Coleman Drayton and then Geordie Haig (4) Caroline, Mrs M. He and his wife had a son ( John Jacob Astor IV who was lost on the Titanic) and four daughters: (1) Emily, Mrs James Van Alen (2) Helen, Mrs James Roosevelt (3) Charlotte, married J. He spent most of his time on his yacht in Florida or a t Ferncliff, leaving his wife to hold court in the city as the leader of "the 400" at the Mrs Astor House on Fifth Avenue.
William mixed with a bad crowd and was an absent husband and father. He dedicated his life to the pursuit of pleasure through women, drink, horse-racing, hunting, yachting and gambling - except not even that made him happy. William quickly became disinterested in business and neither did he care for his wife's increasingly ambitious social aspirations. This animosity spread to their wives and then to their sons, dividing the family. But, being kept as nothing more than a junior partner under his imperious elder brother, John Jacob III, their once close friendship began to fray and not helped by their political differences either: William was a Republican like all the Astors, but John became a Democrat. When the Astors owned New York : blue bloods and grand hotels in a Gilded Age by Kaplan, Justin Publication date 2006 Topics Astor family, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (New York, N.Y. William was bright, finishing near to the top of his class at Columbia College.
Astor House on Lafayette Place, New York City, and his family's country estate in the Hudson Valley, Rokeby.
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