Was J.P. Morgan Jewish

Answer 1

Morgan was a lifelong member of the Episcopal Church, and by 1890 was one of its most influential leaders. In 1861, he married Amelia Sturges,a.k.a Mimi (1835-1862). After her death the next year, he married Frances Louisa Tracy, known as Fanny (1842-1924) on May 31, 1865. They had four children: * John Pierpont Morgan (1867-1943), * Louisa Pierpont Morgan (1866-1946) who married Herbert Livingston Satterlee,[11] * Juliet Morgan (1870-1952), and * Anne Morgan (1873-1952). He often had a tremendous physical effect on people; one man said that a visit from Morgan left him feeling "as if a gale had blown through the house."[12] Morgan was physically large with massive shoulders, piercing eyes and a purple nose, because of a chronic skin disease, rosacea.[13] His grotesquely deformed nose was due to a disease called rhinophyma, which can result from rosacea. As the deformity worsens, pits, nodules, fissures, lobulations, and pedunculation contort the nose. This condition inspired the crude taunt "Johny Morgan's nasal organ has a purple hue."[14] Surgeons could have shaved away the rhinophymous growth of sebaceous tissue during Morgan's lifetime, but as a child Morgan suffered from infantile seizures, and it is suspected that he did not seek surgery for his nose because he feared the seizures would return. His social and professional self-confidence were too well established to be undermined by this affliction. It appeared as if he dared people to meet him squarely and not shrink from the sight, asserting the force of his character over the ugliness of his face.[15] He was known to dislike publicity and hated being photographed; as a result of his self-consciousness of his rosacea, all of his professional portraits were retouched. Morgan smoked dozens of cigars per day and favored large Havana cigars dubbed Hercules' Clubs by observers.[16] His house on Madison Avenue was the first electrically lit private residence in New York. His interest in the new technology was a result of his financing Thomas Edison's Edison Electric Illuminating Company in 1878.[17] J. P. Morgan also owned East Island in Glen Cove, NY where he had a large summer house. J. P. Morgan's yacht Corsair, later bought by the U.S. Government and renamed the USS Gloucester to serve in the Spanish-American War. Photograph by J. S. Johnston.

An avid yachtsman, Morgan owned several sizable yachts. The well-known quote, "If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it" is commonly attributed to Morgan in response to a question about the cost of maintaining a yacht, but the actual wording of the original statement is a bit obscure.[18] Morgan was scheduled to travel on the maiden voyage of RMS Titanic, but canceled at the last minute.[19] The Titanic was owned and operated by the White Star Line, and Morgan had his very own private suite and promenade deck on the ship. Morgan died while traveling abroad in Rome. On March 31, 1913, just shy of his seventy-sixth birthday, Morgan passed away in his sleep at the Grand Hotel. Nearly 4,000 condolence letters were received there overnight and flags on Wall Street flew at half-staff. The Stock Market was also closed for two hours when his body passed through Wall Street.[20] At the time of his death, he had an estate worth $68.3 million ($1.39 billion in today's dollars), of which about $30 million represented his share in the New York and Philadelphia banks. The value of his art collection was estimated at $50 million.[21] His remains were interred in the Cedar Hill Cemetery in his birthplace of Hartford, Connecticut. His son, J. P. Morgan, Jr., inherited the banking business.[22]