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J.P. Morgan & Co. is an American financial institution specialized in investment banking, asset management and private banking founded by financier J. P. Morgan in 1871. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, the company is now a subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase , one of the largest banking institutions in the world.
The firm's early history can be traced to 1799, with the founding of what became the Chase Manhattan Company. In 1871, J.P. Morgan & Co. was founded by J. P. Morgan who launched the House of Morgan on 23 Wall Street as a national purveyor of commercial, investment, and private banking services.
1950s popular singer, later game show panelist Jaye P. Morgan, born Mary Margaret Morgan, acquired the nickname reflecting J.P. Morgan while serving as her high school class treasurer. The villain of Street Fighter 6 is an elderly upper-class banker that uses a variety of aliases, all of which have the initials "JP."
J. P. Morgan may also refer to: J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867–1943), son of J. P. Morgan and American philanthropist; Jaye P. Morgan (born 1931), American singer and actress; Business. JPMorgan Chase, large financial services company formed through the merger of J.P. Morgan & Co. and Chase Manhattan Bank in 2000; J.P. Morgan & Co., former banking ...
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The Manhattan Company Building at 40 Wall Street. In 1891, the board of directors of the Bank of Manhattan Trust Company elected Stephen Baker vice president. Baker, a son of former U.S. Representative Stephen Baker and protégé of financier John Stewart Kennedy, was the grandson of Stephen Baker, a prominent New York merchant who was one of the original stockholders of the Manhattan Company.
Having no son of his own to whom he could pass on his business, Peabody took on Junius Spencer Morgan as a partner in 1854 and their joint business would go on to become the global financial services firm J.P. Morgan & Co. after Peabody's 1864 retirement. In his old age, Peabody won worldwide acclaim for his philanthropy.
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