The most famous loss in the family was that of John Jacob Astor IV, the great-grandson of John Jacob Astor, who died aboard ...

Despite being the richest passenger on the Titanic, Astor went down with the ship. Ultimately, neither his family name nor ...

Archibald Gracie wrote of the ill-fated steamship: "It is a fine ship but I shall await my journeys end before I pass judgment on her." ...

In Titanic's first class, John Jacob Astor was the wealthiest ... But it was John Jacob Astor IV, a member of the renowned Astor family, who was best known. There are 87 million dollars in his net ...

NEW YORK, April 16, 1912 (UP) - Seldom in the history of navigation has a steamer carried so many noted persons as thronged the Titanic ... Astor, direct male head of the famous Astor family ...

A water-stained ticket stub for the third class restaurant on the Titanic ... John Jacob Astor, founder of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim, heir to his family's mining ...

In that case, the 14-carat object belonged to the wealthiest passenger on the Titanic, John Jacob Astor, whose net worth was around $87 million when the disaster happened in 1912, according to the ...

The Titanic ... millionaire John Jacob Astor, the richest passenger on board, died, as did Benjamin Guggenheim, of the famous mining magnate family, along with Isidor Strauss, the co-owner ...

one of the most famous Titanic victims. John Jacob Astor IV was born on July 13, 1864, in New York into one of the most affluent families in the world. The Astor family dates back to the early 1700s ...