2006-07-10 02:22:54 · 4 answers · asked by gaylan1004 1 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
Some of the most prominent people in the world were travelling in first class. These included millionaire John Jacob Astor and his pregnant wife Madeleine; industrialist Benjamin Guggenheim; Macy's department store owner Isidor Straus and his wife Ida; Denver millionairess Margaret "Molly" Brown; Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon and his wife, couturiere Lady Duff-Gordon; streetcar magnate George Dunton Widener, his wife Eleanor, and their 27-year-old son, Harry Elkins Widener; Pennsylvania Railroad executive John Borland Thayer, his wife Marion and their seventeen-year-old son, Jack; journalist William Thomas Stead; the Countess of Rothes; United States presidential aide Archibald Butt; author and socialite Helen Churchill Candee; author Jacques Futrelle, his wife May, and their friends, Broadway producers Henry and Rene Harris; and silent film actress Dorothy Gibson.
2006-07-10 03:03:45 · answer #1 · answered by a13 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
John Jacob Astor IV and Madeleine Talmadge Force
Astor mainly dealt in real estate which included the original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. A divorce and marriage to the much younger Madeleine Talmadge Force caused a scandal and he and his new wife took an extended honeymoon abroad to wait out the controversy. Madeleine Astor's pregnancy cut short the trip and they booked passage on board the RMS Titanic
2006-07-10 02:27:33 · answer #2 · answered by Puppy Zwolle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
JJ Astor is the only one that went down on the Titanic...his wife Madeline and her maid made it safely to NYC.
2006-07-10 02:30:59 · answer #3 · answered by aloneinga 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Astors
2006-07-10 02:25:06 · answer #4 · answered by momsapplepeye 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋