1. Madeleine Astor was the second wife and widow of businessman John Jacob Astor IV.
21 Facts About Madeleine Astor
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Madeleine Astor's elder sister Katherine Emmons Force was a real estate businesswoman and socialite.
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Madeleine Astor owned the successful shipping firm William H Force and Co.
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Madeleine Astor was educated at Miss Ely's School and then for four years at Miss Spence's School, on West 48th Street in Manhattan.
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Madeleine Astor appeared in several New York society plays and attracted quite a following.
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Madeleine Astor was known to be a very competent horsewoman and enjoyed yachting.
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Madeleine Astor met Colonel John Jacob "Jack" Astor IV, the only son of businessman William Backhouse Astor, Jr.
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Madeleine Astor reassured her that the damage did not appear serious, though he helped her strap on her life jacket.
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Colonel Madeleine Astor helped Mrs Madeleine Astor climb through the window and asked if he could accompany her as she was 'in a delicate condition'.
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The only incident I remember in particular at this point is when Mrs Madeleine Astor was put in the boat.
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Madeleine Astor was lifted up through the window, and her husband helped her on the other side, and when she got in, her husband was on one side of this window and I was on the other side, at the next window.
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Madeleine Astor said, 'No, sir, no man is allowed on this boat or any of the boats until the ladies are off.
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Madeleine Astor was found to be carrying about $2,500 in cash, brought with him from his cabin.
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Madeleine Astor gave an account of what she recalled almost immediately after her arrival home through her spokesman Nicholas Biddle, who was a trustee of the Astor estate.
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Madeleine Astor recalled she thought that in the confusion as she was about to be put into one of the boats Colonel Astor was standing by her side.
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Mrs Madeleine Astor, it appears, left in one of the last boats which got away from the ship.
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Madeleine Astor's impression was that the boat she left in had room for at least 15 more persons.
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Madeleine Astor held this event with Marian Thayer, a survivor of the Titanic.
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Madeleine Astor did not appear very often in society until the end of 1913, when according to the press, they published her first photograph since the Titanic disaster.
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Madeleine Astor was a vice-president of the Manufacturers Trust Company of New York and a part owner and director of the Brooklyn Times.
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Madeleine Astor died of a heart ailment at her mansion in Palm Beach on March 27,1940, at the age of 46, and was buried in Trinity Church Cemetery in New York City, in a mausoleum with her mother.