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3 giorni fa · Disenchanted with New York City, Waldorf moved to England. Ultimately, he was able to basically buy his way to a peerage, becoming Viscount Astor. That title lives on today. William Jr had a son named, you guessed it, John Jacob Astor IV. Known as Jack, he is most famous for dying on the Titanic. Before he died, he had a child named Vincent Astor.
5 giorni fa · William Waldorf "Bill" Astor II, 3rd Viscount Astor (13 August 1907 – 7 March 1966) was an English businessman and Conservative Party politician. He was also a member of the Astor family. Background and education. William was the eldest son of Waldorf Astor and Nancy Witcher Langhorne. He was educated at Eton and at New College ...
1 giorno fa · The Andrews family were wealthy business magnates – Thomas's uncle was Viscount Pirrie, chairman of Harland & Wolff, the builders of the Titanic. ... William Backhouse Astor Jr., in 1881.
5 giorni fa · It passed to Astor’s son from his first marriage, William Vincent Astor. Preferring his estate out on Long Island , William sold the 65th Street property to developers and auctioned off...
5 giorni fa · While it is the least well-maintained of the surviving Astor buildings, a memento of its high-society origins remains: high above the neglected grounds, the monogram of William Waldorf Astor,...
5 giorni fa · After William Astor's death, the site passed first to his widow Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, then to their son John Jacob Astor IV. [12] John Jacob Astor IV was a co-owner of the original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street; his great-grandfather John Jacob Astor had built one of the first modern hotels in the world, the Astor House in Lower Manhattan, in 1836. [13]
5 giorni fa · The historic Astor Row in Harlem dates back to land purchased by John Jacob Astor in 1844 for the sum of $10,000 on what is now 130th Street between Lenox Avenue and Fifth Avenue in Harlem. It ...
