John Jacob Astor
From Kook Science
The Astor Fortune
Captain Kidd's Treasure
Re: Franklin Head's claim that the Astor fortune began with John Jacob Astor's recovery of Captain Kidd's buried treasure at Deer Isle, Maine.
- Head, Franklin H. (1898), Studies In Early American History: a Notable Lawsuit, Chicago: Priv. Print
- "Greatest Hoax of Recent Times 'Laid' After 29 Years - Franklin H. Head's Story of the Start of the Astor Fortune and Subsequent Suit for More Than 5 Million Dollars, Written to Entertain a Club in 1894, Has Been Published as True Many Times Since — Officially Branded Fake by Son of Reputed Plaintiff.", Kansas City Star (Kansas City, MO): 26, 8 Nov. 1923, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111548887/greatest-hoax-of-recent-times-laid/