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water he can find; his body seeming to have the same characteristic as his mind, when hard questions are to be dealt with. And as one neighbor tersely put it: "A duck has very hard work to pass Judge Carter," which is not bad shooting for a man over seventy, and looking to have at least ten good years in him yet.
JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1837; son of Junius S. Morgan, the eminent London banker; "a graduate of the Boston English High School; of the University of Göttingen; entering the New York banking-house of Duncan, Sherman & Co. at twenty; in 1860 made American agent of George Peabody & Co., of London; maintaining a similar relation since with J. S. Morgan & Co.; in 1864 a member of Dabney, Morgan & Co.; in 1871 of Drexel, Morgan & Co. By the death of the older members, he has now risen to the head of the greatest private bank in America and one of immense influence in the country's financial progress. Reorganization of railroads, negotiation of large loans, and the establishment and conduct of enormous trusts have been carried on by Mr. Morgan and his present firm to an extent never before approached, scarcely conceived of; and with uniform and marvellous success. Cæsar and Napoleon's greatest and most lasting bequests to their nations were their roads. In her grandest day, when the Roman Empire extended from Scotland to the Sahara, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Euphrates, she was justly proud of her magnificent system of roads, which, starting from the famous Golden Milestone in the very heart of her great capital, stretched in all directions to the farthest confines of her mighty empire. But Mr. Morgan controls over fifty thousand miles of road to-day—more than these two men, or any other two men, ever controlled in the world's history—and better roads besides; and is said to have the controlling vote on over a billion dollars' worth of stock.
And of a body to match his big brain. His father, tall, stalwart, of commanding presence, resembled Daniel Webster more in figure, carriage, and bearing than, per-
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