J.P. Morgan

- American financier, banker, philanthropist, and art collector
- dominated corporate and industrial consolidation during his time.
- He and his partners we're accused by critics of controlling the nation's high finance.
- Wanted to buy out Carnegie's steel business and merge it with other steel, coal, mining and shipping firms to create United States steel corp.
- After death, he gave his company to his son J.P. Morgan Jr.