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	Colonel John Jacob Astor
		Colonel John Jacob Astor IV was born in Rhinebeck, New York on July 13th, 1864 the son of William Astor and great-grandson of John Jacob Astor the fur trader. Astor was educated at St. Paul's School, Concord and later went to Harvard.
		They wore their lifebelts but Colonel Astor had found another and cut the lining with a pen knife to show his wife what it was made of.
		Astor helped his wife to climb through the windows of the enclosed promenade and then asked if he might join her, being as she was in 'a delicate condition'.
	www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /biography.php?id=11 (1050 words)

	ipedia.com: John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, born May 20, 1886 in New York City, United States died July 19, 1971 in Cannes, France, was a military officer, statesman, a newspaper proprietor, and a mem...
		John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, born May 20, 1886 in New York City, United States – died July 19, 1971 in Cannes, France, was a military officer, statesman, a newspaper proprietor, and a member of the prominent Astor family.
		Lord Astor of Hever was the fourth child of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor (1848-1919) and Mary Dahlgren Paul (1858-1894).
	www.ipedia.com /john_jacob_astor__1st_baron_astor_of_hever.html (435 words)

	The Astor Bloodline
		John Jacob Astor was born in Waldorf, Duchy of Baden (Germany) from a Jewish bloodline.
		John Jacob Astor, the first prominent Astor was a notorious liar, “he was known on occasion to invent romantic tales for the edification of people who annoyed him with questions......
		John Jacob’s step-mother Christina Barbara is described as “the perfect, cruel fairy tale stepmother.” John Jacob ‘raised the principle of self-interest to the level of a philosophy and.....
	www.theforbiddenknowledge.com /hardtruth/the_astor_bloodline.htm (7545 words)

	John Jacob Astor
		The house was known as John Jacob Astor & Son from 1815 till 1827.
		Finally the elder Astor withdrew, and was soon followed by his son, and from that time forth neither of them engaged again in commerce.
		In 1879 his eldest son, John Jacob, presented three lots adjoining the library building, and erected on them a third structure similar to the others, and added a story to the central building.
	www.famousamericans.net /johnjacobastor (1357 words)

	John Jacob Astor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Jacob (originally either Johann Jakob or Johann Jacob) Astor (July 17, 1763 - March 29, 1848) was the first of the Astor family dynasty and the first millionaire in the United States, making his fortune in the fur trade and real estate industries.
		Astor took advantage of the Jay Treaty between Great Britain and the United States in 1794 which opened new markets in Canada and the Great Lakes region.
		John Jacob Astor is interred in the Trinity Churchyard Cemetery on 155th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Jacob_Astor (800 words)

	Astor, John Jacob - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		His Astor House was a forerunner of family hotel properties that much later included the Astor Hotel and the Waldorf-Astoria.
		Narrator of "Bartleby": The Christian-Humanist Acquaintance of John Jacob Astor.(Critical Essay)
		Brooke Astor, 104, 'left by her son to live in squalor'.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-astrj1j1g1er.html (378 words)

	Famous Passengers
		John Jacob Astor, one of the world's richest men, and visited her daughter, Catherine Ellen, at a Paris finishing school.
		Astor mentioned his wife's "delicate condition" when asking an officer if he could take one of several empty seats in her lifeboat, but the officer refused.
		Astor, who was twice remarried and died in 1940, rarely spoke of the tragedy, except to recall her final memory: Kitty, on deck, pacing frantically.
	www.seorf.ohiou.edu /~ag148/pass.html (1303 words)

	quidnunc.org: Archives
		There was a big scandal going on at the time, because John Jacob Astor, a millionaire in his late 40s, had married an 18-year-old girl who was already pregnant with his child.
		John Jacob Astor (Madeleine Force), saying that she was "in a delicate condition".
		In real life, the 18-year-old wife of John Jacob Astor survived and gave birth to the child, whom she named John Jacob Astor V. His estate gave her an endowment of $5,000,000, on the condition that she never remarry.
	quidnunc.org /archives/2001/05/index.html (1531 words)

	Amazon.fr : John Jacob Astor: America's First Millionaire: Livres en anglais: Axel Madsen,Madsen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Having immigrated to the U.S. from Germany in 1783, Astor was on friendly terms with such prominent figures as Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Albert Gallatin by the time he came to dominate the North American fur trade in 1800.
		Called Astor, it was designed not only to aid its founder's domination of the fur trade in the Northwest, but to help him facilitate trade with China--for while fur brought Astor his first fortune, foreign trade provided him with his second.
		Astor was born in Germany in 1763 and came to the New World at age 20 with a shipment of musical instruments as his stake.
	www.amazon.fr /John-Jacob-Astor-Americas-Millionaire/dp/0471385034 (614 words)

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		John Jacob Astor was born in Walldorf, Duchy of Baden (Germany) from a Jewish bloodline.
		John Jacob Astor’ s descendents had a penchant for secrecy, and set up things to rule from behind the scenes.
		The Astors p.44) WILLIAM BACKHOUSE ASTOR This was the son of John Jacob Astor.
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	Astor, John Jacob (Nuttall Encyclopædia)
		/ · 1907 Nuttall Encyclopædia of General Knowledge · A · Astor, John Jacob
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		Astor, John Jacob, a millionaire, son of a German peasant, who made a fortune of four millions in America by trading in furs (1763-1848).
	www.fromoldbooks.org /Wood-NuttallEncyclopaedia/a/astorjohnjacob.html (86 words)

	The Astor Bloodline
		Prior to 1817, John Jacob Astorentered into the fur trade and remained the biggest player in the fur tradeuntil he got out of it in 1834.
		John Jacob Astor arrived in England and may well have been introduced In England to British Intelligence by his brother George.
		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.
	www.thewatcherfiles.com /bloodlines/astor.htm (7507 words)

	John Jacob Astor
		John Jacob Astor, the great-grandson of the famous fur trader and financier of the same name, was one of the wealthiest men on earth, with assets somewhere around $100 million (compared to J.P. Morgan, who had amassed a fortune of only $30 million).
		Astor was an inventor (of a bicycle brake, a storage battery, an internal combustion engine, a flying machine, a machine for removing surface dirt from roads, and an improved marine turbine engine) and also founder of the Astoria (later the Waldorf Astoria) Hotel in New York City.
		His pneumatic walkway invention won a prize at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and he was one of the first Americans to own a motor car.
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /a/john-jacob-astor (240 words)

	1912 - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		August 14 - John Jacob Astor V, member of the Astor family (d.
		September 5 - John Cage, American composer (d.
		April 15 - John Jacob Astor IV, businessman {aboard the Titanic}
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/1912 (1234 words)

	AllRefer.com - John Jacob Astor, 1864–1912, American financier, (Business Leaders, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		John Jacob Astor, 1864–1912, American financier, Business Leaders
		Rhinebeck, N. Y.; son of William Backhouse Astor (1829–92).
		Drowned in the Titanic disaster, he left two sons, Vincent, the son of his first marriage, and John Jacob Astor, fifth of the name in America, the son of his second marriage.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/AstrJJRhin.html (217 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		proper name, biblical son of Jacob (also the name of a tribe descended from him), from Heb., lit.
		son of Jacob by Leah (O.T.), name of a biblical tribe of Israel, from Gk.
		The first in America is said to have been John Jacob Astor (1763-1848).
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=Jacob (680 words)

	Guy St. Clair captures John Jacob Astor Award Information Outlook - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The eponym for this award, John Jacob Astor, was born on July 17, 1763, in Walldorf near Heidelberg, Germany.
		Since the 240th birthday of John Jacob Astor in 2003, the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation has presented its annual award in cooperation with the Initiative Fortbildung fur Wissenschaftliche Spezialbibliotheken und verwandte Einrichtungen e.V. (Continuing Education Initiative for Special Research Libraries and Related Institutions e.V.).
		The first is the John Jacob Astor Award in Library Studies and Information Science (Checkpoint Charlie Foundation Award).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FWE/is_4_8/ai_n6035222 (682 words)

	Descendants of John Jacob Astor and Sarah Todd
		Descendants of John Jacob Astor and Sarah Todd
		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
		4.2.1.1.1.1.1.Honourable Flora Katherine Astor (1976), engaged 2006 to Alexander Theophilus [of the baronets] Rycroft (1975)
	www.angelfire.com /in/heinbruins/Astor.html (3190 words)

	Jacob Fine Art at absolutearts.com
		Jacob George Strutt, Cottage in the Forest of Arden, 1829
		Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, The Sudarium of Saint Veronica, 1520 - 1521
		Jacob Savery I, Armorum Nulla VI Conterit Ora Leonis Victor et Ex Lucta Fortis Abit Dubla (Samson Wrestling with the Lion), Judges 14:5, from a group of Biblical illustrations printed by C.J. Visscher, 17th century
	wwar.com /masters/j/jacob--works.html (4330 words)

	Astor family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Beyond the famous Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, the Astor family name is imprinted in a great deal of United States history and geography.
		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.
		John Jacob Astor, 3rd Baron Astor of Hever (born 1946)
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Astor_family (552 words)

	Rhode Island news \| projo.com \| The Providence Journal \| Digital Extra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Eileen was married on Dec. 26, 1940, at her mother's eight-story Manhattan residence; the wedding photos reveal a dashingly handsome young groom and a beautiful young bride dressed in a white gown and, as she leaves for her honeymoon in Mexico, a stylish fur jacket.
		The albums do not record Eileen's earlier ill-fated engagement to John Jacob Astor V, distant relative of Candy Van Alen's late husband who in the 1930s was said to be one of the richest young man in the world.
		"John's secretary -- who did my mail, too -- had a nervous breakdown and that was the end of her," Eileen says.
	www.projo.com /cgi-bin/include.pl/specials/newportsummer/chapter2.htm (4353 words)

	John Jacob Artworks and Fine Art at arthistorynet.com
		John Jacob Astor - Illustration to Trappers and Traders, p.15, 19th - 20th century
		Jacob Matham, The Holy Family and St. John, 16th - 17th century
		In 1941, at the age of 24, Jacob Lawrence became the first African-American artist to have a w...
	www.absolutearts.com /masters/j/jacob-john.html (448 words)

	John Jacob Astor by Lewis K. Parker, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0823964477
		John Jacob Astor: And the Fur Trade (Parker, Lewis...
		The history of Astor on the St. Johns, Astor Park,...
		John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Earl...
	www.bookfinder4u.com /detail/0823964477.html (299 words)

	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - 1992
		April 2 - In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder of mob boss Paul Castellano and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison
		April 9 - United Kingdom general election - John Major unexpectedly re-elected.
		June 23 - Mafia boss John Gotti is sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering on April 2 [2]
	fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/1992 (2433 words)

	John Jacob Astor Award - Checkpoint Charlie Stiftung
		Since the 240th birthday of John Jacob Astor in 2003, the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation has annually awarded the John Jacob Astor Award in Library and Information Science, in cooperation with the Initiative Fortbildung für Wissenschaftliche Spezialbibliotheken und verwandte Einrichtungen e.V. (Continuing Education Initiative for Special Research Libraries and Related Institutions e.V.)
		The Prize enables German or American persons who have made a special contribution to transatlantic knowledge transfer to come to Berlin for a special professional conference.
		The Checkpoint Charlie Foundation seeks, through this prize and the associated workshop, to achieve a strong multiplictory effect in which German information specialists are able to learn from the considerable methodological and technological advances of their American colleagues in the field, while narrowing the transatlantic divide.
	www.cc-stiftung.de /en/awardsandstipends/johnjacobastoraward (200 words)

	John Jacob Astor IV
		Great grandson of John Jacob Astor, who founded the family fortune.
		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).
		He also built the Knickerbocker and the St. Regis hotels.
	www.foodreference.com /html/wjohnjacobastoriv.html (153 words)

	AllRefer.com - John Jacob Astor, 1763–1848, American merchant, (Business Leaders, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		John Jacob Astor, 1763–1848, American merchant, Business Leaders
		John Jacob Astor[as´tur] Pronunciation Key, 1763–1848, American merchant, b.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on John Jacob Astor, 1763–1848, American merchant
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	TIME.com: -- Aug. 2, 1971 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A steadfast foe of America's entry into World War II, he popularized the phrase "merchants of death" to describe munitions makers, later was one of the drafters of the 1936 Neutrality Act barring U.S. aid to belligerents.
		Lord Astor of Hever, 85, patriarch of the Astor family's British branch, and between 1922 and 1959 publisher of the London Times; of heart disease; in Cannes, France.
		A great-great-grandson of the American fur trader who founded the family fortune, John Jacob Astor V began his 23-year career in the House of Commons in 1922, the same year he bought control of the Times.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,878445,00.html (660 words)

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		The grounds, stretching as far as could be seen, were laid out by "Capability" Brown, one of the first landscapers.
		Another visit was to Hever House, property most recently of John Jacob Astor V but built at the time of Henry VIII.
		There was a maze here that the children explored (the one at Blenheim was said to be "the world’s largest symbolic maze," but we didn’t find it in all the space) and a wonderful Florentine garden with much Italian sculpture of lecherous old men with beards and water cherubs and nymphs.
	www.durangoherald.com /columnists/articles/morlArticles/morl010724.htm (601 words)

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