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30 de abr. de 2024 · 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, the Astor Library, in New York City ...
Há 2 dias · The Mrs. William B. Astor House Back in 1854, William Backhouse Astor Jr. gifted his wife Caroline Astor a parcel of land at 34th Street and 5th Avenue, on which one of the first...
Há 1 dia · William Backhouse Astor, Sr. (1792–1875) – businessman, member of the Astor family William Backhouse Astor Jr. (1829–1892) – businessman, racehorse owner, and yachtsman, member of the Astor family
Há 2 dias · His friends included Friedrich Gotthilf Osann, Karl Witte, Christian Charles Josias von Bunsen, and William Backhouse Astor Sr.: 151 He arrived at the newly founded University of Berlin for the winter semester of 1811–12.
23 de abr. de 2024 · Her marriage to William Astor, son of William Backhouse Astor and grandson of John Jacob Astor, in September 1853 united her fortune with an even greater one. Her social career was unremarkable until the late 1860s, when the social and political turmoil of a rapidly expanding and industrializing economy threw up numbers of nouveaux ...
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13 de abr. de 2024 · The story starts in 1763 with the birth of Johann Jakob Astor in the small town of Waldorf (now spelled 'Walldorf'), which is located in the modern-day German state of Baden-Württemberg.
Há 5 dias · In 1853 Caroline married William Backhouse Astor, Jr., linking one of New York’s most prominent families to one of its wealthiest. Caroline would spend the next several decades trying to...
