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.
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
George Peabody
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George Peabody was an American financier and philanthropist. He is often considered the father of modern philanthropy.
Junius Spencer Morgan
…financing cotton and other goods shipped from Boston harbor. On May 15, 1853, at the recommendation of James Beebe, Morgan visited the American banker George Peabody in London. Peabody, who was in poor health, offered Morgan to join his banking house as a junior partner, to be made the senior partner upon Peabody's…
Peabody's birthplace, now the George Peabody House Museum, in Peabody, Massachusetts
The Peabody Trust continues to provide cheap housing in central London. This sign marks the Horseferry Road Estate in Westminster.
The first block of Peabody dwellings in Commercial Street, Spitalfields, London. A wood-engraving published in The Illustrated London News in 1863, shortly before the building opened.