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March 19, 1848 (84 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
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Born in 1763
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John Jacob Astor
John Jacob Astor is a German-American businessman, businessman, real estate mogul and investor who made his fortune primarily through the fur trade monopoly by smuggling opium into China and investing in real estate in or around New York. He is known as the first multimillionaire businessman in the United States. Born in Germany, Astor immigrated to England as a teenager and worked as an instrument producer. He moved to the United States after the American War of Independence. Noticing the expansion of the population westward, he entered the fur trade and built monopolies, leading a trading empire that extended to the Great Lakes and Canada, then extended to the states of western China and to the Pacific coast. Noticing a drop in demand due to changing European tastes, he left the fur trade in 1830, diversifying by investing in real estate in New York. Astor was very wealthy and became a famous patron of the arts.
BornJohann Jakob Astor, July 17, 1763, Walldorf, Electoral Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire
DiedMarch 29, 1848, New York City, New York, U.S.
Resting placeTrinity Church Cemetery
NationalityGerman, American
OccupationMerchant, businessman, investor, fur trader, drug smuggler
Known forFirst multi-millionaire businessman in the United States
Net worth$20 million, an estimated U.S. $659 million in 2021 dollars
ChildrenMagdalena Astor Bentzon Bristed, Sarah Todd Astor, John Jacob Astor Jr, William Backhouse Astor Sr, Dorothea Astor Langdon, Henry Astor II, Eliza Astor, Countess von Rumpf, unnamed stillborn son
Parent(s)Johann Jacob Astor, Maria Magdalena Vorfelder
RelativesSee Astor family

About John Jacob Astor

John Jacob Astor
John Jacob Astor

Entrepreneur John Jacob Astor was born in Walldorf, Germany on July 17, 1763. He dies at the age of 84, on March 19, 1848.

Businessman and investor who became the first American multimillionaire after creating a monopoly in the fur trading industry.

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John Jacob Astor before becoming famous

John Jacob Astor was born in the Zodiac sign Cancer (The Crab), and 1763 is also the year of Goat (羊) in the Chinese Zodiac.

His first profession was as a dairy salesman for his father.

Achievement of John Jacob Astor

Around the period of the Revolutionary War, he started smuggling opium.

John Jacob Astor's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He only had one sibling. He married Sarah Cox Todd and had eight children with her.

John Jacob Astor Collabed with

Aar sold him a lease on Manhattan Island.

John Jacob Astor Income & Net worth

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