Portrait photo c1898 of millionaire American businessman + Titanic victim John Jacob Astor IV (1864 -1912) in military uniform.
Portrait photo circa 1898 of millionaire American businessman and Titanic victim John Jacob Astor IV in military uniform. 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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