NEW YORK, April 16, 1912 (UP) - Seldom in the history of navigation has a steamer carried so many noted persons as thronged the Titanic on her maiden trip. Hardly any of the noted passengers were ...

Submersibles captured images of the Titanic wreck to create ... First-class passengers John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim, two of the wealthiest men on the boat, both lost their lives ...

After escorting his pregnant second wife to a lifeboat, coolly waving to her as the boat was lowered to the calm sea, jaunty, mustachioed Colonel John Jacob Astor IV went down with the unsinkable ...

In 1911, a teenaged socialite named Madeleine Talmage Force rose from relative obscurity to land one of the greatest eligible bachelors of her era: a newly divorced Colonel John Jacob Astor IV ...

‘Recently I attended a luncheon meeting of newspaper and magazine publishers in honor of Colonel John Jacob Astor, chairman of the London Times. Colonel Astor had come to ask for help in finding ...

A commemorative gold watch that was gifted to the captain of a ship who rescued 700 passengers and crew members of the Titanic has sold for £1.56 million ($1.97 million), making it the most ...

and Colonel John Jacob Astor IV, a real estate tycoon, and his wife Madeleine. Astor went down with the ship but Madeleine survived. While James Cameron’s blockbuster feature film Titanic ...

A quaint carriage house near Manhattan's Gramercy Park was originally built in the late 1800s. Descendants of Winston Churchill and New York's famous Astor family once lived there. The three ...

“Col. Astor to Wed Madeleine Force,” the headline read. The pairing proved controversial, as Madeleine was only 18 years old at the time. John Jacob Astor IV, meanwhile, was 47 and had a son one year ...

The Astors came from nothing. American fur trader and financier John Jacob Astor.Stock Montage/Stock Montage/Getty Images Johann Jacob Astor worked as a butcher in Walldorf, southeastern Germany ...