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William Waldorf Astor

(Astor, William Waldorf Astor, Viscount, 1848-1919)

William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor (31 March 1848 – 18 October 1919) was an American-English attorney, politician, hotelier, publisher and philanthropist. Astor was a scion of the very wealthy Astor family of New York City. He moved to England in 1891, became a British subject in 1899, and was made a peer as Baron Astor in 1916 and Viscount Astor in 1917 for his contributions to war charities. The census-designated place of Waldorf, Maryland is named after him. (From Wikipedia)

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Opinion of John Jacob Astor and William Astor on a Broadway underground railway (s.n.], 1884), by Seymour B. Durst, Samuel McElroy, and Abner Bartlett (page images at HathiTrust)

Books by William Waldorf Astor:

Astor, William Waldorf Astor, Viscount, 1848-1919: Pharaoh's Daughter; and Other Stories (London: Macmillan, 1900)

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Astor, William Waldorf Astor, Viscount, 1848-1919: Report to the Executive Committee of the Tuxedo Club, from the committee appointed to examine into the original historical names of the Tuxedo region; together with a copy of the manuscript map of this portion of New York and New Jersey, made for Washington in the years 1778-1779. (New York, 1888), also by N.Y.) Tuxedo Club (Tuxedo Park (page images at HathiTrust)
Astor, William Waldorf Astor, Viscount, 1848-1919: Sforza, a story of Milan (C. Scribner's sons, 1889) (page images at HathiTrust)
Astor, William Waldorf Astor, Viscount, 1848-1919: Valentino : an historical romance of the sixteenth century in Italy (C. Scribner's Sons, 1885) (page images at HathiTrust)
Astor, William Waldorf Astor, Viscount, 1848-1919: Valentino : an historical romance of the sixteenth century in Italy (Scribner, 1886), also by Charles Scribner's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
Astor, William Waldorf Astor, Viscount, 1848-1919: Valentino : An historical romance of the sixteenth century in Italy (Scribner's sons, 1885) (page images at HathiTrust)

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