New settlers arrived by steamboat to the town which Astor had endowed with a church, schoolhouse, botanical garden, and free cemetery.

The railroad arrived in 1880, the first train coming from Astor to Fort Mason, where passengers and freight made lake steamer connections to Leesburg, Helena, Yalaha, Bloomfield, Lane Park and Tavares.

In 1820, Pierre Frieschutz Navarre arrived, representing the American Fur Company ( AFC ) of John Jacob Astor.

The American Fur Company of John Jacob Astor had founded Fort Astoria just months before Thompson arrived, though within a year the local staff at Astoria sold the fort and others in the region to the North West Company, which renamed it Fort George.

* 1919 – Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom ( she had been elected to that position on November 28 ).

John Jacob Astor ( born Johann Jakob Astor ; July 17, 1763 – March 29, 1848 ) was a German-American business magnate, merchant and investor who was the first prominent member of the Astor family and the first multi-millionaire in the United States.

Astor took advantage of the Jay Treaty between Great Britain and the United States in 1794, which opened new markets in Canada and the Great Lakes region.

At the time of his death in 1848, Astor was the wealthiest person in the United States, leaving an estate estimated to be worth at least $ 20 million.

* 1919 – Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

** Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, becomes the second woman elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom and the first to take her seat ( the first elected was Constance Markievicz ).

Astor was born Nancy Witcher Langhorne in Danville, Virginia, in the United States.

Her second husband, Waldorf Astor, was born in the United States but his father had moved the family to England when Waldorf was twelve and raised his children as English aristocrats.

As fiercely anti-Communist as they were anti-Semitic, Kennedy and Astor looked upon Adolf Hitler as a welcome solution to both of these " world problems " ( Nancy's phrase ).... Kennedy replied that he expected the " Jew media " in the United States to become a problem, that " Jewish pundits in New York and Los Angeles " were already making noises contrived to " set a match to the fuse of the world.

Astor is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Lake County and Volusia County, Florida, United States.

Notable descendants include Presidents of the United States George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, the entire Fish and Kean families, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of New York Anna Morton, actors Montgomery Clift and Michael Douglas, actress Jane Wyatt, poet Robert Lowell, cinematographer Floyd Crosby, his son David Crosby, author Wolcott Gibbs, and almost the entire Astor family.

* The Astor family ( United States )

In 1815, when he was twenty-three years old, he returned to the United States and entered partnership with his father, who changed the name of his firm to John Jacob Astor & Son and engaged in the China trade.

In 1818 William Backhouse Astor married Margaret Rebecca Armstrong ( 1800 – 1872 ), the daughter of United States Secretary of War and Senator John Armstrong, Jr.

In 1843-1844 he made a prosperous tour in the United States, but his last visit to that country, in 1849, was marred by a riot at the Astor Place Theatre, New York, arising from the jealousy of the actor Edwin Forrest, and resulting in the death of twenty-three persons and the further injuring of one hundred, who were shot by the militia called out to quell the disturbance ; Judge Charles Patrick Daly later presided at the trial.

A few years later, in 1811, John Jacob Astor returned and set up the first permanent United States settlement at Astoria, then a trading post.

Viscount Astor, of Hever Castle in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

He had already been created Baron Astor, of Hever Castle in the County of Kent, in 1916, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Baron Astor of Hever, of Hever Castle in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

The Astor family is a prominent American family notable for its importance in business, society and politics in the United States and the Great Britain during the 19th and early 20th century.

Beyond New York City, the Astor family name is imprinted in a great deal of United States history and geography.

# William Backhouse Astor, Sr. ( 1792 – 1875 ), married Margaret Rebecca Armstrong ( 1800 – 1872 ), the daughter of United States Secretary of War and Senator John Armstrong, Jr ..

#### William Astor Chanler ( 1867 – 1934 ), United States Congressman

In 1881, Astor was defeated by Roswell P. Flower as a candidate for United States Congress.

* William Astor Chanler ( 1867 – 1934 ), United States Congressman

Walldorf is currently probably best known as the city that headquarters the world's fourth largest software company SAP, but it is also the birthplace of the millionaire John Jacob Astor, at the time of his death the wealthiest man in the United States.

* John Jacob Astor, at the time of his death the wealthiest man in the United States

It is named for John Jacob Astor, at one time the richest person in the United States, who died in 1848 ; the street was named for him soon after.

David Astor was looking for a provocative contributor for The Observer and invited Orwell to write for him — the first article appearing in March 1942.

* March 5 – David Astor, British newspaper publisher ( d. 2001 )

* March 30 – Brooke Astor, American socialite and philanthropist ( d. 2007 )

* March 31 – Viscount William Astor, British financier and statesman ( d. 1919 )

* March 29 – John Jacob Astor, American businessman ( b. 1763 )

* March 8 – William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor, British politician ( b. 1907 )

Roberta Brooke Astor ( née Russell, previously Kuser and Marshall ) ( March 30, 1902 – August 13, 2007 ) was an American philanthropist and socialite who was the chairwoman of the Vincent Astor Foundation, which had been established by her third husband, Vincent Astor, son of John Jacob Astor IV and great-great grandson of America's first multi-millionaire, John Jacob Astor.

* Nancy Astor by Shirley Williams, 29 March

William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor ( 31 March 1848 – 18 October 1919 ) was a very wealthy American who became a British nobleman.

Francis David Langhorne Astor CH ( 5 March 1912 – 7 December 2001 ) was an English newspaper publisher and member of the Astor family.

Madeleine Talmage Astor Dick ( née Force, formerly Fiermonte ) ( June 19, 1893 – March 27, 1940 ) was the second wife and widow of millionaire John Jacob Astor IV and a survivor of RMS Titanic.

Buoyed by the success of these tests, in March 1950, Astor embarked upon a tour of 200 regional towns with a mobile broadcast unit, giving a series of 45 minute demonstration programs, allowing local performers and members of the public to appear on camera.

The Metropolitan Museum, New York owns three of Schreyer's oriental paintings: Abandoned, Arabs on the March and Arabs making a detour ; and many of his best pictures are in the Rockefeller family, Vanderbilt family, John Jacob Astor, William Backhouse Astor, Sr., August Belmont, and William Walters collections.