Born: Baden, Germany July 17, 1763
Died: 1848 New York City, and buried at Trinity Churchyard cemetery
John Jacob Astor’schildhood was very vaguely known, but it did say that when he was younger he had lived in Baden, Germany, but had later on moved around the war and had moved in with his brotherwho had been into the fur trading company, and he was the one who taught John how to speech English. John had perused in his dream as becoming a fur trader, he moved to New York City and had opened his own small business, He had later gotten married to a woman by the name of Sarah Todd, which had led to them being the number one trading company for China, he was most defiantly a Captain of Industry working to increase technologies.John was the first millionaire in the United States. When John had died in his will it had said that he left $400,000 for a library to be built, his total amount of money that he left when he died was $20 million dallers, which today would be around $78 billion dollars.("En.Wikipedia.Org/Wiki/John_Jacob_Astor." Wikipedia. 20 Feb. 2008 www.wikipedia.org.) (JohnJacob Astor." Nnbd. 21 Feb. 2008 http://www.nndb.com/people/090/000051934/.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
John Jacob Astor
Born: Baden, Germany July 17, 1763
Died: 1848 New York City, and buried at Trinity Churchyard cemetery
John Jacob Astor’s childhood was very vaguely known, but it did say that when he was younger he had lived in Baden, Germany, but had later on moved around the war and had moved in with his brother who had been into the fur trading company, and he was the one who taught John how to speech English. John had perused in his dream as becoming a fur trader, he moved to New York City and had opened his own small business, He had later gotten married to a woman by the name of Sarah Todd, which had led to them being the number one trading company for China, he was most defiantly a Captain of Industry working to increase technologies. John was the first millionaire in the United States. When John had died in his will it had said that he left $400,000 for a library to be built, his total amount of money that he left when he died was $20 million dallers, which today would be around $78 billion dollars.("En.Wikipedia.Org/Wiki/John_Jacob_Astor." Wikipedia. 20 Feb. 2008 www.wikipedia.org.) (JohnJacob Astor." Nnbd. 21 Feb. 2008 http://www.nndb.com/people/090/000051934/.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">