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Oct 12, 2017 · With the blessing of his rival, Alexander Hamilton – who was perhaps influenced by his own brush with yellow fever – Burr’s private corporation, the Manhattan Company, received permission to ...
Dec 4, 2017 · In a city still panicked by the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1798, the perennial adversaries joined forces to support Burr’s proposed legislative charter for The Manhattan Company, a private utility ...
Jul 29, 2016 · Burr essentially conned Hamilton into backing his plan for a public waterworks, and then changed the wording in the Manhattan Company’s charter to make it a front for a New York public bank.
Jun 4, 2022 · On September 1, 1799, the Manhattan Water Company opened a "house of certificate and deposit at 40 Wall Street" (via Public Water), dubbed the Manhattan Company Bank. (Hamilton controlled the only other two banks in operation at the time, and he was incensed at Burr for this threat to his monopoly, per Why Is This Interesting .)
In 1799, Hamilton and Burr presented a charter for the governor's signature that would provide clean water to New York City residents through a private company, the Manhattan Company. But there was a catch. Burr had added a clause into the charter that would allow the directors of the Manhattan Company to start a bank with excess capital not ...
The Manhattan Company, JPMorgan Chase's earliest predecessor institution, is chartered by the New York State legislature to supply "pure and wholesome" drinking water to the city's growing population. Among its founders are Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. A provision in the charter allows The Manhattan Company to use its surplus capital for ...
The Manhattan Company, Aaron Burr, and the Election of 1800 Brian Phillips Murphy O N the eve of one of the first and most important ballot contests that would ultimately decide the 1800 presidential election, a scion of New York’s foremost Republican family reached for a quill as he sought to soothe the anxieties of the faraway Virginian who
