Auxiliary Sciences of History.


Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte was, for a couple of years, the sister-in-law of Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France. Unfortunately, Napoleon did not agree with her marriage to his younger brother, and had the marriage annulled.	John Jacob Astor started in the fur business in 1784, and by 1800 had a net worth of $250,000. In 1811 one of his companies founded what is now Astoria, Oregon, and by the early 1820's he had a total monopoly on fur trade in the United States.