John Jacob Astor IV (July 13, 1864 – April 15, 1912) was an American millionaire businessman, real estate builder, inventor, writer, a member of the prominent Astor family, and a lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War. He died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. Birth John Jacob Astor IV was born to William Backhouse Astor, Jr. and Caroline Webster Schermerhorn.
John Jacob IV was the great–grandson of John Jacob Astor whose fortune, made in opium, fur trade and real estate, made the Astor family one of the wealthiest in the United States. Edit Education Astor attended St Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire and later attended Harvard University. Edit Early career Among Astor's accomplishments was A Journey in Other Worlds, an 1894 science fiction novel titled about a fictional account of life in the year 2000 on the planets Saturn and Jupiter.
He also patented several inventions, including a bicycle brake in 1898, a "vibratory disintegrator" used to ... more.
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