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Q's WWI trip and Titanic post #142...
William Vincent Astor
>staff officer in the Navy during both World Wars
>Heir to the fortune of John Jacob Astor IV, who died on the Titanic.
Astor, John Jacob, 6th 1912-1992
>He never saw his father, who died when the RMS Titanic sank on April 15, 1912. His parents had married on September 9, 1911 and were returning home aboard the ship after about three months honeymooning in Egypt and Europe. Madeleine Astor was five months pregnant when her husband put her in one of Titanic's lifeboats and she was rescued eight hours after her husband went down with the ship.
Astor, John Jacob, 4th 1864-1912
>Inventor. Made millions in real estate and in 1897, Astor built the Astoria Hotel which adjoined Astor’s cousin, William Waldorf Astor's, Waldorf Hotel in New York City, the complex became known as the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War. Died on the Titanic in 1912. $87 million fortune at the time of his death.
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