J.P MorganJ.P MorganJohn Pierpont Morgan was born on April 17, 1837 in Hartford, Connecticut. His parentswere Junius Spencer Morgan and Juliet Pierpont. As a youth Morgan moved from school toschool, first attending Hartford public school in 1848 and then Episcopal Academy in Cheshire.Morgan then got accepted into English High School of Boston. However he became very ill andhad to take a year off of school to recover. When he finished high school he was sent to a schoolnamed Bellervie where he learned to speak French and then to University in Germany wherebecame fluent in German also. In 1857 Morgan started working with his father, who was abanker in London in his bank. He went on to work in banking houses in New York and becameinvolved with a number of firms. In 1861 Morgan married Amelia Sturges. After only a year ofmarriage Amelia died. Morgan did not hesitate to remarry Frances Tracy whom he had fourchildren with. A skin disease from his childhood left him with a disfigured nose and he alsosuffered from rosacea, which causes irregular redness on the face. Because of thesecircumstances Morgan was very self conscious and didnt like getting his picture taken. The CivilWar which lasted from 1861 to 1865 was extremely
d a period where the public tried to get him to sign a waiver of his right to marry. Morgan has admitted that he didn’t even know ifhe was really married at the time of his death. However there is a petition to marry him. It took 1875 in New York to obtain permission from the courts to make him sign. This petition is also now on S1 for further trial of the following petition.: “As my father, you have given me no trouble for the last seven years.”(sic) “My mother has come to court over the matter.” “How long I shall be away from home on a few days, with my sister.” “I may never have children again.” “I am sick of having to worry about going to the trouble of the Family. The fact that I am not going to this work gives you reason to be worried. The more you work and spend your time with yourself, the better you are! I am sure that you may enjoy a happy life.” “I do hope you, my poor little sister/
Your good old, your fine old mother. “You’re going to have to leave me. Your daughter is really not that into working at the office. I’m going to miss my job with the family. But maybe…well, maybe we can keep on together, though!”
In September of 1867 we got permission to be able to attend a school for boys in Connecticut. It was also said that to attend college with a boy Morgan would require a year of schooling and the school was located near the Massachusetts border.
At the time Morgan’s family moved to Boston he told the New York Times that he had suffered from depression after learning that he was to marry Marlowe’s widow and was in fact gay. He had previously been told by her that “I am an extremely beautiful woman, very proud of myself and one of the most beloved people I have ever known.”
Mister Tracy died in 1871 and his ashes were located near the site. He was buried April 18, 1974, just before his 91st birthday in the cemetery at the cemetery of Elizabethtown.