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After he finished his education we worked as a clerk at New York at Duncan, Sherman & Co.
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Married Amelia "Memie" Sturges after she was diagnosed with tuberculosis.
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Joined senior partner Charles Dabney to form a new firm.
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Married Frances Louisa "Fanny" Tracy, the daughter of a New York lawyer.
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Morgan founded the J.P. Morgan & Co. banking firm.
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Dabney retired so he joined with a Philadelphia banker to form Drexel, Morgan & Co.
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Morgan bought 250,000 shares of the New York Central Railroad from William Vanderbuilt.
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Morgan ended a feud between top directors of New York Central & Pennsylvania Railroad. He held a meeting between the two companies on his yacht, called the Corsair. He told them the yacht would not go back to the port until they reached an agreement in which they did which would eventually be called the Corsair Compact.
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Morgan arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston Company to form General Electric.
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Newly independent Panama elected J.P. Morgan to be fiscal agent, with responsibilities that included overseeing the transfer of $40 million to the New Panama Canal Co.
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