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William Backhouse Astor, Sr. (Nova Iorque, 19 de setembro de 1792 – Nova Iorque, 24 de novembro de 1875) foi um empresário americano do setor imobiliário e proeminente membro da família Astor.
William Backhouse Astor Sr. (September 19, 1792 – November 24, 1875) was an American business magnate who inherited most of his father John Jacob Astor's fortune. He worked as a partner in his father's successful export business.
William Backhouse Astor Jr. (July 12, 1829 – April 25, 1892) was an American businessman, racehorse owner/breeder, and yachtsman who was a member of the prominent Astor family. His elder brother, financier and philanthropist John Jacob Astor III, became head of the British line of Astors in the United Kingdom.
William Waldorf Astor III, 4th Viscount Astor (born 27 December 1951) is an English businessman and politician who sits as a Conservative hereditary Lord Temporal in the House of Lords. He is a member of the Astor family , which is known for its prominence in business, society, and politics in both the United States and the United Kingdom .
Brief Life History of William Backhouse. 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.
John Jacob Astor (1763–1848) was the founder of the family fortune. His son, William Backhouse Astor (1792–1875), who inherited the major portion of the estate, continued his father’s program of investing in Manhattan real estate and greatly expanded the Astor Library.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
His son, William Backhouse Astor (1792–1875), greatly expanded the family real-estate holdings, building more than 700 stores and dwellings in New York City. The wealthiest person in the U.S. at the time of his death, the senior Astor bequeathed \$400,000 for the founding of a public library,…
