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America's first multimillionaire, John Jacob Astor was born in Walldorf, Germany, in 1763 and emigrated to America at the age of 21 where he entered the fur trade, building up a lucrative monopoly. At the time of his death in 1846, the German-American businessman, who was also a big player in the real estate and opium industries, had a net worth of $148 billion in today's money.
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