The story of Madeleine and Colonel John Jacob Astor is very much part of the story of Bar Harbor, Maine.
In telling Madeleine Astor\'s story, the story of a changing Bar Harbor is also revealed..
It puts Madeleine Astor\'s story in the context of Bar Harbor\'s Golden Age.
This new book from historian Mac Smith documents Madeleine\'s life in Bar Harbor and the Astor presence on Bar Harbor through Colonel Aster\'s family and the Kane family--Astor cousins who were prominent there.
She died a lonely figure in her 40s.
Madeleine, now in her 40s, married a penniless young boxer and her name erased from the Social Register after that.
The story follows the 17 years of her second marriage, and then her scandalous third marriage.
In 1916, she remarried in the center of Bar Harbor, and gave up everything Astor.
Madeleine Astor returned to Bar Harbor after the Titanic disaster, where all eyes were on her, and where she was triumphant in claiming the role of social leader.
The vicious scandal after they\'re wedding caused the newlyweds to board the Titanic to return to America; the ensuing tragedy would claim the life of the colonel.
The relatively poor Madeleine Force met Colonel Astor, the third richest man in the United States, in Bar Harbor in 1910.
The story of Madeleine and Colonel John Jacob Astor is very much part of the story of Bar Harbor, Maine
