One of the wealthiest men, John Jacob Astor, based his company, the American Fur Trading Company, in Mackinaw Island, Michigan.
He was a great-great-grandson of real estate and fur magnate John Jacob Astor, one of the United States' first multimillionaires.
Ms. Astor, the widow of a descendant of 19th-century magnate John Jacob Astor, died in 2007 at the age of 105.
Swelling demand pushed trappers farther west, cutting new trade routes, expanding a young nation's borders and creating the first American multimillionaire, John Jacob Astor.
Mr. JOHN JACOB (Senior Vice President, Digital River, Inc.): Companies have raised more capital in this market than on NASDAQ, New York and AMMEX.
NASDAQ's John Jacob says in recent years, they've soared in popularity.
In the 1830s, John Jacob Astor transferred his fortune in beaver pelts and international trade into real estate, to become New York's largest landholder and richest man.
John Jacob Astor, flogging his furs, might not have approved.
Four days after their deaths, the coffins of the two men, John Gibson and Jacob Chestnut, lay in state in the Capitol's Rotunda.
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and Secretary of State John Kerry are supposedly scheduled to fly to China this month to meet him.
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South African rugby captain John Smit will also take part, while the country's president Jacob Zuma will kick off proceedings alongside Fifa president Sepp Blatter.
The President noted that Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew will visit China next week and that Secretary of State John Kerry will also visit Beijing in the coming weeks as part of his upcoming trip to Asia.
The amendment calling for elections is signed by Tory awkward squaddies Christopher Chope, David Nuttall, Edward Leigh, Peter Bone and Jacob Rees-Mogg, plus heavyweight ex-ministers David Davis and John Redwood and 1922 Committee grandees Graham Brady and Charles Walker.
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