The most famous loss in the family was that of John Jacob Astor IV, the great-grandson of John Jacob Astor, who died aboard the RMS Titanic in 1912. Tensions between family members throughout the ...

In Titanic's first class, John Jacob Astor was the wealthiest passenger ... But it was John Jacob Astor IV, a member of the renowned Astor family, who was best known. There are 87 million dollars in ...