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| | John Jacob Astor IV, RMS Titanic - Astors' Beechwood Mansion, Newport RI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11) |
 | | John Jacob Astor IV, RMS Titanic - Astors' Beechwood Mansion, Newport RI Astor, John Jacob —1763-1848 John Jacob Astor was born in Waldorf, Germany in 1763 and emigrated to the New World at the close of the Revolutionary War, when he was 21. |
 | | In 1790, John Jacob Astor married Sarah Todd, whose mother was a Brevoort. |
 | | 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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