John Pierpont Morgan was an American financier and industrial organizer during the Gilded Age. In 1885, America was years into a depression, and gold reserves were down more than 50%. Morgan ...

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Morgan Hall was made possible by George F. Baker and is named in honor of his good friend and iconic figure in US business, John Pierpont Morgan ... reorganized after Drexel’s death and renamed J.P.

Today, John Pierpont ... born into the Morgan banking dynasty in 1837. Throughout the Progressive Era, he dominated the corporate world. Morgan founded the banking institution J.P. Morgan ...

He singlehandedly saved the United States from bankruptcy on two occasions but was often accused of being a monopolist He wielded as much power as the president and turned Wall Street into his ...