John Pierpont Morgan was by now 70 years old, semi-retired, long a Wall Street legend founder of J.P. Morgan & Co., underwriter of U.S. Steel, patron of one of the world’s largest private art ...

His name (hint: you’ve seen it in recent headlines) was John Pierpont Morgan ... as a major government triumph against the likes of J.P. Morgan, and the beginning of the end of the money ...

A look into how J.P. Morgan built his $49 billion fortune. The famous banker and financier John Pierpont Morgan died in 1913 while in Italy; he was 75 years old. At the time of his death ...

First up: notorious banking tycoon John Pierpont Morgan ... of Manhattan and was a gift from Pierpont to his son and heir J.P. Morgan Jr. or Jack for short. Once given to Jack, the two financiers ...

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 ...

J.P. Morgan sat for two minutes; one of the resulting portraits defined his reputation. Edward Steichen “No price is too great,” John Pierpont Morgan once declared, “for a work of ...

John Pierpont Morgan died, in the grandest suite of Rome’s Grand Hotel, just days shy of his 76th birthday, on March 31, 1913, leaving money, art, real estate, yachts and other assets valued at ...

The family has not revealed the exact date of nor the cause of Morgan's death. The former Olympian, was the great-grandson of John Pierpont (JP) Morgan, the founder of J.P. Morgan and Co ...

GLEN COVE, L. I., N.Y., July 3, 1915 (UP) - John Pierpont Morgan, the financier, was shot at his summer home here shortly before 9 o'clock to-day. The would-be assassin, apparently of German ...

The American industrialist and financier John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) was a serious collector of objects, books, and ephemera for most of his life, and his avidity and the diversity of the ...