Wealthy businessmen such as John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim chose to remain behind knowing that they would meet their deaths in the freezing waters of the North Atlantic. Merchant prince ...

April last year, bidding, which started at £60,000, on a 14-carat gold Waltham pocket watch worn by the richest man aboard the Titanic, John Jacob Astor IV, far exceeded expectations when it sold ...

It was the early-morning hours of April 15, 1912, and a lifeboat was being lowered from the doomed Titanic barely a third full. The only Dayton-bound passenger — a 22-year-old Lebanese man named ...

Overall, the building has 12 floors and 48-units. Once upon a time, the site was owned by John Jacob Astor, whose son, William Waldorf, sold to Bing & Bing Realty, the agency behind some of the ...

In a previous sale, the same auction house sold a pocket watch recovered from John Jacob Astor, the wealthiest man on board the Titanic, for GBP 900,000 (₹9.4 crore INR). Though less opulent ...

Though John Jacob was the richest man aboard the Titanic in 1912, his vast fortune could not save him from the tragic fate of that ill-fated voyage. A gold pocket watch he was wearing at the time ...

Among the victims was one of the world's richest men, John Jacob Astor. As a new luxury ocean liner, the Titanic attracted some of the wealthiest and most prominent members of American society.

However, most of his money went to his first son, Vincent (pictured), from his first marriage. John Jacob Astor VI received only a small portion of his father's fortune, but Vincent went on to donate ...

Led by the University of the Virgin Islands and the Virgin Islands Department of Planning ... St. Croix; Coral Bay, St. John and Vessup Bay, St. Thomas, making a significant impact on the health of ...