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Astor in 1909 Astor as Henry IV of France. John Jacob Astor IV was born on July 13, 1864, at his parents' country estate of Ferncliff in Rhinebeck, New York.He was the youngest of five children and only son of William Backhouse Astor Jr., a businessman, collector, and racehorse breeder/owner, and Caroline Webster "Lina" Schermerhorn, a Dutch-American socialite.
The RMS Titanic departing Southampton, on 10 April 1912 ; five days later, after colliding with an iceberg, it sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. A total of 2,240 people sailed on the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, the second of the White Star Line's Olympic-class ocean liners, from Southampton, England, to New York City. [1]
Ida spent the winter of 1911/1912 in Europe with her husband Isidor. They originally planned to return home on a different ship, but switched to the Titanic due to a coal strike in England that caused the coal from other ships to be diverted to the Titanic.
A gold watch worn by John Jacob Astor IV, a member of the wealthy Astor family and the richest man aboard the Titanic, sold for a record-breaking £1.175 million ($1.485 million) at auction on ...
Stockton Rush’s wife is descendant of famous couple who died on Titanic. Thursday 22 June 2023 15:00, Ariana Baio. ... two of the wealthiest people who set sail on the Titanic, Mr Straus was a ...
Wendy Rush is the great-great-grandaughter of Ida and Isior Straus, two of the wealthiest people to die in the Titanic disaster. Musician King Princess, Descended from Couple Who Perished on the ...
The couple are portrayed in the 1953 film Titanic, the 1958 film A Night to Remember, and in the musical Titanic, in scenes that are faithful to the accounts described above. In the 1979 film S.O.S. Titanic , Ida and Isidor are shown, however the film deviates from the accounts and has Ida tell Isidor that she plans to "stay a little while."
Newspaper report of the sinking of the Titanic. Most reports featured the Astors in the headlines. Madeleine Astor, then five months pregnant, boarded the Titanic as a first-class passenger in Cherbourg, France, with her husband; her husband's valet, Victor Robbins; her maid, Rosalie Bidois; and her nurse, Caroline Endres.