At a time when most people lived and died within a hundred miles of where they were born, John Jacob Astor's birth in the German territory of the margrave of Baden-Baden was almost accidental.
An edition of John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire
(2001)
John Jacob Astor
America's first multimillionaire
by Axel Madsen
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"At a time when most people lived and died within a hundred miles of where they were born, John Jacob Astor's birth in the German territory of the margrave of Baden-Baden was almost accidental."
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-306) and index.
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