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=**john jacob astor**= ==He was born on july 17,1763 in Walldorf. He was a son of a farmer. When he was sixteen he moved to London to work with his brother who made musical instruments. Then he heard froma friend that people made good money buying and selling fur. Then he moved to new york in 1783. Within three years he had  established great business buying furs from Native American trappers at the mouth of the Columbia River in Washington. The work was so great that he started  ==