Vincent Astor (1891-1959)
Captain (William) Vincent Astor, Founder of the Vincent Astor Foundation
He was featured in the first Forbes Rich List (1918) coming in at twelfth with $75-million, behind Mrs E.H. Harriman and ahead of James Stillman, Thomas Fortune Ryan, Daniel Guggenheim, Charles Schwab and J.P. Morgan, Jr., who all came in tied at thirteenth. He contracted mumps at the time of first marriage which made him sterile. He was married three times and with his third wife, Brooke Astor, created the Astor Foundation that still operates today. Vincent Astor died without children.
