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	John Jacob Astor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Jacob (originally Johann Jakob) 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 at the expense of the Canadians.
		John Jacob Astor is interred in the Trinity Churchyard Cemetery on the 155th Street in Manhattan, New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Jacob_Astor (724 words)

	John Jacob Astor VI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Jacob Astor VI (August 14, 1912 - June 26, 1992) was a member of the prominent Astor family.
		Astor had conceived during their honeymoon abroad, no provision for the unborn child was made in his already set will.
		John Jacob Astor VI died in Miami Beach, Florida at the age of 79.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Jacob_Astor_V (377 words)

	Sam Sloan's Big Combined Family Trees - pafg843 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		John Jacob IV ASTOR was born on 10 Jun 1864.
		John Jacob ASTOR was born on 17 Jul 1763 in Walldorf, Heidelberg, Germany.
		John Jacob II ASTOR was born in 1791 in .
	www.anusha.com /pafg843.htm (684 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/John Jacob Astor IV
		John Jacob Astor IV John Jacob Astor IV (July 13, 1864 - April 15, 1912) was a businessman, inventor, and writer and a member of the prominent Astor family.A great-grandson of the fur trader John Jacob Astor, he was born at "Ferncliff," the family's estate in Rhinebeck, New York to William Backhouse Astor, Jr.
		The second child was named Ava Alice Muriel Astor, always known as Alice; her actual parentage, however, remains uncertain.
		In the 1997 film adaptation, the role of John Jacob Astor IV was played by Eric Braeden, who was picked for his strong resemblance to Astor.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/John_Jacob_Astor_IV (682 words)

	Descendants of John Langhorne, 1640
		John Langhorne-[23775] was born in 1695 in Warwick County, Virginia and died in 1767 in Warwick County, Virginia at age 72.
		John Trotter Langhorne-[15693] was born on 1-4-1779 in Mississippi, died on 6-30-1833 in Maysville, Kentucky at age 54, and was buried in 1833 in Maysville Cemetery, Maysville, Kentucky.
		John Scarsbrook Langhorne-[10241] was born on 6-1-1819 in Cumberland County, Virginia and died on 8-29-1886 in Lynchburg, Virginia at age 67.
	www.livelyroots.com /langhorne/d1.htm (13889 words)

	John Jacob Astor IV
		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 German immigrant who made himself the richest man in America by investing in fur trading and real estate.
		Astor was educated at St. Paul's School, Concord and later went to Harvard.
		Mr and Mrs Astor travelled to Egypt and Paris and, in the spring of 1912, decided to return to America as First Class passengers on board the brand new Titanic, probably because, given that Madeleine was 5 months pregnant, they wanted the baby to be born in America.
	goofy313g.free.fr /calisota_online/exist/astor.html (645 words)

	Gustavus Myers, History of the Great American Fortunes, vol I, part 2, ch 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		CHAPTER VI At the time of his father’s death William B. Astor, the chief heir of John Jacob Astor’s twenty million dollars, was fifty-six years old.
		John Jacob Astor, Jr., never built a railroad in his life ; he knew nothing about railroads ; but by virtue of the possession of large surplus wealth, derived mainly from rents, he was enabled to buy enough of the stock to make him rank as a large stockholder.
		Laura A. Delano, a daughter of William B. Astor, a grant from Fifty-fifth to Fifty-seventh street, Hudson River, at $200 per running foot, and on May 21, 1867, a grant to John Jacob Astor, Jr., of lands under water between Forty-ninth and Fifty-first streets, Hudson River, for the trivial sum of $75 per running foot.
	www.geocities.com /doswind/myers/am_fortune_206.html (5329 words)

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		John Jacob Astor was born in Walldorf, 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.geocities.com /mnjacobs889a (20707 words)

	Lundberg: Chapter 16 Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Professor John Tebbel in The Inheritors, G. Putnam's Sons, N.Y., 1962, makes particular note in captions to photographs of the obvious boredom shown by some of the rich even in their pleasure haunts.
		William K. Vanderbilt, who had recently arrived in Miami on their yacht Ara and were snapped watching the races at Hialeah; on the face of John Jacob Astor VI at a big film premiere; on the Belmonts at Belmont Park; and on Marshall Field III and his third wife.
		John Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect, Harper and Bros., N.Y., 1950) pp.
	www.soilandhealth.org /03sov/0303critic/030304lberg/030304notes16.html (554 words)

	Sam Sloan's Big Combined Family Trees - pafg844 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		John Jacob IV ASTOR [Parents] was born on 10 Jun 1864 in Rhinebeck, New York.
		John Jacob VI ASTOR was born on 14 Aug 1912.
		James John ROOSEVELT was born on 14 Dec 1795 in New York City, New York, New York.
	www.anusha.com /pafg844.htm (488 words)

	Southern New York
		When John Jacob Astor was planning to erect the Astor House, in 1831, he purchased the house and lot of Mr.
		John was in the Revolutionary war and drew a pension from the government from 1831 to 1843, the year he died.
		Jacob Jansen Van Nostrandt was by occupation a brewer.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/historical/southernnewyork/s_ny_41.htm (4497 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Eton College
		The name 'King's Scholars' derives from the fact that the school was founded by King Henry VI in 1440 and was therefore granted royal favour.
		Eton College was founded in 1440 by Henry VI as a charity school to provide free education to seventy poor students who would then go on to King's College, Cambridge, which he also founded, in 1441.
		Henry VI took half the scholars and the headmaster from William of Wykeham's Winchester College (founded 1382).
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Eton_College (1226 words)

	Dr Charles Pellegrino - official website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Milvina Dean, nine weeks old when she escaped the Titanic with her mother in lifeboat 13, was destined to become a member of that elite minority of human beings who would enter the 21st century fighting with each other for the title of Youngest Titanic Survivor.
		John Jacob Astor VI was born four months after the sinking and was, according to most 20th century historians, legitimately able to claim that he was present, albeit as a borderline last trimester fetus (he died in 1992).
		Unfortunately, according to her friend John Hodges, she also attracted the attention of a shrewd businessman from Southampton, who declared her the one and true youngest Titanic survivor.
	www.charlespellegrino.com /walker.htm (2052 words)

	history project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Jacob Astor: The story of a German emigrant who established himself as the wealthiest man in America.
		Astor, acting on the dreams of earlier explorers, established the Pacific Fur Company along with a risky plan of transcontinental, and in all reality, international trade.
		John Jacob Astor, however, refused to give up completely on his failed Pacific Fur Company, and British complacency led to the Joint Occupation Treay of 1818.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/st/~kalenius/project.html (343 words)

	Special Collections -- Occasional Paper No. 8
		John Blue (1875-1945) was born in Tara, Ont. and educated at the University of Toronto.
		John Craig, a stock breeder from eastern Canada organized the Oxley Ranch Co. in England in 1881 and was manager until its sale in 1886.
		Irving's account of John Jacob Astor's attempt to establish the first American settlement on the Pacific coast in 1811 is based extensively on the memoirs of fur traders in the area.
	www.ucalgary.ca /library/SpecColl/OccPaper/occ8.htm (10227 words)

	ipedia.com: John Jacob Astor Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Jacob Astor made a fortune in fur trading and real estate.
		Astor turned his sights on New York City real estate.
		The great bulk of his fortune was bequeathed to his second son, William Backhouse Astor Sr, instead of his eldest son John Jacob Astor II (1791-1869).
	www.ipedia.com /john_jacob_astor.html (486 words)

	Social Diary 5/14/04 - Quest 400
		Astor (she wasn’t the only one, much to the annoyance of the others).
		The number 400 was said to be the capacity of her ballroom (first located in the Astor brownstone mansion on 34th Street and Fifth Avenue where the Empire State Building stands today, and later at the Astor limestone double-mansion on Fifth Avenue and 63rd Street where Temple Eman-uel is located today).
		John Morgan is one of five sons of Henry Sturgis Morgan, a great-grandson of J.
	www.newyorksocialdiary.com /socialdiary/2004/05_14_04/socialdiary05_14_04.php (1314 words)

	DOCTRINE OF ELECTION by Charles G. Finney
		Others were so much under their influence, as to be unwilling to offend them; and so strong was the tide of public sentiment, as that no one had the moral courage to break loose from the multitude and accept of life.
		Astor knew beforehand the state of the public mind, and that all the citizens hated him, and had rather die than be indebted to him for life.
		Suppose he also knew, from the beginning, that there were certain arguments that he could bring to bear upon certain individuals, that would change their minds, and that he should proceed to press them with these considerations, until they had given up their opposition, had most thankfully accepted his provisions, and were saved from death.
	www.gospeltruth.net /1836SOIS/10sois_election.htm (3992 words)

	WebRoots Library U.S. Ships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was such a feeling as this, from all accounts, which caused John Jacob Astor and his wife to refuse the places offered them in the first boat, and to retire to the gymnasium.
		Astor to the side of the ship and helped her to the life- boat to which she had been assigned.
		The early despatches from St. John's, Cape Race, and Montreal, told graphic tales of the race to reach the Titanic, the wireless appeals for help, the interruption of the calls, then what appeared to be a successful conclusion of the race when the Virginian was reported as having reached the giant liner.
	www.webroots.org /library/usaships/sottgsd2.html (10277 words)

	Autobiography of John Ball
		John Ball (1794-1884) was member of Nathaniel Wyeth's 1832 expedition to the Rockies and the Pacific Northwest.
		And the mill was under the superintendence of one of Astor's men who had remained in the country.
		The only trade to these parts seemed to be by vessels from the States with calico and the like to exchange for hides, their only product, the country being full of cattle, and vessels came in for that purpose while we were there.
	www.xmission.com /~drudy/mtman/html/jball.html (14701 words)

	Chronology : The Germans in America (European Reading Room, Library of Congress)
		1784 - John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) left his village of Waldorf in Germany and arrived in the United States in 1784 with $25 and seven flutes.
		He amassed a fortune from real estate dealings and the fur trade, and at his death was by far the richest man in the country, worth an estimated $20 million.
		In 1977 he was canonized as a saint by Pope Paul VI.
	www.loc.gov /rr/european/imde/germchro.html (1631 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
		4.2.1.1.4.4.Georgina Mary Astor (1952), m.1st 1973 (div 1979) Honourable Anthony Ramsay [of the earls of Dalhousie] (1949), m.2nd 1979 Thomas Lorne Nelson
	www.angelfire.com /in/heinbruins/Astor.html (3133 words)

	John Day Fossil Beds NM: Historic Resources Study (Bibliography)
		John Day Fossil Beds paleontologist Fremd and others prepared this informal, casual guide as an overview for participants in the Society's annual meeting in Seattle.
		This is the first edition of the narrative of Franchere, an employee of the Pacific Fur Company about his labors for John Jacob Astor in the Oregon country.
		John M. Drake's diary of 1864 is a chronicle of military frustration in the pursuit of Northern Paiute Indians in central and southeastern Oregon.
	www.nps.gov /joda/hrs/hrsb.htm (7432 words)

	Royal Family of Europe - pafg143 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		James W PAUL was born about 1827 in Of, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		Mary Frances BOWES-LYON [Parents] was born on 30 Mar 1883 in Fotheringham, co Forfar.
		John Alexander BULLER-FULLERTON-ELPHINSTONE was born on 22 Mar 1914.
	www.ishipress.com /royalfam/pafg143.htm (703 words)

	The List: Jackie and Nick Drexel
		Jacqueline Astor and John R. Drexel IV are the most direct ancestors of the original “Four Hundred.” Jackie’s great-grandmother was the Mrs.
		Astor is now part of American folklore: He went down on the Titanic in 1912 after making sure his young wife, who was carrying their unborn son (later Jackie’s father John Jacob Astor VI), was safely in a lifeboat.
		The first Drexels emigrated from Austria and settled in Philadelphia, where they went into banking.
	www.newyorksocialdiary.com /list/149.php (212 words)

	The Oneida Community Collection \|\| Syracuse University Library
		For more than sixty years the Library has been assembling data on social-religious movements of New York State during the nineteenth century as part of its collecting policy to include "local history"-with chief emphasis on the geographical region of Central New York within a radius of approximately fifty miles from Syracuse.
		Their papers cover a wide range of subject matter-land history of New York State, commercial and social relationships with the Indians, the trading post at Old Fort Schuyler (now Utica), abolition, and a multiplicity of reforms (temperance, vegetarianism, "free" churches, socialism, inter al.).
		Confessions of John H. Noyes Part I: confession of religious experience: including a history of modern perfectionism.
	libwww.syr.edu /digital/guides/o/OneidaCommunityCollection (775 words)

	Sea Scope Yacht Charters in Newport, RI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After their wedding at Beechwood in Newport, RI, the newlyweds departed for Ferncliff aboard their 262 foot steam yacht, Noma.
		It was on their return from a trip to Egypt in the spring of 1912 that John Jacob Astor IV died aboard the Titanic.
		Madeleine, who was pregnant with John Jacob Astor VI, survived.
	www.seascopenewport.com /fleet/fawan_main2.htm (194 words)

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