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Jackie
and Nick Drexel. Jacqueline Astor and John R. Drexel
IV
are the most direct ancestors of the original “Four Hundred.” Jackie’s
great-grandmother was the Mrs. Astor. Her grandfather Col. J.
J. Astor is now part of American folklore: He went down on the Titanic in
1912 after making sure his young wife, who was carrying their unborn son (later
Jackie’s father John Jacob Astor VI), was safely in a
lifeboat.
The first Drexels emigrated from Austria and settled in Philadelphia, where they
went into banking. In 1871, A.J. Drexel admitted to his firm
a young banker named J. Pierpont Morgan, creating Drexel, Morgan.
Mr. Drexel died in 1893, and the firm became known as JP Morgan & Company
or the House of Morgan.
Today’s Drexels, like their contemporaries, are a professional couple.
She is a real estate broker for Stribling Associates here in Manhattan, and he
is an investment banker. While they still have direct connections to Newport
and Palm Beach which both their families have been visiting for more than a century,
neither have an avid interest in the social life of those two resorts, other
than their associations with old friends and family members. |
Albemarle,
Rufus
Aston, Muffie Potter
Basso, Dennis
Benedict, Daniel
Capehart, Jonathan
Cominotto, Michael
Curry, Boykin
Dahl, Tessa
DeWoody, Beth Rudin
Duchin, Peter and Brooke
Duff, Patricia
Eaton, Phoebe
Fales-HIll, Susan
Fekkai, Frederic
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