When financier J.P. Morgan sought a librarian for his massive collection of books, his relative recommended a young woman who ...

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.

John Pierpont Morgan was by now 70 years old, semi-retired, long a Wall Street legend founder of J.P. Morgan & Co., underwriter of U.S. Steel, patron of one of the world’s largest privat… ...

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 ...

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. PIERPONT MORGAN AT HOME.; Arrived on the Teutonic, and Was Met at Quarantine by His Yacht Corsair. Share full article. June 10, 1897. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

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 ...

The famous banker and financier John Pierpont Morgan died in 1913 while in Italy; he was 75 years old. At the time of his death, Morgan's net worth totaled $118.3 million: half in his estate and ...

There she met a cousin of J. Pierpont Morgan, who at the time was looking for someone to organize his growing collection. Sponsor Message "The interview went amazingly, as we can all imagine ...

After withdrawals lashed the banking system in 1907, financier J. Pierpont Morgan corraled his peers into using their own money to calm the crisis. Over a century later, ...

This exhibition features twenty small-scale ancient bronze sculptures from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, all purchased by the American financier J. Pierpont Morgan between 1904 and 1916 and ...

The museum at the J. Pierpont Morgan mansion uses paintings, books and a clump of coins to examine the ubiquitous role of money through the ages. Listen to this article · 7:51 min Learn more.