The last time a J.P. Morgan helped solve an American banking crisis, it was the dude - John Pierpont Morgan himself - rather than the institution that now bears his name who had come to the rescue ...

At the peak of his influence more than a century ago, John Pierpont Morgan Sr. reorganized -- or "Morganized" as some dubbed it -- bankrupt railroads and took them over.

Morgan By Jean Strouse Random House, $34. 95. 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 ...

Judge Elbert Henry Gary permitted the Saturday Evening Post to print last week an interview concerning the late John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), the man who had raised him, a reluctant Illinois ...

J. PIERPONT MORGAN: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT—Herbert L. Satterlee—Macmillan ($3.75). The elder J. (for John) Pierpont Morgan distrusted newspapermen, avoided “magazine men,” and there is no ...

John Pierpont Morgan did buy the bottle sometime in the late 19th century or early 20th century, but how and when is a bit unclear. One version of the story says he got the bottle in a set of ...

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 ...

The library of John Pierpont Morgan, also known as the East Room. Graham Haber/Courtesy Morgan Library & Museum Another of Morgan’s lasting legacies is now gearing up to celebrate its 100th ...

And there’s John Pierpont Morgan, the 19th-century American financier who used his unimaginable wealth to build a collection of art and manuscripts so grand that The Times of London, in 1908 ...