Editing John Jacob Astor (section)

===Migration to the United States===
In November 1783,{{sfnp|''EB''|1911}} just after the end of the [[American Revolutionary War]], Astor boarded a ship for the United States, arriving in [[Baltimore]] around March of the following year.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Howden Smith |first1=Arthur D. |title=John Jacob Astor: Landlord of New York |year=2005 |orig-date= 1929 |publisher=Cosimo (orig. Blue Ribbon) |location=New York |isbn=1596057491 |page=27 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VBOZyVuMaGgC&q=john+jacob+astor |access-date=December 22, 2021}}</ref> There, he rented a room from Sarah Cox Todd, a widow, and began a flirtation with his landlady's daughter, also named Sarah Cox Todd. The young couple married in 1785. His intent had been to join his brother Henry, who had established a butcher shop in New York City.<ref name="Walker 2015" /><ref name="Notable Biographies">{{Cite web|url=http://www.notablebiographies.com/An-Ba/Astor-John-Jacob.html|title=John Jacob Astor Biography – life, family, childhood, death, mother, son, old, information, born, house|website=Notable Biographies|access-date=October 9, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=A Place That I Love: A Tour Drivers Perspective of Mackinac Island|last=Kitter|first=Walter|publisher=Xlibris Corporation|year=2015|isbn=9781514414552|location=Bloomington, IN}}</ref> A chance meeting with a fur trader on his voyage had inspired him to join the [[North American fur trade]] as well.{{sfnp|''EB''|1878}}<ref name="Notable Biographies" /> After working at his brother's shop for a time, Astor began to purchase raw hides from [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]], prepare them himself, and resell them in London and elsewhere at great profit.{{sfnp|''EB''|1911}} He opened his own fur goods shop in New York in the late 1780s and also served as the New York agent of his uncle's musical instrument business.
In 1789, along with Dubois & Stodart{{who|date=April 2025}}, he co-founded the [[Francis Bacon Piano Company]].{{cn|date=April 2025}}