J. Pierpont Morgan, an intimate portrait, by Herbert L. Satterlee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Satterlee, Herbert Livingston, 1863-1947.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913.

Morgan, J. Pierpont.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvi p., 1 l., 595 p. front., plates, ports., maps, facsims. 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, The Macmillan company, 1939.

Contents:

I. 1847-1845 Ancestry and background

II. 1846-1854 Pierpont's school days in Hartford, Cheshire, and Boston

III. 185-1857 Pierpont's school life at Bellerive

IV. 1857-1866 Pierpont's life in New York

V. 1866-1869 The first two children, Louisa and Jack

VI. 1869-1877 The home in New York City

VII. 1877-1880 Furnishing funds to pay the Army

VIII. 1881-1885 Jay Gould's plans and his alliance with George M. Pullman and Horace Porter

IX. 1885-1889 The West Shore Railroad reorganization

X. 1889-1894 Railroad management reform

XI. 1895 The firm name change to J.P. Morgan & Co.

XII. 1896-1899 The Gold Syndicate of 1896

XIII. 1900-1901 Mr. Morgan plans his Library on Thirty-sixth Street

XIV. 1902-1904 The new Lying-in Hospital

XV. 1905-1907 The result of "Morgan Leadership"

XVI. 1907 The Panic

XVII. 1908-1909 The voyage on Adriatic with Louisa

XVIII. 1910-1911 Dedication of Morgan Memorial in Hartford

XIX. 1912 New Year's at sea

XX. 1913 The last trip abroad.

Notes:

"First printing."

The first four chapters were included in the author's "The life of J. Pierpont Morgan" published in 1937. cf. Foreword.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.

OCLC:

1669762