Vintage photo c1909 of millionaire American businessman + Titanic victim John Jacob Astor IV (1864 - 1912).
Vintage photo circa 1909 of millionaire American businessman and Titanic victim John Jacob Astor IV leaning out of a train window. Astor (1864 - 1912), a member of the prominent Astor family, was a real estate developer who built the Astoria Hotel in New York City in 1897. He was also a writer and inventor and was Lieutenant Colonel of a US volunteers battalion during the Spanish-American War of 1898. Astor famously died in the RMS Titanic disaster in April 1912 - the wealthiest victim of more than 1500 people killed when the ship sank after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. Photo by Bain News Service.
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