The History of Terrorism
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Metropolitan Museum of Art AKA "The Met"
George Fisher Baker
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George Fisher Baker
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1844-Today New York Yacht Club (NYYC)
Aftermath of the American Civil War
American bankers
American financiers
American philanthropists
Baker family
Businesspeople from Troy, New York
Harvard Business School people
Jekyll Island Club members
John Thompson (banker)
Metropolitan Museum of Art AKA "The Met"
Philanthropists from New York (state)
Post Civil War
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...and it also "had its hands in other fields'the railroads (where...some 30,000 miles of railway were controlled), anthracite coal (where from two-thirds to three-quarters of the entire shipment was in Morgan hands)."
1863-? First National Bank of the City of New York
1877 George Fisher Baker became president of the bank after the Thompsons left the bank in the hands of Harris C. Fahnestock, a former partner of railroad financier Jay Cooke in the banking firm of Jay Cooke & Company, in 1877.
1924 Baker provided much of the initial funding for Harvard Business School with a 1924 grant of $5 million, for which Harvard gave him an honorary doctorate and named the library after him.
1924 Time - True, he is twice as rich as the original J. P. Morgan, having a fortune estimated at 200 millions. True, at the age of 84 when he has retired from many directorates, he dominates half a dozen railroads, several banks, scores of industrial conc
1931 George Fisher Baker made a huge fortune after the Civil War in railroads and banking, and at his death he was estimated to be the third richest man in the United States, after Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller.
Baker was "closely associated with" the late 19th-century and early 20th-century U.S. robber-baron, monopolist and Wall Street banker J.P. Morgan "in his manifold enterprises," according to Richard Boyer and Herbert Morais's 1955 book, Labor's Untold Story
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Edith Brevoort Baker
George Fisher Baker Jr.
George Fisher Baker Scholars
Harvard Business School
Morgan and Associates Monopolies and Super Trusts
The same book also noted that "Morgan and associates organized super-trusts in steel (U.S. Steel), shipping (International Mercantile Marine), and agricultural machinery (International Harvester)" ...
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Florence Tucker Baker
J.P. Morgan