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3 unusual facts about John Jacob Astor IV


Alexander Saunderson

In 1947, Saunderson's great-grandson, also named Alexander, married Louise Astor Van Alen, granddaughter of James John Van Alen and grandniece of RMS Titanic victim John Jacob Astor IV, and the ex-wife of two different Georgian Mdivani princes.

Annals of the Twenty-Ninth Century

Blair's work is one of a group of early science fiction novels that are now little known, but were influential in their own time — a group that includes Edward Maitland's By and By (1873), Percy Greg's Across the Zodiac (1880), and John Jacob Astor IV's A Journey in Other Worlds (1894).

Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale

Lord Ribblesdale married secondly Ava Lowle Willing, daughter of Edward Shippen Willing and former wife of John Jacob Astor IV, in 1919.


American Boy Scouts

The honorary vice presidents and founders included Col John Jacob Astor, William K Vanderbilt Jr Major General Fred D. Grant, Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles, General EA McAlpin, and Lieutenant General Adna R Chaffee.


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