In that capacity he helped look after many legal details connected with the huge real estate holdings of Vincent’s father, John Jacob Astor. In 1912 Vincent was at Harvard—where Franklin ...

20s-30s): Plays KATE MULLINS (Irish 3rd class passenger), MADELEINE ASTOR (American 1st class passenger, socialite, and wife of real estate magnate John Jacob Astor IV), and a STEWARDESS Track 20 ...

Millionaire John Jacob Astor, age 47, whose family built the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City and whose worth at the time was more than $2.2 billion in today’s dollars, was aboard the ship.

Among the victims was one of the world's richest men, John Jacob Astor. As a new luxury ocean ... a fictional story in 1886 that resembled the real-life events of the Titanic in unsettling ways.

Some of the wealthiest people in the world were on board, including property tycoon John Jacob Astor IV, great grandson of John Jacob Astor, founder of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Millionaire ...