John Jacob Astor left Madeleine — who gave birth to their son John Jacob Astor VI that August — $100,000 (worth over $2.75 million today), his home on Fifth Avenue, and a $5 million trust fund.

In 1828, John Jacob Astor built a trading post on the Missouri River. Business was so profitable that it only took four decades for Astor to become America's first multimillionaire. National ...

The trophy was commissioned more than a century ago by Vincent Astor, son of industrialist John Jacob Astor, to be awarded to the winner of the Astor Cup Challenge – a 350-mile race on a 2-mile board ...