Anthony Joseph Drexel
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Anthony Joseph Drexel Sr. was an American banker who played a major role in the rise of modern global finance after the American Civil War. As the dominant partner of Drexel & Co. of Philadelphia, he
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Drexel's statue at Drexel University in Philadelphia
Historical marker commemorating Drexel in Old City, Philadelphia.
J. P. Morgan
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John Pierpont Morgan Sr. was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. As the head of the banking firm t
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…dominant partner of Drexel & Co. of Philadelphia, he founded Drexel, Morgan & Co, which later became J.P. Morgan & Co., now JPMorgan Chase, in 1871 with J. P. Morgan as his junior partner. He also founded Drexel University in Philadelphia in 1891. In 1892, Drexel was elected to the American Philosophical Society…
Morgan in 1902
His father Junius Spencer Morgan guided his son's early career and established the Morgan banking house with offices in London, New York, Philadelphia, and Paris.
Morgan photographed c. 1870
Bond of the New Jersey Junction Railroad Company, issued 30. June 1886, reverse side with signatures of John Pierpont Morgan and Harris C. Fahnestock as trustees