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Object Details Artist Harper Pennington, 1854 - 1920 Copy after Raymond Madrazo, 1841 - 1920 Sitter John Jacob Astor, 10 Jun 1822 - 22 Feb 1890 Credit Line
When William Backhouse Astor III was born on 19 July 1935, in New York City, New York, United States, his father, John Jacob Astor VI, was 22 and his mother, Ellen Tuck French, was 19. He married Charlotte Anne Fisk on 23 June 1956, in Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter.
4 de abr. de 2023 · July 17, 1763–March 29, 1848. John Jacob Astor was a German immigrant who came to America and became the wealthiest man in the nation. He was a shrewd, successful businessman, and was primarily involved in real estate and the fur trade. His involvement in the Oregon Territory contributed to America’s fulfillment of Manifest Destiny.
1 de jun. de 2023 · John Jacob Astor IV’s mother was Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, who had married William Backhouse Astor Jr. (the son of John Jacob Astor III and the grandson of the original John Jacob Astor). John Jacob Astor built his family’s wealth as a successful exporter for a Canadian fur company, amassing a fortune of over $250,000 by the late 1790s.
Astor family, wealthy American family whose fortune, rooted in the fur trade, came to be centred on real estate investments in New York City. John Jacob Astor, detail of an oil painting by Gilbert Stuart, 1794; in the Brook Club, New York. John Jacob Astor (1763–1848) was the founder of the family fortune.
THE FORTUNE OF JOHN JACOB ASTOR. III. CONCLUSION. Even superficial studies of the business career of John Jacob Astor emphasize its supposedly dualistic nature, and distinguish between the apparently sharply defined aspects of fortune-getting for which it stands. In fact, Astor's trading operations are fre- quently discussed as if they had not ...
24 de ago. de 2020 · Astor erected a brick dwelling at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, apparently for rental purposes. The Astor family continued to live on elegant Lafayette Street. William's son, John Jacob Astor III, married Charlotte Augusta Gibbes in 1847. Described as a "Southern belle" by newspapers, she was the daughter of Thomas Stanyarne ...
