest in tow.
Despite that potential shortcoming, and also despite being the bringer of the lawsuit, young Philip Marshall has, in his seeming silence, maintained a semblance of the family dignity both by not grandstanding outside the family manse and by using the reserved Mr.
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 The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Astor family feud faces partial peek by public
Stackhouse sealed the case in July at the request of Astor's grandson, Philip Marshall, after the Daily News reported he had gone to court to remove his father as legal guardian.
Astor's charitable efforts won her a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 1998.
Marshall has alleged that in recent years his ailing grandmother was reduced to sleeping on a filthy couch to escape a cold bedroom and subsisted on pureed peas and oatmeal, the News reported.
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 William Waldorf Astor Viscount
… the fourth generation after its inception the Astor dynasty suddenly split, as a consequence of the main heir William Waldorf Astor family's expatriation to England.
He founded what was to be known as the English Branch of the Astor family.
The family of William Astor and Caroline Schermerhorn, their four well married daughters and their son and namesake of the family founder, made up the mainline of the American Astors …
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 Gifts of Speech - Brooke Astor
John Jacob Astor was born in 1763 in Waldorf, a hamlet lying between Heidelberg and the Rhine.
Jacob Astor was described as a "worthy man," a cautious and wise father who did not deprive his son of good advice and set him a good example.
It is that in spite of the fact that one always hears of John Jacob Astor making his money in the fur trade and the busy beaver was his logo--still, the main base of his fortune was Manhattan Island real estate.
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 Another Sad Chapter in the Brooke Astor Family Story -- New York Magazine
Marshall is the child of Brooke Astor’s first marriage, at age 17, to John Dryden Kuser, a wealthy New Jersey man she has described as an alcoholic, womanizing wife beater.
In the tabloids, the Astor saga has been framed as a tale of elder abuse, a legendary philanthropist deprived of proper care in her final years.
Brooke Astor is a magnificent benefactor and a legendary hostess, but she was, by her own account, a lousy mother.
www.newyorkmetro.com /news/features/18860/index.html   (961 words)

  
 Family Vacation Ideas - Home Page
Family vacations can be relaxing, adventurous and joyful-a special time to be playful and to experience each other differently, away from home.
Family vacations can also be disasters-with whining children, family bickering and bad weather.
And making the most of the experience can mean different things to different family members (you want to relax on the beach; little Jackson wants to hit the amusement park).
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