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 ...

John Pierpont Morgan was by now 70 years old, semi-retired, long a Wall Street legend founder of J.P. Morgan & Co., ... some of the biggest names in finance and industry bowed to his will.

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, Morgan's ...

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 ...

Using his bank’s resources, he bought up smaller firms throughout a given industry, smashed them together, and produced a behemoth of a modern corporation, with Morgan men duly seated on the board.

From 1857 through 1871, J.P. Morgan worked his way up through the industry, first as a representative of his father's London-based firm, then as an independent agent for that firm under a self ...

IF JOHN D. Rockefeller and J. Pierpont Morgan were alive, how would they ... he quickly rescued his mother from poverty and with breath-taking aplomb captured control of the infant petroleum industry.

Although JPMorgan Chase (JPM) was only formed in 2000, the bank has roots that date back to our Founding Fathers. Drexel, Morgan & Co. was founded by investment banker J. Pierpont Morgan and ...

Chase Manhattan Corp. is acquiring J.P. Morgan & Co. for about $36 billion in stock, creating a union between two of the oldest and most prestigious financial firms in the United States.