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| | Colonel John Jacob Astor |
 | | Astor stood back and just asked Lightoller which boat it was. | | | In 1897 Astor built the Astoria Hotel, New York adjoining the Waldorf Hotel which had been built by William Waldorf Astor, his cousin. | | | Even as the boats were loaded Astor appeared unperturbed, he ridiculed the idea of trading the solid decks of the Titanic for a small lifeboat 'we are safer here than in that little boat'. |
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| | New York Architecture Images- The Waldorf Astoria |
| | Astor had begun contemplating her move from 350 Fifth Avenue at the very onset of plans for the Waldorf Hotel in 1890. | | | When William Waldorf moved to England in 1891 (two years prior to the grand opening of his hotel), Caroline’s son, John Jacob Astor IV, became the titular head of the Astor family, and plans for the building of a second hotel became official. | | | In 1890 William Waldorf Astor decided to raze the family mansion on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 33rd Street and commissioned Henry J. Hardenbergh to build the largest, most luxurious hotel in the world. |
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| | Urban Legends Reference Pages: Glurge Gallery (Boldt Action) |
| | Astor IV built the Astoria next door in 1897, the two hotels were run jointly as the Waldorf-Astoria) until it was closed on | | | A new Waldorf-Astoria was constructed on the block extending from Park Avenue to Lexington, between Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Streets and opened in 1931. | | | Astor enjoyed visiting hotels and "wanted to outshine them all" by building the grandest one yet. |
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| | St. Regis Hotel and Resort history at Starwood |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | The first hotel to join the New York flagship was St. Regis Hotel, Washington, D.C. (the former Carlton Hotel), followed closely by St. Regis Resort, Aspen (the former Ritz-Carlton) in early 1999. |
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| | The Astor Bloodline |
| | It is described as ‘the ultimate in snob appeal.’ Later two Astor cousins built the Astoria (another even taller elite Hotel) in New York which opened in 1897. | | | William Waldorf Astor owned the Pall Mall Gazette, the Observer, and the Pall Mall Magazine. | | | However, Astor’s connivance to create a nation on the west coast wasn’t. |
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http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/the_astor_bloodline.htm
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| | The Astors: Overview |
| | In 1977 the Astors sold the ailing Observer to US oil giant Atlantic Richfield, which flogged it in 1981 to the unsavoury Lonrho under 'Tiny' Rowland. | | | Vincent accelerated the family's move out of slum property. | | | The Gazette and its offshoot the Pall Mall Magazine also featured reviews and journalism by George Bernard Shaw, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Huxley, Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker. |
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| | Where the Newport Mansions Come to Life! - Astors' Beechwood Mansion, Newport RI |
| | Roarin' 20's Tours offer guests a chance to visit with Vincent Astor and friends during this fun time in Newport's history. | | | Imagine your Newport Wedding in our elegant and spacious mansion, featuring our sparkling ballroom inspired by the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles. | | | Now open Wednesdays - Sundays for guided tours. |
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| | John Jacob Astor IV, RMS Titanic - Astors' Beechwood Mansion, Newport RI |
| | 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. | | | By 1810, John Jacob Astor was worth two million dollars. | | | When the government asked its wealthiest citizens to help fund the War of 1812, he did his part - clearly to his advantage, paying only eighty-eight cents on the dollar for two million dollars' worth of government bonds. |
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| | John Jacob Astor IV - definition of John Jacob Astor IV in Encyclopedia |
| | In 1897, he built the Astoria Hotel adjoining the Waldorf Hotel that had been built by his cousin, William Waldorf Astor (1848-1918), and the complex then became known as the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel. | | | His body, which was badly crushed, was recovered on Monday, April 22nd by the cable ship McKay-Bennett. | | | John Jacob Astor IV (July 13, 1864 - April 15, 1912) was a businessman, inventor, and writer and a member of the prominent Astor family. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/John_Jacob_Astor_IV
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| | Find Astor at myEweb.com |
| | Astor Florida vacation destination on the St. Johns River in Central... | | | Sort hotels by price, distance, star rating, and amenities. | | | Astor Florida is located north of Orlando between Silver Springs and Daytona Beach on Hwy. |
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| | Class and Leisure at America's First Resort: Newport, Rhode Island, 1870-1914 |
| | He preferred the company of other businessmen at local clubs; sailing on the family yacht, Ambassadress; or horseback riding at Ferncliff, his estate in the Hudson River Valley. | | | They hired architect Richard Morris Hunt to oversee a $2 million renovation project. | | | Astor and his younger brother, John Jacob Astor III, were heirs to the family fortune. |
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| | John Jacob Astor IV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Astor made millions in real estate and in 1897, Astor built the Astoria Hotel which adjoined Astor’s cousin, William Waldorf Astor's, Waldorf Hotel in New York City, the complex became known as the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. | | | Serving as a lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War, Astor mainly dealt in real estate which included the original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. | | | William Johnstone played Astor in the 1953 film Titanic and in the 1997 Titanic he was played by Eric Braeden, who was picked for his strong resemblance to Astor. |
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| | Hospitality |
| | March 21, 1904 - The St. Francis Hotel opened in San Francisco; built by family of Charles Crocker for $2.5 million; 1938 - operated the world’s only silver coin cleaning operation as a favor to its guests to keep ladies’ white gloves from getting dirty. | | | on Park Avenue at 51st St.; named after Astor family's hometown in Germany; 1949 - purchased by Hilton. | | | Without Reservations: From Harlem to the End of the Santa Fe Trail. |
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| | John Jacob Astor VI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | However, it is reported that their son received three million dollars at the age of maturity. | | | John Jacob Astor VI died in Miami Beach, Florida at the age of 79. | | | Born in New York City, he was the son of John Jacob Astor IV (1864-1912) and Madeleine Talmadge Force (1893-1940). |
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| | 2000 Newport Vintage Dance Week |
| | In 1911 he remarried a much younger woman named Madeleine Talmadge Force; their ceremony was held in the ballroom of Beechwood. | | | His French style design for the house was based on the Petit Trianon at Versailles, and was very unique for the area. | | | 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. |
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| | ASTOR, JOHN JACOB (176... - Online Information article about ASTOR, JOHN JACOB (176... |
| | gift of $50,000 to found an institution, opened as the " Astor House " in 1854, for the See also: | | | City, and erected many buildings there, including the hotel known. | | | building for the Astor library was erected, and to the library he gave about $550,000, including a bequest of $200,000. |
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| | Treachery on the Titanic |
| | He then stood alone on the boat deck. | | | After Titanic struck the iceberg the Astors waited in the gymnasium while women and children were loaded into the lifeboats. | | | Colonel John Jacob Astor IV John Jacob Astor was 47 years old. |
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| | John Jacob Astor - definition of John Jacob Astor by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | John Jacob Astor, relative to that portion of our country, and to the adventurous traders to Santa Fe and the Columbia. | | | 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, 3rd Baron Astor of Hever |
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| | John Jacob Astor IV |
| | He also built the Knickerbocker and the St. Regis hotels. | | | 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. |
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| | Northwest News Release |
| | While a student, Kirchhoff also wrote and directed two original works, Lives on Hiatus and a touring children's show, The Imagination Station. | | | 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. | | | Beechwood, the name of the mansion, now is owned by Carolyn Astor and, in addition to the daily living history performances, is the site of other theatrical offerings. |
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| | The Astors: History |
| | 1893 William Waldorf Astor moves to UK 1893 buys Pall Mall Gazette | | | 1933 Vincent Astor and W Averill Harriman launch Today magazine in New York | | | 1922 son John Jacob Astor buys London Times from Northcliffe estate |
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| | Astor family: Encyclopedia topic |
| | 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. | | | Beyond the famous hotels, the Astor family name is imprinted in a great deal of United States history and geography. | | | 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. |
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| | John Jacob Astor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The American Fur Company once again came to dominate trading in the area around the Great Lakes. | | | 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. | | | Astor began subdividing the land into nearly 250 lots and subleased them. |
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| | WowEssays.com - The Effects Of The Titanic |
| | 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. | | | 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. |
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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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| | Astor's Beechwood Mansion Boston Central |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | Today, this privately owned mansion is host to weddings, private celebrations, Victorian Balls, and other special events by night and home to a Victorian Living History Museum by day. |
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| | John Jacob Astor IV: Science Fiction Inventions |
| | John Jacob Astor dreamed of electric cars that would serve us in 1894; all he needed was a really good battery technology. | | | 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. | | | Total Environmental and Mental Simulator - accelerated machine intelligence |
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| | S q u e a k y p o n y l a n d - December 29, 2000 |
| | While there's tons of information on the Astor family, the only information I've been able to find on "Mrs. | | | 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. | | | Unfortunately, I didn't find the one piece information I was looking for... |
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| | Royal Family of Europe - pafg144 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File |
| | This part of the Astor fortune ended in a philanthropic foundation and the family is no longer among the wealthiest in America. | | | William ASTOR [Parents] was born in 1830 in New York, New York. | | | Charlotte GIBBS was born about 1870 in New York. |
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| | thePeerage.com - Person Page 12667 |
| | He lived in 840 Fifth Avenue, New York City, New York, U.S.A. He was the inventor of a pneumatic device for improving road surfaces, as well as the Astor bicycle brake, an improved turbine and an accumulator battery. | | | was educated in Columbia University, New York City, New York, U.S.A. He lived in Ferncliff, Duchess County, New York, U.S.A. He lived in 350 Fifth Avenue, New York City, New York, U.S.A. Children of William Backhouse Astor, Jr. | | | Child of Lt.-Col. John Jacob Astor IV and Madeleine Talmadge Force |
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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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| | Picture History - John Jacob Astor IV (1864-1912) |
| | Astor invented several mechanical devices, including a bicycle brake. | | | 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. |
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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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| | ZoomInfo Web Summary: John Astor |
| | 1811 Astor's Pacific Fur Company establishes Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River. | | | 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. | | | 1808 John Jacob Astor forms the American Fur Company to compete with the North West Company of Canada in the northern Plains. |
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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. | | | 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. |
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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. | | | The updated page can be found at: brooke astor | | | was born Roberta Brooke Russell in Portsmouth (Portsmouth: A port city in southern England on the English Channel; Britain's major naval base), New Hampshire (New Hampshire: A state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies), the daughter of John Henry Russell (John Henry Russell: john henry russell (1872 - 1947) was a u.s. |
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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. | | | Old Marine Engine: John Jacob Astor IV launch | | | Enter your username and password if you have an account. |
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| | John Jacob Astor IV (Ava Lowle Willing Astor), posed in dressing gown(?), facing front. |
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