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William Astor (1830-1892) : social aspirations of a gentleman

… Wiliam Backhouse Astor jr (1830-1892), the second son of the landlord of New York and Margaret Livingston Armstrong entered in the family history less by his ability to increase the Astor fortune than for his marriage to Caroline Webster Schermerhorn (1830-1908), who used the Astor fortune along with her own Dutch-American pedigree to crown herself Queen of America’s High Society …

 

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