John Pierpont
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John Pierpont was an American poet, who was also successively a teacher, lawyer, merchant, and Unitarian minister. His poem The Airs of Palestine made him one of the best-known poets in the U.S. in hi
Photograph of Pierpont by Mathew Brady
John Pierpont in 1821 by Rembrandt Peale
Pierpont's lifelong friend, John Neal
Junius Spencer Morgan
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Junius Spencer Morgan I was an American banker and financier, as well as the father of J. P. Morgan and patriarch to the Morgan banking house.
John Pierpont
…Mary Elizabeth Pierpont (1812–1857), who died unmarried. Juliet Pierpont (1816–1884), who married Junius Spencer Morgan, and was the mother of financier John Pierpont Morgan. John Pierpont Jr. (1820–1879), who married Joanna LeBaron Sibley (1820–1852), a daughter of Jonas…
Junius Spencer Morgan Project Gutenberg e Text 17976
George Peabody, Morgan's senior partner and the founder of the firm that would become J. S. Morgan & Co.
Morgan's decision to finance the French during the losing days of the Franco-Prussian War netted him a profit of £1.5 million.
Morgan's eldest son, J. P. Morgan, photographed by Steichen in 1903