Junius Spencer Morgan I was an American banker and financier, as well as the father of John Pierpont "J.P." Morgan and patriarch to the Morgan banking house.
Junius Spencer Morgan
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
John Pierpont Morgan 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 that ultimately became known as J.P. Morgan and Co., he was a driving personal force behind the wave of industrial consolidations in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century.
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.
Early view (c. 1855) of 229, 225 and 219 Madison Avenue before the street was paved
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
