The Astor family
By: John D. Gates.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Astor family.
Description: John Jacob Astor (1763-1846) immigrated from Germany to America via England in 1784. He married Sarah Todd in 1785 and they settled in New York, but he had enterprises in Canada, the Midwest and the West where he plied the fur trade. Descendants have remained chiefly in the East.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [337]-339.
Includes index.