John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company made him the richest man in America in the 1840s.

凭借其名下的美国皮草公司，约翰·雅各布一跃成为美国19世纪40年代的首富。

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Though John Jacob did purchase property in New York, it was his son, William Backhouse Astor, who really began to expand the family’s real estate holdings.

虽然当时约翰也在纽约购置房产，但家族房地产事业真正扩张是靠了他的儿子威廉•B•阿斯特(William Backhouse Astor)。

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"John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" is a traditional children's song from the United States and Canada.

《约翰·雅各伯叮当海玛施密特》是来自美国和加拿大的一首传统儿童歌曲。

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And in eighteen hundred eleven, John Jacob Astor built a fur trading center at the mouth of Oregon's Columbia River.

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One of the wealthiest men, John Jacob Astor, based his company, the American Fur Trading Company, in Mackinaw Island, Michigan.

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He was a great-great-grandson of real estate and fur magnate John Jacob Astor, one of the United States' first multimillionaires.

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Ms. Astor, the widow of a descendant of 19th-century magnate John Jacob Astor, died in 2007 at the age of 105.

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