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biography: born April 17 1837 in Hartford Connecticut died March 31 1913 in Rome Italy

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John Pierpont (J.P.) Morgan was born to parents Juniet Spencer Morgan and Juliet (Pierpont) Morgan on April 17th, 1837 in Hartford Connecticut. He was born into a poor family as his father, Juniet, worked as a partner of George Peabody & Co. He also had three brothers, Joseph, James, and George. J.P. attended an English school in Boston and also in Germany at the University of Gottingen. When he was about twenty years old, he worked for the private banking house of Duncan, Sherman and Company. Later after graduating, George Peabody & Co. became J.S. Morgan & Co. as his father took over the business. Soon after this happened, J.S. Morgan died and left the company to J.P., his son. Before his father’s death, J.P. had established himself as a financier through Dabney, Morgan & Co. and later Drexel, Morgan & Co. Only after the Civil War did he start buying railroad companies like West Shore, Philadelphia and Reading, Richmond Terminal, the Erie and the New England railroads. His sudden buying was tagged as being Morganization. John also helped the government by buying up stocks and bailing them out. J.P. was involved in a large project that ended up costing five billion dollars to form the US Steel Company. He was also involved in General Electric and Western Union Telegraph Company. He was a collector as well, collecting art pieces and pictures and books which he loaned or gave away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Morgan was a yachtsman and won the America’s Cup in 1899 and 1901 and also a prominent member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Eventually, John Pierpont Morgan died on March 31st, 1913 in Rome Italy.

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