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J.P. Morgan.

362237 — 2016-10-03 16:34:32 UTC

John Pierpont Morgan was born on April 17, Connecticut. He is best known for the symbol of CHASE bank. Before that he helped merge the electric companies and soon became a major endorser to the Carnegie Steel Company. He helped stop the panic of 1907 by investing in major corporations. He is known as America's banker.

Andrew W. Mellon

362237 — 2016-10-04 15:21:43 UTC

Andrew W. Mellon was born on March 24, 1855. He grew up as a businessman in Pennsylvania. His father was a banker so Andrew fell into his footsteps. He started his own business in banking. He was a huge success to everyone around him and became wealthy quickly.

Andrew Carnegie

362237 — 2016-10-06 02:19:56 UTC

Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835 in Scotland. He grew up with grew up poor and worked for a telegraph company. He started investing into railroads and it became a huge hit. He started then investing everything he had in steel. Carnegie was known as the most wealthiest person in U.S. history to this very day.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

362237 — 2016-10-06 02:53:30 UTC

Cornelius Vanderbilt was born on May 27, 1794 in New York. He grew up a fighter which earned his reputation as a ruthless fighter. As he grew up he invested into railroads.The railroads are what go him into an abundance of money. Vanderbilt was the only person who ever had complete control over the railroads. By owning the railroads he was greatly feared for his power.

John D. Rockefeller

362237 — 2016-10-06 03:13:34 UTC

John D. Rockefeller was born July 8, 1839 in upstate New York. He made it big when he was the main leader of the oil companies. He was able to buy out all of his other suppliers by lowering his prices. After he owned all of the other oil companies he raised prices to because he was the only one with oil. Rockefeller is the reason we have gasoline station today.

700926_2 — 2025-04-25 18:17:50 UTC