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26 nov 2021 · Partager. Immigré d'Allemagne, John Jacob Astor voit en l'Amérique le lieu idéal pour faire fortune. Un rêve américain qui se réalisera pour ce fils de boucher, faisant de lui l'un des personnages emblématiques du XIXe siècle aux États-Unis. Il n'a que vingt ans lorsqu'il débarque aux États-Unis en 1783.
English: John Jacob Astor III (June 10, 1822 – February 22, 1890) was the elder son of William Backhouse Astor, Sr. and the wealthiest member of the Astor family in his generation. He was the founder of the English branch of the Astor family. Retrato de John Jacob Astor III, por Jacob Hart Lazarus, 1890. New York State Museum.
23 lug 2012 · John Jacob Astor. San Francisco Call August 27, 1911. John Jacob Astor was born July 17, 1763, in Walldorf, Germany (near Heidelberg). He came to the United States after the American Revolution and began trading furs, shipping them to Europe via New York. Business was good, and Astor was well on his way to making his fortune when he got a boost ...
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.
John Jacob Astor IV war ein Urenkel des aus Walldorf in der Kurpfalz stammenden Pelzhändlers Johann Jakob Astor (1763–1848), des Begründers der Astor-Familie. Er war der einzige Sohn des wohlhabenden Geschäftsmannes William Backhouse Astor, Jr. (1830–1892) und dessen Frau Caroline Webster Schermerhorn (1830–1908).
12 giu 2024 · Anna Youngman, The Fortune of John Jacob Astor: III, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 16, No. 8 (Oct., 1908), pp. 514-530
4 apr 2017 · John Jacob Astor was the wealthiest man in America in the early 19th century, and when he died in 1848 his fortune was estimated to be at least $20 million, an astounding sum for the time. Astor had arrived in America as a poor German immigrant, and his determination and business sense led him to eventually create a monopoly in the fur trade.
