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  1. American Fur Company Ledger Account Summary for 1822-23 signed by John Jacob Astor (1763-1848). by John Jacob Astor, 1823-01-01
  2. Letter Signed and Handwritten by John Jacob Astor (1763-1848). by John Jacob Astor, 1830-01-01
  3. John Jacob Astor: And the Fur Trade (American Tycoons) by Lewis K. Parker, 2003-08
  4. John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire by Axel Madsen, 2001-01-19
  5. John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic (Great Lakes Books) by John D. Haeger, 1991-05
  6. Six Tycoons: The Lives of John Jacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller, Henry Ford and Joseph P Kennedy by Wyn Derbyshire, 2008-10-15
  7. Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprize Beyond the Rocky Mountains by Washington Irving, 1982-09-01

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42. John Jacob Astor, 1763–1848, American Merchant — FactMonster.com
Encyclopedia Astor, John Jacob. Astor, John Jacob (ăs't u r) , 1763–1848, American merchant, b. Walldorf, near Heidelberg, Germany. At the age of 16 he went to England, and five
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43. Astor, John Jacob Quotes On Quotations Book
John Jacob (originally Johann Jakob) Astor (July 17, 1763 March 29, 1848) made a fortune in fur trading and real estate. He is the founder of what became known as the Astor
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44. Astor, John Jacob
Astor, John Jacob (b. July 17, 1763, Waldorf, Ger.d. March 29, 1848, New York City), fur magnate and founder of a renowned family of AngloAmerican capitalists, business leaders
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(b. July 17, 1763, Waldorf, Ger.d. March 29, 1848, New York City), fur magnate and founder of a renowned family of Anglo-American capitalists, business leaders, and philanthropists. His American Fur Company is considered the first U.S. business monopoly. Astor started a fur-goods shop in New York City about 1786 after learning about the fur trade while aboard the ship that brought him to the U.S. Benefitting from a treaty between England and the U.S. (1794) that opened up new markets in Canada and the Great Lakes region, and from shrewd dealings with Indian tribes, he had by 1800 amassed $250,000 and become the leading figure in the fur trade. Given permission to trade in ports monopolized by the British East India Company, he made lucrative fur transactions in China (1800-17), but his plan to establish a network of fur-trading posts around Astoria (now in Oregon) failed when the British captured the post during the War of 1812. At the same time, however, Astor invested in New York City real estate that became the foundation of the family fortune. His son, William Backhouse

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