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The Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor. by Elizabeth L. Gebhard, 1915 John Jacob Astor, young trader (Childhood of famous Americans) by Dorothy S Anderson, 1961 John Jacob Astor by Hubbard Elbert, 2010-10-01 Masters of Enterprise: Giants of American Business from John Jacob Astor and J.P. Morgan to Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey by H.W. Brands, 1999-06-07 Unemployment Insurance in Great Britain. A Critical Examination. by John Jacob] [Astor, 1925 The Problem of Germany. An Interim Report by a Chatham House Study Group. by John Jacob [Foreword] Astor, 1943-01-01 Is Unemployment Inevitable? by John Jacob et al Astor, 1924 The Book of Sport, Volumes I and II by Ruth; Belmont, O. H. P.; Ellis, Ralph; Cox, Irving; Astor, John Jacob Underhill, 1903-01-01 Racquets Players: Richard Harris, John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, Edmund Bury, Evan Noel, Vane Pennell, Henry Brougham, Henry Leaf 1763 Births: Joséphine de Beauharnais, John Jacob Astor, Charles Xiv John of Sweden, John Kinzie, János Batsányi, Claude Chappe, Franz Danzi Astoria, Oregon: John Jacob Astor, the Goonies, So Long, Astoria, Fort Astoria, Kkee, Kindergarten Cop, Tonquin, Astor Expedition, Fort Clatsop John Jacob Astor : Real People by Clara Ingram Judson, 1950 American Fur Traders: Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable, John Jacob Astor, Jedediah Smith, Olaf Swenson, Seth Kinman, John Johnston, Ewing Young Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, Being a Narrative of the Expedition Fitted Out By John Jacob Astor, to Establish the "Pacific Fur Company" with an Account of Some Indian Tribes on the Coast of the Pacific by Alexander Ross, 1849

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41. John Jacob Astor -- Microsoft Reader EBook -- EBookMall
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42. John Jacob Astor - Elbert Hubbard - EBooks
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43. Wiley :: John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire
    Wiley Society Lifestyle History US Biography john JacobAstor America's First Multimillionaire. Related Subjects,  
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44. WileyEurope :: John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire
    WileyEurope Society Lifestyle History US Biography JohnJacob astor America's First Multimillionaire. Related Subjects,  
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45. WileyEurope :: John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire
    john jacob astor America's First Multimillionaire Axel Madsen ISBN 0471-38503-4Hardcover 320 Pages February 2001 £20.95 / €33.40 Add to Cart.  
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46. Wiley Canada :: John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire
    Wiley Canada Society Lifestyle History US Biography JohnJacob astor America's First Multimillionaire. Related Subjects,  
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47. A Classification Of American Wealth : History And Genealogy Of The Wealthy Famil
    john jacob astor ( 17631848 ) , New York City, New York. Parents, JohannesJakob astor. john jacob astor II. Magdalen (astor) Bentzon Bristed (1788-1832).  
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48. John Jacob Astor And His American Fur Co
    john jacob astor, fur trader and millionaire New York City real estate owner, richestman in America. john jacob astor (17631848) the richest man in America.  
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    Extractions: Part 1 : Colonial and Mercantile America Part 2 : America in the Gilded Age Part 3 : America in the Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of American Wealth Info Site map Links ... american.wealth@raken.com Part I-Chapter 4 : New YorkCity Landlords John Jacob Astor « Previous Next » John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) : the richest man in America … John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) emigrated from his hometown Waldorf in Germany, when he was 18 years old and first joined his older brother George Peter Astor, who was dealing in musical instruments in London. Two years later John Jacob Astor set on to America, where he first reached Baltimore and then settled in New York, his ultimate goal. At this time his sole capital was 50 $ and seven flutes, he had brought from England to sell in the New World … … Astor never forgot to concentrate on his core business, the fur trade. In 1808, he founded the American Fur Company, a business enterprise that was set with an initial capital of 500'000 $, then a sizeable fortune. Astor's plan was the concentration of American fur trade under the umbrella of this company to counter the influence of the British-Canadian Hudson Bay Company, a well structured organization which dominated trade in Canada and the North-West of America … New Registration Dear visitor

49. Baltimore City Paper: John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire (April
    john jacob astor America's First Multimillionaire. john jacob astor America'sFirst Multimillionaire By Axel Madsen john Wiley Sons, 312 pages, $30  
    http://www.citypaper.com/2001-04-04/imprint3.html
    
    Extractions: INDEX NEWS+FEATURES Photo Feature The Nose The Mail Mobtown Beat ... Feature COLUMNS Funny Paper Think Mink Germ Bag Media Circus ... The Straight Dope ARTS+ENTERTAINMENT Dish The Short List In The Wings Dance ... Eats and Drinks Guide COMICS This Modern World The City The Cardboard Valise Ernie Pook's Comeek ... The PainWhen Will It End? SPECIAL ISSUES Eat Film Fest Frenzy Best of Baltimore Big Books Issue ... Big Music Issue ARCHIVES Author Archives Column Archives Cover Story Archives April 4 - April 10, 2001 John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire By Axel Madsen Review By Loren Glass John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me." That's the word from novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, America's most eloquent chronicler of the elegance and anguish of extreme wealth. Indeed, wealth is one of the deepest obsessions in the cultural imagination, and those who obtain it are major characters in the drama of U.S. history. Axel Madsen's new biography of John Jacob Astor, "America's first multimillionaire," is clearly designed to exploit this perennial national obsession, but instead it tempted me to read Fitzgerald's claim against the grain. What if the rich are different not so much in the glamorous romance of their hedonistic pleasure but in the pedestrian banality of their crass profiteering? What if men actually build fortunes out of a lack of personality? What if the rich are, in the end, boring?

50. Descendants Of John Jacob Astor And Sarah Todd
    Descendants of john jacob astor and Sarah Todd. With special thanksto Ronald Elward Last update on November 21st, 2002 john (Johann  
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51. John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire
    john jacob astor America's First Multimillionaire Madsen, Axel Publishedby EH.NET (August 2001) Axel Madsen, john jacob astor America's  
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    Extractions: Published by EH.NET (August 2001) Axel Madsen, John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire Reviewed for EH.NET by Ann Harper Fender, Department of Economics, Gettysburg College. Axel Madsen joins a long list of John Jacob Astor biographers. His bibliography contains more than a dozen histories of the self-made millionaire, his business activities, or his family. Astor family friend Washington Irving penned the first with the elderly tycoon's blessing and assistance: a chronicle of Astoria, the failed venture on the Pacific coast that was published in 1836 as Astoria: Adventure in the Pacific Northwest . Madsen relies heavily on these secondary sources, citing especially the journalist James Parton's 1865 Life of John Jacob Astor as a major source. What motivated Astor might be forever unknown; the economic historian can still wish for more details about his business transactions, gleaned from whatever business records remain. Madsen mentions that most of Astor's business papers were destroyed after his death, hinting that this might have been deliberate. He also refers to the business archives of the American Fur Company, however, as well as to business documents in various public libraries. Whether these can be mined for more insights into Astor's success is not clear. How Astor's descendants spent the fortune that John Jacob earned occupies the last portion of the book. The reader sometimes suspects that the author is more comfortable with the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries than with the eighteenth and early nineteenth. Madsen has written numerous biographies, focusing from such twentieth century business figures as Coco Chanel and William Durant to Hollywood stars such as Barbara Stanwyck, John Huston, and Billy Wilder. In the Astor biography, the text several times gives a date such as 1911 when 1811 clearly is intended, perhaps an unintentional looking ahead to the society page antics of future Astors. An economic historian wonders what comparisons Madsen could make between Astor and the other business tycoons about whom he has written. Or between young companies operating, albeit loosely, under the laws of the U.S. and those operating under British royal charters.

52. JosseyBass :: John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire
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53. JosseyBass :: John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire
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54. John Jacob Astor
    john jacob astor. astor, john jacob, merchant, born in Walddorf, nearHeidelberg, Germany, 17 July 1768; died in New York, 29 March 1848.  
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    Extractions: Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. 6 vols. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889 was the "most-quoted" biographical source for 19th and early 20th America. Appleton's, due to its age, reflects the bias and prejudice of late 19th Century America. It is also estimated that 100 to 200 of the 35,000 biographies are entirely fictitious. Additionally, the OCR technology used to transfer the text to the web was, at best, only a 99% accurate. We rely on volunteers to edit and update these historic biographies on a continual basis. If you are interested in editing and updating this biography please Click Here Virtual American Biographies Over 30,000 personalities with thousands of 19th Century illustrations, signatures, and exceptional life stories. Virtualology.com welcomes editing and additions to the biographies. To become this site's editor or a contributor Click Here or e-mail Virtualology here A B C ... Z

55. Astor, John Jacob
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57. DeepChip: ESNUG Post 0252: >"The Late John Jacob Astor, A Personage Little Given
    ESNUG. The late john jacob astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to be prudence; my  
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58. John Jacob Astor And The Fur Trade: Testing The Role Of Government
    john jacob astor and the Fur Trade Testing the Role of Government. BurtonW. Folsom, Jr. john jacob astor RiskTaker and World Trader.  
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    Extractions: Government What was the first industry in U.S. history to receive a federal subsidy? That dubious honor seems to go to the fur trade. If we study the story of the fur trade, we can see why government-supported companies so often fail and why entrepreneurs tend to provide better products at lower costs. The buying and selling of furs was a major industry in America throughout its early history. The key animal in the fur trade was the beaver, whose pelt made hats that were in style all over Europe in the 1700s. The fur trade was a worldwide enterprise. It linked fashionable women in Paris to New York exporters, to frontier traders, to Indian trappers. The pelts of beavers, muskrats, otters, and minks went one way and kettles, blankets, axes, and muskets went the other. At first, fur trading in the United States followed established patterns. The French and British had traded with the Indians for more than a century and the Americans simply picked up where they left off. Trapping methods, river routes, and trading posts were all in place.

59. John Jacob Astor America's First Multimillionaire EBook
    A riveting biography of john jacob astor, the first American multinationalentrepreneur. Title john jacob astor America's First Multimillionaire.  
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60. John Jacob Astor Bibliography
    A bibliography of john jacob astor's books and short stories, with book coversand links to related authors. john jacob astor (1864 1912). Search Authors.  
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