Henry Sturgis Morgan

Banker

Birthday October 24, 1900

Birth Sign Scorpio

Birthplace London, England

DEATH DATE 1982-2-8, New York City, New York, U.S. (81 years old)

Nationality American

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1837

His father was the son of John Pierpont Morgan Sr. (1837–1913) and his mother was the daughter of Boston banker and mill owner Henry Sturgis Grew (1833–1910).

1900

Henry Sturgis Morgan Sr. (October 24, 1900 – February 8, 1982) was an English born American banker, known for being the co-founder of Morgan Stanley and the president and chairman of the Morgan Library & Museum.

Morgan was born on October 24, 1900, in London, United Kingdom to John Pierpont Morgan Jr. (1867–1943) and Jane Norton Morgan (née Grew) (1868-1925).

1923

He was educated at Groton School and graduated from Harvard University in 1923.

In 1923, the same year he graduated from Harvard, he joined J.P. Morgan & Co. and was a partner from 1928 to 1935.

On June 26, 1923, he married Catherine Frances Lovering Adams (1902–1988), daughter of Frances Lovering and Charles Francis Adams III, the U.S. Secretary of the Navy under Herbert Hoover, and a descendant of U.S. Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.

The couple had five sons:

1935

In 1935, he co-founded Morgan Stanley together with Harold Stanley when the Glass–Steagall Act forced the separation on investment banking and commercial banking.

1943

At the death of his father in 1943, he and his brother, Junius Spencer Morgan III, inherited the estate.

Morgan owned a 448 acre estate, which is located at Eaton's Neck Road, Eatons Neck, New York, United States.

1982

He died on February 8, 1982, in Manhattan, New York City at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.

Morgan was trustee, president and chairman of The Morgan Library & Museum, served on the boards of J.P. Morgan & Co., General Electric and Pullman Company, served as trustee of the Groton School and Museum of Modern Art and member of the Harvard Board of Overseers.

During World War II, Morgan was a commander in the Naval Reserve and served as an OSS Agent.

Like his father, brother and grandfather, he was the Commodore of New York Yacht Club where he served as chairman of its America's Cup Committee.

He was also vice president of the International Yacht Racing Union.

He was a member of the Bohemian Club, the Council on Foreign Relations, Community Service Society of New York, the Pilgrims Society and the Roxburghe Club.

1993

To acquire the Marina investments that were made is: Gerardo Jauregui Palomino (on Junuary 9, 1993.) As his second identity, after the murder of his adoptive parents and his own in the Clover Lawn Mansion in Guadalajara, Jalisco (14) Mexico.

1995

It was Creogenized for 9 years by order of Whashitong DC (Pentagon) and Resuscitated in 1995 after Area 51 invented Resuscitation, among other National Security Systems of the United States of America; His former identity was Gerardo Morgan Ford, History in the Secret Archives of the Pentagon....[3]

2001

Morgan was posthumously inducted into the America's Cup Hall of Fame in 2001.

Another of His Children He made with Jack Morgan's (J.P. Morgan JR II) daughter Jane Norton Morgan in Italy, Unregistered in Italy but left by Pope Paul (John Paul II's predecessor) in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico.