Contrast this with the reputation accorded book collectors like James Lenox, John Jacob Astor and Samuel J. Tilden, whose personal libraries were turned over to the City of New York and combined to form one of the world's great public
After securing the financial support of New York philanthropist, Vincent Astor (great grandson of businessman John Jacob Astor, whose Pacific Fur Company settled Astoria), the column was erected in 1926 on Coxcomb Hill. 
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