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 ...

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 ...

J udge Elbert Henry Gary permitted the Saturday Evening Post to print last week an interview concerning the late John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), the man who had raised him, a reluctant Illinois ...

The House of Morgan, which averted the collapse of the U.S. banking system in 1907, couldn't survive the forces that have reshaped the financial industry a century later. J. Pierpont Morgan, born ...

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 ...

J.P. Morgan sat for two minutes; one of the resulting portraits defined his reputation. Edward Steichen “No price is too great,” John Pierpont Morgan once declared, “for a work of ...

J. PIERPONT MORGAN: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT—Herbert L. Satterlee—Macmillan ($3.75). The elder J. (for John) Pierpont Morgan distrusted newspapermen, avoided “magazine men,” and there is no ...

T oward the end of the 19th century, J. Pierpont Morgan—the Gilded Age’s wolf of Wall Street—used some of his wealth to amass a vast collection of books and art. He soon realized it needed a ...