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The Morgan family is an American family and banking dynasty, which became prominent in the U.S. and throughout the world in the late 19th century and early 20th century.. Members of the family amassed an immense fortune over the generations, primarily through the work of Junius Spencer (J.S.) Morgan (1813–1890) and John Pierpont (J. P.) Morgan Sr. (1837–19
On December 11 1890, Grew married John Pierpont Morgan Jr., the son and heir of the financier and banker J. P. Morgan. [2] The ceremony took place at Arlington Street Church in Boston. [2] The couple raised four children: Junius Spencer Morgan III (1892–1960), who married Louise Converse (1895–1974), daughter of Frederick Shepherd Converse ...
After Morgan's death in 1913, Greene continued in her role working for his son and daughter-in-law, J. P. Morgan Jr. and Jane Norton Grew Morgan. [ 6 ] [ 20 ] Morgan left her fifty thousand dollars in his will, enough capital for her to live on comfortably, though she continued to supplement her inheritance with the $10,000-a-year salary that ...
Anne Tracy Morgan was born on July 25, 1873, [2] at "Cragston" her family's country estate on the Hudson River at Highland Falls, New York, [3] the youngest of four children born to John Pierpont Morgan and his wife, Frances Louisa (née Tracy) Morgan.
Like many aspiring bankers of the mid-19th century, young John Pierpont Morgan got into the business of finance with the help of some old-fashioned family connections. From 1857 through 1871,
John Pierpont Morgan was born on April 17, 1837, in Hartford, Connecticut to Junius Spencer Morgan (1813–1890) and Juliet Pierpont (1816–1884), of the influential Morgan family. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] His father, Junius, was then a partner at Howe Mather & Co., the largest dry goods wholesaler in Hartford.
As the situation deteriorated, John Pierpont Morgan, the American financier who founded what is now JPMorgan Chase, was eventually forced to call together a group of Wall Street’s best and ...
John Pierpoint Morgan—more commonly known as "J.P. Morgan" and namesake and founder of J.P. Morgan Private Bank—was present at the Titanic launch party in 1911 because he also founded the ...