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Bookmark or Share- Anderson Cooper on the rise and fall of the Astor fortuneThe next generation featured William Astor, who owned numerous buildings in New York City. "The Astors were slumlords, there's no doubt about it," Cooper said.
- William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor - WikipediaWilliam Waldorf Astor III, 4th Viscount Astor (born 27 December 1951) is an English businessman and politician who sits as a Conservative hereditary Lord Temporal in the House of Lords. He is a member of the Astor family, which is known for its prominence in business, society, and politics in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
- Astor family - WikipediaThey had eight children, including John Jacob Astor Jr. (1791–1869) and real estate businessman William Backhouse Astor Sr. (1792–1875). [5] John Jacob's fur trading company established a Columbia River trading post at Fort Astoria in 1811, the first United States community on the Pacific coast.
- William Waldorf Astor (1848-1919) - American Aristocracy"Willy" Astor, 1st Viscount Astor, of Hever Castle, Kent. He was born at 338 Fifth Avenue. Representing the senior line of the Astors, on his father's death in 1890 he inherited a fortune of about $150 million and collected rents in New York City that amounted to $6 million a year.
- William Waldorf Astor - WikipediaWilliam Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor [1] (31 March 1848 – 18 October 1919) was an American-English attorney, politician, hotelier, publisher and philanthropist. Astor was a scion of the very wealthy Astor family of New York City.
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