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 ...

The American industrialist and financier John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913 ... Jean Strouse, in her extraordinary, definitive biography “Morgan: American Financier” (1999), describes a man ...

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. Completed in 1927, Morgan Hall was one of the original ...

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 ...