Identifier: newyorkmetropoli00spra_0 (find matches)
Title: New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men.
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Sprague, John Franklin.
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Publisher: (New York) : New York Recorder
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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boasted of wealth or spoke about it ; his ruling passion wasto faithfully discharge his various duties, and this he fol-lowed with a consistency that neither the weight of respon-sibility nor the burdens of age could alter. After his wifesdeath, which took place on February 15, 1872, he continuedhis devotion to business, but lived (juietly with his wifesnephew—Mr. John S. Ainslie—at his house. No. 372 Fifth.Vvenue, sjjending his leisure time reading French andEnglish classic literature. He died on November 24,1875. When Mr. Astor succeeded to his fathers estate in1848 he was already wealthy. He had been very successfulin the fur trade, and was President of the American FurCompany. He had received $500,000 from an uncle andthe title to the Astor House property from his father. Tothe Astor Library he gave $250,000 in cash and $200,000 inbooks, which, with other bequests, swelled his total donationsto that institution to $550,000. He left five children, two NE)V YORK, THE METROPOLIS.
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NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS. 139 sons, John Jacob and William, antl three daughters, I.nuly,who married Samuel Ward and died (iiiite young, leavinga daughter, Mattie, who was at once adopted l)y her grand-father as his own daughter, and who married John Win-throp Chanler, Member of C^ongress from New York City ;Aiida, the second daughter, who married John Casey ofEngland, and Laura, who married Franklin Delano of NewYork. JOHN JACOB ASTOR II.John Jacob Astor, the second of the name, was born inNew York, June 10, 1822. His parents were William H.Astor, son of the founder of the family, and Margaret Re-becca, daughter and granddaughter of the Armstrongs ofRevolutionary honor. After graduating from Columi)iaCollege he was sent to the University of (lottingen, where,thirty years earlier, his father had studied and formedfriendships with the men who were destined to pre))are themind of Cermany for national unity. When to this hadbeen added the diploma of Harvard Law School and ayears practice

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