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John Jacob Astor (merchant)
John Jacob Astor , 1763-1848, American merchant, b. Walldorf, near Heidelberg, Germany. At the age of 16 he went to England, and five years later, in 1784, he arrived in Baltimore, penniless. He later went to New York City, where in a few years he entered into business with a small shop for trade in... Read more |
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William Backhouse Astor
William Backhouse Astor 1792-1875, American financier, b. New York City; son of John Jacob Astor (1763-1848). Educated in Germany, he was associated with his father in business after 1818. Later called the landlord of New York, he also inherited money from his uncle Henry Astor and left an... Read more |
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John E. Jacob
John E. Jacob 1934 Read more |
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John Jacob Abel
John Jacob Abel 1857-1938, American pharmacologist, b. Cleveland, grad. Univ. of Michigan, 1883, M.D. Univ. of Strasbourg, 1888. Professor of pharmacology (1893-1932) and director of the laboratory for endocrine research (from 1932) at Johns Hopkins, he is known for the isolation of epinephrine... Read more |
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Jacob Bigelow
Jacob Bigelow (1787-1879) Source P HYSICIAN AND BOTANIST Early Life.Jacob Bigelow was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1787, the son of a Harvard graduate who was a Congregational minister and a farmer. Educated in a country grammar school until age... Read more |
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Jacob Tonson
Jacob Tonson , 1656?-1736, English publisher. He and his brother Richard purchased the publication rights to Milton's Paradise Lost, a transaction later claimed as the firm's most profitable. With John Dryden he published a series of miscellany volumes (6 vol., 1684-1709), edited by Dryden and... Read more |
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Harriet Jacobs
Harriet A. Jacobs Harriet A. Jacobs (1823-1897) was a slave who decided she must run away in order to protect her children from harsh treatment by their owners. Delilah Horniblow was a slave to Margaret Horniblow in the town of Edenton, North Carolina, just as Delilah's mother, Molly, had... Read more |
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Jacob Young
Jacob YoungGuitarist, composer Jacob Young's prowess on electric and acoustic guitar, as well as his affiliation with the ECM label, has garnered critical comparisons to such contemporary American jazz guitarists as Jim Hall, John Abercrombie, and Pat Metheny. Like his predecessors, Young has... Read more |
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James Parton
James Parton 1822-91, American biographer, b. England. He came to the United States in 1827. In 1848 he joined the staff of N. P. Willis's Home Journal in New York City. His biographical writing began with the very successful Life of Horace Greeley (1855) and was followed by biographies of... Read more |
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Fitz-Greene Halleck
Fitz-Greene Halleck , 1790-1867, American poet, b. Guilford, Conn. He was joint author, with Joseph Rodman Drake, of the humorous lampoons "Croaker Papers," most of which were printed in the New York Evening Post in 1819. In the same year he published his long satire, Fanny (1819), in the... Read more |
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Astor, John Jacob
Astor, John Jacob (1763–1848), fur trader, real‐estate developer, financier...Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains, ed. Richard Dilworth, 1976. John D. Haeger , John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the ... |
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Astoria
...Lewis and Clark expedition. In 1811 John Jacob Astor founded a fur trading post at the site, but during the War of 1812 the Astor interests were sold to the British...revised 1849) is a history of Astor's fur trade in the Northwest... |
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American Fur Company
...American Fur Company First US business monopoly, owned by John Jacob Astor. John Jay's Treaty of 1794 permitted US fur trading in...of 1812 the USA was unable to defend Astoria, and Astor was forced to sell out to the North West Company... |
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Washington
...the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1805) and the establishment (1811) of an American Fur Company trading post by John Jacob Astor. From 1821 to 1846, the Hudson's Bay Company administered the region. In 1846, a treaty with the British fixed... |
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Adventures of Captain Bonneville, The
...western slopes of the Rockies in 1832–35. Irving, at work on his novel Astoria, met Bonneville at the home of John Jacob Astor, bought the explorer's papers and maps, and then shaped his story as a kind of sequel to Astoria. |
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Business
...boiler from Ireland, founded Procter and Gamble, which became the world's largest consumer‐products company. John Jacob Astor, a poor immigrant from Germany, amassed a vast fortune in the fur trade, transoceanic commerce, and New York City... |
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Northwest
...claimed for the U.S. in 1792, and the Lewis and Clark expedition, as well as the fur‐trading activities of John Jacob Astor, further established U.S. interests in the Northwest, later the cause of the Oregon Question, which was not... |
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Parton, James
...subjects were Aaron Burr (1857), Andrew Jackson (3 vols. 1859–60), Benjamin Franklin (2 vols., 1864), John Jacob Astor (1865), Jefferson (1874), and Voltaire (2 vols., 1881). In addition to these works, which remain excellent... |
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Fur Trade
...pelts for alcohol, firearms, metal tools, and other manufactured goods. The most powerful of these enterprises, John Jacob Astor's New York–based American Fur Company (1808–1865), featured several regional divisions and field offices... |
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Astor, John Jacob
Astor, John Jacob (1763–1848) US fur trader and financier. He entered the American fur trade and by 1800 had established the beginnings of... |
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John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire
John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire. By Axel Madsen. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001. 304 pp. Notes...difficult to write a bad biography of John Jacob Astor. His life contained all the aspects ... |
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Guy St. Clair captures John Jacob Astor Award.
...Clair has been nominated for the John Jacob Astor Award in Library Studies and...The eponym for this award, John Jacob Astor, was born on July 17, 1763...Since the 240th birthday of John ... |
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Electro-Nucleonics Inc. announces John Jacob Astor nomination for election as...
...ENUC), announced today that Lord John Jacob Astor of Hever will be nominated for...be held Dec. 11, 1984. Lord Astor, a member of the British House...businessman, is a direct descendant of John Jacob Astor, ... |
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Narrator of "Bartleby": The Christian-Humanist Acquaintance of John Jacob...
...references to Trinity Church, his pride of association with John Jacob Astor, his reading of works by Edwards and Priestly, his...s having been "not unemployed . . . by the late John Jacob Astor"(636)--makes this a story ... |
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A Titanic survivor's tale For years, family lore credited his rescue to Mrs....
...was pulled into a lifeboat by Mrs. John Jacob Astor and, in gratitude, worked for her...said she doesn't know how Mrs. Astor got into the family story, but it...15," Pearson-Kotz said. Mrs. Astor was on Lifeboat 4. "People have... |
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Six tycoons; the lives of John Jacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew...
9781904905844 Six tycoons; the lives of John Jacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford and Joseph P. Kennedy. Derbyshire, Wyn. Spiramus Press... |
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Quote by Astor, John Jacob on Wealth.(Quotation)
QUOTE: "A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich." --Astor, John Jacob SUBJECT: Wealth |
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New York Socialite Astor Dies at 105
...great-great-grandfather, John Jacob Astor, made a fortune in fur trading...Vincent Astor, the eldest son of John Jacob Astor 4th, who died in the sinking...I'm afraid that, to old John ... |
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Brooke Astor, 104, 'left by her son to live in squalor'.
...when her third husband Vincent Astor died in 1959. The money was bequeathed to him by his father John Jacob Astor IV, who drowned in the sinking...according to court papers. John Jacob was the first Astor to ... |
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NY Socialite Brooke Astor Dies at 105
...in the family ever since Vincent Astor's great-great-grandfather, John Jacob Astor, made a fortune in fur trading...Vincent Astor, the eldest son of John Jacob Astor 4th, who died in the ... |
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