As soon as he realized that the Titanic had struck an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912, John Jacob Astor IV sprung into ...
John Jacob Astor, millionaire Millionaire John Jacob Astor had booked a ... But it was John Jacob Astor IV, a member of the renowned Astor family, who was best known. There are 87 million dollars in ...
Financier John Jacob Astor ... called upon the millionaire, told him of the city by the sea founded by his grandfather of precisely the same name as himself. He suggested (Astor) fund or endow ...
John Jacob Astor IV made his money on slums built on the ... As well as Astor, fellow millionaire passengers Isador Strauss and Benjamin Guggenheim were unable to get a place on the lifeboats ...