Tall, lean and mustachioed John Jacob Astor IV wanted to accompany her in Lifeboat 4, but his apogeal social status and ...
The timepiece belonged to John Jacob Astor IV, a New York business magnate and real estate developer, and was expected to sell for about $189,000 at auction, according to auction house Henry ...
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John Jacob Astor IV went down with the Titanic, but his Stanford White-designed estate in Rhinebeck, New York survives him. Stanford White's great-grandson Sam White has fully restored the place.
Tall, lean and mustachioed John Jacob Astor IV wanted to accompany her in Lifeboat 4, but his apogeal social status and family fortune — born of the fur trade, then turbocharged by New York real ...