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    • Who Was J.P. Morgan? How Did He Make a Fortune? - Investopedia
      • Morgan used his personal power and reputation to encourage the formation of trusts and mergers within industries where he saw ruinous competition. Although he will always be remembered for trying to create a steel monopoly in the form of U.S. Steel, many of the other large companies Morgan helped create were beneficial to the economy.
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  2. Apr 23, 2024 · Morgan pledged his own money, and convinced other wealth individuals to do the same in order to sure up the financial industry. This plan then received presidential approval, and the panic...

  3. Jun 27, 2015 · A look into how J.P. Morgan built his $49 billion fortune. The famous banker and financier John Pierpont Morgan died in 1913 while in Italy; he was 75 years old.

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  4. Nov 9, 2009 · One of the most powerful bankers of his era, J.P. (John Pierpont) Morgan (1837-1913) financed railroads and helped organize U.S. Steel, General Electric and other major corporations.

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  5. Apr 3, 2014 · J.P. Morgan became one of the wealthiest and most powerful businessmen in the world through his founding of private banks and industrial consolidation in the late 1800s.

  6. Morgan died in Rome, Italy, in his sleep in 1913 at the age of 75, leaving his fortune and business to his son, J. P. Morgan Jr. Biographer Ron Chernow estimated his fortune at $80 million (equivalent to $2.5 billion in 2023).

  7. J.P. Morgan was known for reorganizing businesses to make them more profitable and stable and gaining control of them. He reorganized several major railroads and became a powerful railroad magnate. He also financed industrial consolidations that formed General Electric , U.S. Steel , and International Harvester .

  8. Oct 20, 2021 · By 1875, the 33-year-old Morgan had accumulated a fortune of $350,000 (equivalent to almost $7 million in modern terms) and contemplated retirement. His father talked him out of it, and Morgan went on to build a fortune equivalent to $49 billion over the next four decades.

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