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The Controversial History Of The Astor Family, One Of America’s Most Prominent Dynasties
The story of the Astor family is one of immense fortune, ambition, tragedy, and scandal. It all began with John Jacob Astor, ...
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The Shocking Story Of John Jacob Astor IV, The Multimillionaire Who Went Down With The Titanic
John Jacob Astor IV was thus born into the upper echelons of New York society, and benefited greatly from it. Astor attended elite schools, including Harvard, and later continued the family ...
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how did john astor become rich/?
Today, the amount is $21 billion. But it was John Jacob Astor IV, a member of the renowned Astor family, who was best known. There are 87 million dollars in his net worth. In our day, Astor's fortune ...
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Clark County history: Fort Vancouver’s first farm
The arrival of European settlers to the Columbia River brought the establishment of vegetable gardens and farms. A year before John Jacob Astor built Fort Astoria in Oregon, Nathan Winship sailed up t ...