Morgan
Morgan names 7 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Morgan JOHN PIERPONT, an American capitalist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN PIERPONT, an American capitalist; born in Hartford, Conn., April 17, 1837; was educated at the University of Göttingen, Germany. In 1871 was made a partner of the firm of Drexel, Morgan & Co., afterward J. Pierpont Morgan & Co., and was organizer of large railroad and industrial interests. In 1901 he created the largest financial concern known, the United States Steel Corporation, with a stock JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN, SR. capital of $1,100,000,000 and a working capital of $200,000,000. Mr. Morgan has been a large donor to charitable and educational institutions. His gifts include $500,000 to the New York Trade Schools; $1,350,000 to the New York Lying-In Hospital; a collection of ancient Greek ornaments valued at $150,- 000 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the finest mineral collected States valued at $200,000 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art; $100,000 to the Young Men's Christian Association of New York City; $1,000,000 to Harvard College for the Medical School; etc. Died in Rome, 1913.
Morgan JOHN PIERPONT, an American banker
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN PIERPONT, an American banker, the son of J. P. Morgan, who died in 1913; born in New York City in 1867, graduated from Harvard University in 1889, and became a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. He inherited nearly all his father's fortune in 1913, as well as his father's position on many important banking and railroad directorates. In the same year he was elected director of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, but resigned under the fire of criticism directed against his house and its connections with the road. During the World War of 1914-1917 Morgan negotiated large loans in America in the interest of the Allied governments. Mr. Morgan also served as the chief agent for many of the larger enterprises for the relief of Europe, such as the Belgian Relief Fund, etc.
Morgan LEWIS HENRY, an American archæologist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LEWIS HENRY, an American archæologist; born in Aurora, N. Y., Nov. 21, 1818. He was graduated at Union College in 1840; became a lawyer at Rochester; served in the State assembly (1861) and senate (1868). His earliest work, "The League of the Iroquois" (1851), was the first account of the organization and government of an Indian tribe; but even more valuable are his "Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family" (1869), and his treatise on "Ancient Society" (1877). He also published "Houses and House-life of the American Aborigines" (1881), and an account of the beaver. He died in Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 17, 1881.
Morgan JOHN TYLER, an American lawyer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN TYLER, an American lawyer; born in Tennessee, June 20, 1824. He was admitted to the bar in 1845; presidential elector on the Breckenridge ticket in 1860; entered the Confederate service as a private in 1861; promoted for gallant and distinguished services, and in 1863 was commissioned Brigadier-General. He was elected to the United States Senate from Alabama in 1877; re-elected in 1883, 1889, and 1895. He was appointed one of the commissioners to represent the interests of the United States in the Board of Arbitration to which was submitted the Bering Sea dispute. He died June 11, 1907.
Morgan G. CAMPBELL, an English clergyman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
G. CAMPBELL, an English clergyman; born Dec. 9. 1863. Ordained in the ministry of the Congregationalist Church in 1889. His most prominent pastorate was that of the Westminster Congregational Chapel, Buckingham Gate, London. From 1901-1904 he was a Northfield Bible Conference Extension lecturer, and is at present pastor of Highbury Quadrant Congregational Church. Dr. Morgan has written many works, chiefly on Christianity as interpreted by modern evangelism, such as "A First Century Message to Twentieth Century Christians," etc.
Morgan DANIEL, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
DANIEL, an American military officer; born in New Jersey, in 1736. He took a prominent part in the expedition under Arnold against Quebec, 1775-1776; was in command of the riflemen at the battle of Saratoga, in 1777; and defeated the British under Tarleton at the Cowpens, S. C., in 1781. He died in Winchester, Va., July 6, 1802.
Morgan EDWIN VERNON, American diplomat
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDWIN VERNON, American diplomat; born at Aurora, N. Y., 1863. Graduated at Harvard, 1890. Assistant instructor in history, 1891-1894. Studied in Berlin, 1891-1892. Professor of history, Adelbert College (Western Reserve University), 1895-1898. Secretary Samoan High Commission, 1899, and subsequently held various consular positions. United States Minister to Korea, 1905; Cuba, 1905-1910; Uruguay-Paraguay, 1910-1911; Portugal, 1911-1912.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's wrote most of these in 1921, and the two bankers have moved furthest since. The elder Morgan's United States Steel, praised as "the largest financial concern known" at $1,100,000,000, was broken from its pinnacle by decades of foreign competition and was dropped from the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 2014; his son's House of Morgan was split by the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 into a commercial bank and the securities firm Morgan Stanley, and the library the father built on East 36th Street opened to the public in 1924. Lewis Henry Morgan, filed here as an "archaeologist," is now read as a founder of American anthropology: his kinship work still underpins the field, though the ladder from savagery to barbarism to civilization in Ancient Society was abandoned by later scholars even as Engels built on it. Of the rest, Daniel Morgan's victory at Cowpens is preserved as a national battlefield and G. Campbell Morgan is still in print among evangelicals, while Senator John Tyler Morgan is remembered less for the Bering Sea arbitration than for his fierce white supremacy and his lost campaign for a Nicaragua canal; the diplomat Edwin Vernon Morgan, whose list of posts ends in 1912, went on to spend some twenty years as envoy to Brazil.
Written for this edition, 2026.