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    John Jacob Astor IV (July 13, 1864 – April 15, 1912) was an American business magnate, real estate developer, investor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the...
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    he was born in New York City on November 15, 1891. Astor was the elder child of John Jacob Astor IV, a wealthy businessman and inventor, and his first...
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  • Ferncliff Farm (category Astor family residences)
    as well as stables where he bred horses. In 1902, his son and heir John Jacob Astor IV commissioned Stanford White to design a large sports pavilion (called...
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    showplace for many of Mrs. Astor's dinner parties. When Mrs. Astor died in 1908, Beechwood was left to her son, John Jacob Astor IV, who married his second...
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    1859 by Federico Barreda. Subsequent owners of Beaulieu have included John Jacob Astor III, Cornelius Vanderbilt III, and his wife Grace Vanderbilt, née Grace...
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    as Dr. Otto Hasslein in Escape from the Planet of the Apes, and as John Jacob Astor IV in the 1997 film Titanic. He won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1998 for...
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  • J. Carter Brown and he married Mary Jacqueline "Jackie" Astor, a daughter of John Jacob Astor VI and, his second wife, Gertrude Gretsch, in 1984. Noreen...
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    Vincent Astor (1891–1959), son of Lt.-Col. John Jacob Astor IV and Ava Lowle Willing. The couple had known each other since they were children; the Astor family...
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    Astor (née Kane) Jay, and Sybil Kent Kane. He was a cousin of Lt. Col. John Jacob Astor IV. Woodbury entered Harvard College in the autumn of 1878; during...
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    (1876–1969). His paternal grandparents were James John Van Alen (1848–1923) and Emily Astor (1854–1881) of the Astor family. He graduated in 1924 from Christ's...
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    DeLancey Astor Kane, Commodore S. Nicholson Kane, and Rough Rider Woodbury Kane, all cousins of John Jacob Astor IV. In 1880, Jay was painted by John Singer...
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    Newport Casino (category Tennis venues in Rhode Island)
    of its type in the United States. Notable former members include: John Jacob Astor IV, American businessman Charles H. Baldwin, an officer in the United...
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    professional tennis player William H. Aspinwall(1807–1875) – railroad promoter John Jacob Astor III (1822–1890) – businessman, member of the Astor family John Jacob...
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  • I John Jacob Astor VI, socialite, heir to Astor family fortune, summer resident Admiral Jeremy Michael Boorda, 25th Chief of Naval Operations John Nicholas...
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    Astor, philanthropist, majority owner of Newsweek, member of the prominent Astor family John Jacob Astor V, philanthropist, owner of The Times John Jacob...
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    in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Built by John Jacob Astor IV, the hostelry was designed in 1901 and opened in 1906. Its location...
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    Vane Pennell (category Olympic real tennis players for Great Britain)
    won the gold medal in the men's doubles competition together with John Jacob Astor. In the men's singles event he lost his first match. He also competed...
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    WESTBURY DIES; Descend ant of Thorn as Emmet, Irish Patriot, and First John Jacob Astor, ,WAS A PORTRAIT PAINTER Yier Work Was Exhibited in a Gallery Here...
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    Caroline Astor Drayton (1880–1965), the daughter of Charlotte Augusta Astor (1858–1920), the eldest Sister of Titanic victim John Jacob Astor IV, and J...
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    ALEN WED; Assistant to Herald Tribune Editor Bride of Descendant of John Jacob Astor". The New York Times. 9 November 1948. Retrieved 18 September 2017...
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  • Eleonora Sears (category Pages using infobox tennis biography with tennishofid)
    She played tennis at a competition organized by Ava Lowle Willing, the wife of John Jacob Astor IV, and she attended the wedding of tennis champion Robert...
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    William Backhouse Astor Jr. and Caroline Webster Schermerhorn, leader of the "Four Hundred", and her brother was Colonel John Jacob Astor IV, richest passenger...
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    donations from prominent figures such as financiers John Jacob Astor IV and William Waldorf Astor, governor Levi P. Morton, banker J. P. Morgan, and businessman...
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  • Staphylococcus aureus David Astor (1912–2001), Editor, The Observer, 1948–1975 William Douglas-Home (1912–1992) Sir John Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet (1912–1992)...
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    multimillionaire Colonel John Jacob Astor IV and his 18-year-old pregnant wife Madeleine were returning to the United States for their child's birth. Astor was the wealthiest...
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  • James Todd as Sandy Comstock William Johnstone as John Jacob Astor IV Frances Bergen as Madeleine Astor Mae Marsh as Woman to whom Norman gives up his seat...
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    to depart DOGE - CBS News". www.cbsnews.com. Retrieved January 21, 2025. Astor, Maggie (February 22, 2023). "A Wealthy 'Anti-Woke' Activist Joins the 2024...
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  • industries John Jacob Astor – business magnate, merchant and investor and the first multi-millionaire in the United States John Jacob Astor IV – millionaire...
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    boat. Among the occupants was Madeleine Astor, the pregnant wife of the American millionaire John Jacob Astor. She had endured a long wait, shuttling...
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  • in a stormy sea near Santa Marinella, Italy, on September 16, 1911. John Jacob Astor IV (born 1864) drowned in the Titanic disaster in 1912. Benjamin Guggenheim...
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