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- Morgan made handsome profits by providing war materials. One of his enterprises sold defective rifles to the Union army. Upon later investigations, he was declared ignorant of the poor quality of his guns and was cleared of all charges. After the war, he set out to corner the nation's financial markets.
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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...
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Nov 9, 2009 · Morgan used his influence to help stabilize American financial markets during several economic crises, including the panic of 1907. However, he faced criticism that he had too much power...
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In August 1861, Morgan lent $20,000 (equivalent to $532,770 in 2023) to Simon Stevens, a well-connected New York City attorney and former secretary to Thaddeus Stevens. Stevens used the money to purchase five thousand carbines for resale to General John C. Frémont, commander of the Department of the West. [23]
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. At the time of his death,...
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Apr 3, 2014 · The following year, he fronted a syndicate that sold $40 million in bonds to finance the Northern Pacific Railroad, then the largest transaction of railroad bonds in U.S. history.
His most renowned purchase was in 1901, when he bought the Carnegie Steel Company for $500 million to create U.S. Steel. Within ten years U.S. Steel was worth over a billion dollars. Morgan's actions marked a shift in thinking among American industrialists.
On his own time he began to do what seemed to come naturally to him: engineering money deals. One of his early ventures was to purchase a shipload of coffee in New Orleans and then sell it to merchants in New York at a profit.
