John Jacob Astor
Birthname John Jacob Astor IV Birthdate July 13, 1864 Birthplace Rhinebeck, New York Education Harvard University Net worth $121,000,000,000 Source of Wealth business Nationality American Country United States Marital Status Married Children 2John Jacob Astor was an American businessman, actual property builder, investor, inventor, and writer which had an estimated and adjusted for inflation net worth of $121 billion.
John Jacob Astor was once the creator behind A Journey in Other Worlds. The said novel is about the existence within the yr 2000 on planets Saturn and Jupiter and it used to be printed in 1894.
Aside from being a writer, he explored the world of inventions by which he did bicycle brake in 1898, a vibratory disintegrator, a pneumatic road-improver, and he expand a turbine engine.
In 1897, he constructed the luxurious Astoria Hotel in New York City. The said establishment adjoined his cousin's Waldorf Hotel is referred to now as Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
During the duration of 1894 to 1896, he worked because the team of workers of Governor Levi P. Morton. He financed the volunteer artillery unit referred to as the Astor Battery which it used in the Philippines.
He changed into the lieutenant colonel within the U.S. Volunteers. He additionally served as a body of workers in Cuba. He used to be entitled to the Spanish Campaign Medal.
John Jacob Astor IV used to be born on July 13, 1864 in Rhinebeck, New York. He studied at Harvard University. He had two children from his earlier marriage to socialite Ava Willing. He died boarding the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912.
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