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J. P. Morgan - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article |
 | | 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 was educated at the English High School of Boston and at the University of Göttingen. |
 | | 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. |
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