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	J. P. Morgan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913), American financier and banker, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, a son of Junius Spencer Morgan (1813–1890), who was a partner of George Peabody and the founder of the house of J.
		Morgan and Co. Closely associated with Drexel and Co. of Philadelphia, Morgan, Harjes and Co. (successors to Drexel, Harjes and Co.) of Paris, and, Morgan, Grenfell and Co. (before 1910 J.
		Morgan was a notable collector of books, pictures, and, other art objects, many loaned or given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (of which he was president), and many housed in his London house and in his private library on 36th Street, near Madison Avenue in New York City.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Pierpont_Morgan (1030 words)

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		While Morgan and his associates denied consistently before the Pujo Committee and on other occasions the existence of a "money trust," few acute observers of the American business scene doubted the unparalleled business and financial clout of Morgan and Company.
		Morgan handled the operation to the advantage of the financial stability of the nation and to the enormous profit of J.P. Morgan and Company.
		P. Morgan's ties to Hartford were expressed in his presentation in 1910 of the Morgan Memorial Wing (in honor of his father) to the Wadsworth Atheneum.
	www.ctheritage.org /encyclopedia/ct1865_1929/morgan.htm (495 words)

	MSN Encarta - J.P. Morgan
		Morgan, John Pierpont (1837-1913), American investment banker, art collector, and philanthropist, considered by many the greatest financier in the history of United States business.
		Morgan was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of financier Junius Spencer Morgan.
		To protect his investors from bankruptcy, Morgan would often reorganize the railroad, reduce its debt to avoid bankruptcy in the near future, and place men loyal to him in control.
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	obits.com, The Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for John Pierpont Morgan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Morgan's first position was as an accountant in the New York firm of Duncan, Sherman and Company, a financial institution that represented the interests of the London based banking enterprise George Peabody and Company.
		Morgan's accumulation of the major transportation of the era did in fact stabilize both travel and shipping rates, quell competition and regulated industry standards and controls in an age when the government could not or would not issue regulation.
		Morgan's profits and flamboyant lifestyle were the focus of attention, media tirades and outright resentment which overshadowed his work as a pioneering philanthropist.
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	John Pierpont Morgan and the American Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Morgan was physically imposing: a massive man, with a ferocious glare and a purple, hideously disfigured nose, the result of a childhood skin disease.
		Morgan's program was compatible with many corporate titans, who wanted to absorb their competition by forming giant trusts and monopolies.
		When Morgan died in 1913, he had as estate of $80 million, that's $1.2 billion today, as compared to Rockefeller's worth of nearly a billion, that's $l90 billion today.
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	Pierpont Morgan Library - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pierpont Morgan Library, originally the private library of J.
		Morgan, was converted to a public institution in 1924 as a memorial by his son, John Pierpont Morgan, Jr.
		The Morgan Library is currently closed due to a major expansion project designed by architect Renzo Piano.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pierpont_Morgan_Library (216 words)

	Morgan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		He wrested control (1869) of the Albany and Susquehanna RR from Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, he led the syndicate that broke the government-financing privileges of Jay Cooke, and he developed a railroad empire by reorganizations and consolidations in all parts of the United States.
		Morgan was an ardent sportsman, and his yacht entered many international races.
		A sister of the younger J. Pierpont Morgan, Anne Morgan, 1873–1952, was devoted to numerous philanthropic and civic organizations and constantly voiced the rights of the American woman.
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	John Pierpont Morgan - Wikipedia
		Morgan and Co firmierenden Bankhauses, das vor allem marode Eisenbahnlinien erwarb und sanierte.
		Der in Sri Lanka gefundene Stein wurde 1901 durch John Pierpont Morgan an das American Museum of Natural History übereignet und kann dort besichtigt werden.
		John Pierpont Morgan ist der Neffe von James Lord Pierpont, dem Komponisten des Weihnachtslieds Jingle Bells.
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	J. Pierpont Morgan and the French Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum
		Morgan was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1837.
		Morgan’s interest in the French ancien régime was not confined to works of art, but extended to historical material, including autograph letters by Madame de Maintenon, Madame de Pompadour, Marie-Antoinette, as well as marriage contracts for the French kings from Louis XIII to Louis XVIII.
		The Pierpont Morgan Library retained the works on paper, books, and manuscripts, as well as the decorative objects and paintings that were part of the Library’s furnishings and decoration.
	www.netcomuk.co.uk /~jpap/morgan.html (3297 words)

	J. P. Morgan
		John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 - March 31, 1913), American financier and banker, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, a son of Junius Spencer Morgan (1813-1890), who was a partner of George Peabody[?] and the founder of the house of J. Morgan & Co. in London.
		In 1895 the firm became J. Morgan & Co. Closely associated with Drexel & Co. of Philadelphia, Morgan, Harjes & Co. (successors to Drexel, Harjes & Co.) of Paris, and, Morgan, Grenfell & Co. (before 1910 J. Morgan & Co.) of London, it became one of the most powerful banking houses in the world.
		It financed the formation of the United States Steel Corporation[?], which took over the business of Andrew Carnegie and others and was the world's first billion-dollar corporation.
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	JP Morgan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Born in 1837 as the son of John Spencer Morgan, an ambitious financier, he followed in his father's footsteps after studying in Europe and began his rapid rise in the world of American high finance at the age of 20.
		In retrospect John Pierpont Morgan is viewed as a charismatic businessman who despite his pursuit of wealth was always committed to the greater good and progress of the American nation.
		Originally used as a private library by John Pierpont Morgan, the Italian Renaissance-style palazzo was opened to the public in 1924 by Morgan's son Jack in accordance with the terms of his father's will.
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	John Pierpont Morgan
		John Pierpont Morgan was one the most powerful financiers of the later nineteenth and early twentieth In an era known for socially irresponsible “robber barons”, he amassed a tremendous fortune as a banker, a builder of railroads, and reorganizer of the steel, electric and telephone industries.
		But Morgan’s deeper interest (the interest of his soul, however much the personality was sensitive to the higher influence) was in the economic growth of America and (obsessively) in art.
		Morgan compensated mightily for the wounds of childhood.
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	John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913)
		Morgan showed an interest for collecting at an early age, when at fourteen he wrote to President Millard Fillmore in an effort to obtain his autograph.
		Morgan was willing, and moreover financially able to purchase an entire vitrine of objets d’art just to obtain one single piece.
		Morgan was often known to buy at auction, though dealers, and often used a private name.
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	John Pierpont Morgan
		This house is among the chief negotiators of railroad bonds, and was active in the reorganization of the West Shore railroad and its absorption by the New York Central railroad.
		The John Pierpont Morgan Dynasty JP Morgan Sr.
		Pierpont, one of the founders of Yale College, to the financier, JP Morgan...
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	John Pierpont (J.P.) Morgan - People of Connecticut
		His father, Junius Spencer Morgan, was a prosperous financier, with holdings in America and Europe, who taught his son from an early age how to manage the family assets that he (J.P.) would someday inherit.
		From 1864 to 1871 he was an increasingly influential member of the firm Dabney, Morgan & Co., and in 1871 he became a partner in Drexel, Morgan & Co. In 1895, this firm became J.P. Morgan & Co., and was recognized here and abroad as one of the most powerful financial institutions in the world.
		Knowing this, Morgan founded and acquired huge steel-making operations, in effect owning the steel operations that supplied his rail companies with their steel.
	www.netstate.com /states/peop/people/ct_jpm.htm (684 words)

	JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		John Pierpont Morgan was a banker, the son of a banker and through his own abilities the most formidable of all American financiers.
		Morgan began at the top working as lawyer and banker in his father's international banking firm of J. Morgan and Company, and for his father's equally astute banking partner, George Peabody.
		Morgan was a handsome man who admired handsome men and beautiful women.
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	Bankers II - John Pierpont Morgan
		Morgan seized them and became the leading railroad financier, after William Henry Vanderbilt, the Commodore's eldest son and heir, entrusted him with the sale of 100'000 New York Central Railroad shares in London.
		Building also on the Drexel's connections to the Pennsylvania Railroad, Morgan took the role of pacificator in the clash between this powerful group and the Vanderbilt family.
		The holding, capitalized at $ 400 million, was the epitome of Morgan's railroad empire, but it was dissolved in 1904, a victim of Theodore Roosevelt's campaign against the trusts.
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	John Pierpont Morgan
		John Pierpont Morgan, the son of a successful financier, was born on 17th April, 1837.
		Morgan had good links with the London financial world and was able to arrange the capital for growing industrial corporations in the United States with money from British bankers.
		John Pierpont Morgan died on 31st March, 1913.
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	Directory - Regional: North America: United States: Connecticut: Society and Culture: Famous Nutmeggers: Industrialists ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) was born in Hartford, Connecticut.
		John Pierpont Morgan and the American Corporation · cached · Excerpt from "Biography of America".
		Morgan, John Pierpont [1837-1913] - American Banker and Financier · Detailed biographical information, including companies of which he became the director and charitable gifts bestowed.
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	MORGAN, JOHN PIERPONT (1837—1913) - Online Information article about MORGAN, JOHN PIERPONT (1837—1913) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Drexel, Morgan and Co., in which he was associated with See also:
		In 1895 the firm became J. Morgan and Co. Closely associated with Drexel and Co. of Philadelphia, Morgan, Harjes and Co.
		Morgan, Grenfell and Co. (before 1910 J. Morgan and Co.) of London, it became, largely owing to Mr Morgan's ability, one of the most powerful banking houses in the See also:
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	JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN
		(1837-1913), American financier and banker, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on the I 7th of April 1837, a son of Junius Spencer Morgan (1813-1890), who was a partner of George Peabody and the founder of the house of J. Morgan and Co. in London.
		Cincinnati, Chicago and St Louis (1888); the Erie and the Reading (1895); the New York and New England (1896); the Northern Pacific (1897); the Baltimore and Ohio (1899), andc.; and in 1895 it supplied the United States government with $62,00o,00o in gold to float a bond issue and restore the treasury surplus of $Ioo,000,ooo.
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	John Pierpont Morgan Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Morgan's son John, who inherited his father's banking business, was known as J.P. Morgan, Jr.
		At the turn of the century (1901), J. Morgan was the wealthiest man in America.
		In 1891 Morgan arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thompson-Houson Electric Company to form General Electric.
	www.karr.net /encyclopedia/John_Pierpont_Morgan (769 words)

	John Pierpont Morgan, II Biography / Biography of John Pierpont Morgan, II Biography Biography
		John Pierpont Morgan II (1867-1943), American banker, headed J. Morgan and Company, one of the most prestigious private banking firms in the world.
		Born in Irvington, New York, on Sept. 7, 1867, J. Morgan II was the only son of the powerful financier.
		Morgan never fully grasped the significance of the attack on big business that characterized his years as head of the house of Morgan.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-john-pierpont-morgan-ii/index.html (522 words)

	The Owner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		They were subtly persuaded by Morgan who all but owned the docks of New York and had the means to choke the City's import and export trade.
		John Pierpont Morgan He was born on Monday 17th April 1837 in Hartford (CT, USA), he was almost 75 when the Titanic sank.
		He was supposed to join her for her maiden voyage but cancelled his passage, sparing him the fate of many of the other millionaires.
	www.starway.org /Titanic/Owner.html (188 words)

	Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials
		Morgan was a massive, physically imposing man, with a ferocious glare and a purple, hideously disfigured nose, the result of rosacea, a chronic skin disease that was incurable in those days.
		He was born John Pierpont Morgan in Hartford, Connecticut on 17th April, 1837, the son of Junius Morgan, a successful international investment banker who operated mainly out of London.
		John Pierpont Morgan died in Rome, Italy on 31st March, 1913.
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