married diplomat James Roosevelt "Rosey" Roosevelt (1854–1927), half-brother of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and had two children. Charlotte Augusta Astor (1858–1920), who married James Coleman Drayton (1852–1934) and had four children. They divorced and she later married George Ogilvy Haig (1859–1905). Caroline Schermerhorn "Carrie" Astor (1861–1948), who married Marshall Orme Wilson (1860–1926), brother of banker Richard Thornton Wilson Jr. and socialite Grace Graham Wilson, and had two sons. John Jacob "Jack" Astor IV (1864–1912), who married socialite Ava Lowle Willing (1868–1958) and had two children, later married socialite Madeleine Talmage Force (1893–1940), the sister of real estate businesswoman/socialite Katherine Emmons Force, and had one son. He died at the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912. William Backhouse Astor Jr. died of an aneurysm at the Hotel Liverpool in Paris. Astor, an Episcopalian, was buried in Trinity Church Cemetery in New York City. He is one of several responsible for opening up the tourist trade in Florida. His widow died years later in 1908. Notes References Further reading William Backhouse Astor Jr. 30 Richest People In World History - No. 25 (translated from Malaysian) William Backhouse Astor Jr. (I29207) Astor, William, 1829-1892 William Backhouse Astor + Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Karman, James. The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers. Volume Two, 1931–1939. 2011 1829 births 1892 deaths 19th-century American Episcopalians Columbia College (New York) alumni American racehorse owners and breeders Owners of Kentucky Derby winners William Backhouse Livingston family 19th-century American businesspeople Businesspeople from New York City Burials at Trinity Church Cemetery People included in New York Society's Four Hundred