| 1837/04/17 |
Juliet Pierpont, wife of Junius Spencer Morgan, gives birth to a son, John Pierpont Morgan, in Hartford, Connecticut. |
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J P Morgan's Birthday |
| 1860/00/00 |
A house, barn, well, carriage house and stable are built in the Carpenter Gothic style on JP Morgan's Cragston estate. |
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Cragston Dependencies |
Fort Montgomery |
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| 1869/00/00 |
American Museum of Natural History is established by Albert Smith Bickmore, one-time student of Harvard zoologist Louis Agassiz. |
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American Museum of Natural History |
New York City |
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| 1871/00/00 |
J Pierpont Morgan partners with Philadelphia banker Anthony Drexel to form Drexel, Morgan and Co, a private merchant banking house in New York City. |
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| 1880/00/00 |
J P Morgan finances the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad underwriting the sale of $40 million in bonds, at the time "the largest transaction in railroad bonds ever made in the United States." |
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Northern Pacific Railroad Completion Site, 1883 |
Goldcreek, MT |
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| 1887/00/00 |
J P Morgan creates the New York and Northern Railway from remains of New York, Westchester and Putnam Railway |
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| 1892/00/00 |
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The Homestead |
Hot Springs |
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| 1895/01/01 |
Drexel, Morgan and Co is rechristened J P Morgan and Co with J Pierpont Morgan as the head of all four affiliated partnerships in New York, Philadelphia, London and Paris. |
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J P Morgan and Co Building |
New York City |
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| 1895/02/20 |
J P Morgan leads a $65 million bond offering to bail out United States government |
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Panic of 1893 |
| 1896/00/00 |
William West Durant sells Uncas with 1,100 acres (450 ha) to J Pierpont Morgan. |
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Camp Uncas |
Town of Long Lake |
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| 1897/01/04 |
I have had preliminary studies made by Mr Robertson, as architect, which I think will be satisfactory.... I assume that the cost of the building will be about $1,000,000, which sum I am prepared to donate for that purpose. - J P Morgan letter to W A Duer |
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Society for the Lying-In Hospital |
New York City |
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| 1899/08/00 |
Stuyvesant and Marion Fish host a dinner and ball in the honor of Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia at their Crossways Mansion. |
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Crossways Mansion |
Newport, RI |
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Boris Vladimirovich's World Tour |
| 1900/00/00 |
Because of a rise in the price of structural materials, Mr Morgan subsequently gave $500,000 additional. - The New-York Tribune |
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Society for the Lying-In Hospital |
New York City |
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| 1901/09/07 |
J P Morgan directs a memorial to President McKinley. Workmen cut bales of crepe and use sewing machines to make long black streamers to be draped on wooden frames which are to be erected on the front of the Drexel, Morgan and Co building (lost). |
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J P Morgan and Co Building |
New York City |
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Assassination of William McKinley |
| 1902/00/00 |
Pierpont Morgan chooses architect Charles McKim to design a library for his collection of rare books. It was built between 1902 and 1906. |
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Morgan Library and Museum |
New York City |
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| 1902/00/00 |
JP Morgan orchestrates the merger of Deering Harvester Company with McCormick Reaper Company and others to form the International Harvester Company. James Deering becomes Vice President of the new firm. |
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| 1907/00/00 |
J P Morgan bails out the United States Treasury. |
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Panic of 1907 |
| 1907/00/00 |
J Pierpont Morgan offers to build the Morgan Memorial. |
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Wadsworth Atheneum |
Hartford |
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| 1912/01/18 |
Lucretia Roberts Cromwell marries Edward T Stotesbury at his townhouse in Philadelphia. |
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Stotesbury Mansion |
Philadelphia, PA |
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Marriage of Lucretia Cromwell and Edward Stotesbury |
| 1913/03/23 |
J P Morgan has had a new building in mind for a number of years, and leases which expired were not renewed. - The Times |
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J P Morgan and Co Building |
New York City |
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| 1913/03/31 |
John Pierpont Morgan dies in his sleep at the Grand Hotel Plaza in Rome, Italy. |
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Grand Hotel Plaza, Rome |
Rome |
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Death of John Pierpont Morgan |
| 1913/04/01 |
Nearly 4,000 condolence letters over the death of J P Morgan are be received at the Grand Hotel Plaza in Rome by overnight post and flags on Wall Street fly at half-mast. |
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Wall Street |
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Death of John Pierpont Morgan |
| 1913/04/14 |
J P Morgan's body lays in State in his Library. His remains are carried by horse drawn carriage to St George's Episcopal Church. |
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Morgan Library and Museum |
New York City |
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Death of John Pierpont Morgan |
| 1913/04/14 |
The funeral for John Pierpont Morgan is held at St George's Episcopal Church in New York City. |
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St George's Episcopal Church |
New York City |
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Death of John Pierpont Morgan |
| 1913/04/14 |
New York Stock Exchange closes for two hours in honor of the funeral of J P Morgan. |
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New York Stock Exchange |
New York City |
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Death of John Pierpont Morgan |
| 1913/04/14 |
The remains of John Pierpont Morgan are interred in the Morgan mausoleum at Cedar Hill Cemetery in his birthplace of Hartford, Connecticut. |
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Cedar Hill Cemetery |
Hartford |
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Death of John Pierpont Morgan |