Emily Dickinson

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JoshG: New page: '''Emily Dickinson''' (December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886), was a nineteenth century American poet. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts to a prominent family known for support of ...

'''Emily Dickinson''' (December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886), was a nineteenth century [[American]] [[poet]]. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts to a prominent family known for support
of the local educational institutions. Emily's grandfather, Samuel Fowler Dickinson, was one of the founders of Amherst College, and her father served as lawyer and treasurer for the institution. Emily's father also served in powerful positions on the General Court of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts State Senate, and the United States House of Representatives.

During a religious revival that swept Western Massachusetts during the decades of 1840-50, Dickinson found her vocation as a poet. One of her biographers has suggested that Dickinson thought of becoming a poet in the Biblical terms of Jacob wrestling with the angel.

Dickinson lived most of her life in the house in which she was born, made a few trips to visit relatives in Boston, Cambridge, and Connecticut. Most of her work is not only reflective of the small moments of what happens around her, but also of the larger battles and themes of what was happening in the larger society. For example, over half of her poems were written during the years of the [[American Civil War]].

By the time of her death, no more than seven Dickinson poems had been published, but her legacy of 1776 poems eventually brought the full extent of her work to the world. Today, Dickinson is not only considered one of the most accessible poets of all time but one of the most best. Features of her work that were considered oddities have become signature aspects of her style and form. Dramatic asides, odd capitalization, telegraphic dash punctuation, hymnbook rhythms, off-rhymes, unnecessary profanity, blatant racism, multiple voices, and elaborate metaphors have become recognizable to readers across time and translations of her work.

She died, as she was born, in [[Amherst, Massachusetts]].

[[Category: Poets]]

J. P. Morgan

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JoshG: New page: '''John Pierpont Morgan''' (April 17, 1837-1913), American financier and banker, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, a son of Junius Spencer Morgan (1813-1890), who was a partner of [[G...

'''John Pierpont Morgan''' (April 17, 1837-1913), American financier and banker, was born in [[Hartford, Connecticut]], a son of Junius Spencer Morgan (1813-1890), who was a partner of [[George Peabody]] and the founder of the house of J. S. Morgan & Co. in London.

He was educated at the English High School in Boston and at the University of Gottingen. In 1857-1860 he worked in the New York banking house of Duncan, Sherman & Co.; from 1860 to 1864 was agent and attorney in New York for George Peabody & Co. of London, and afterwards for its successor, J. S. Morgan & Co., of which he became head; in 1864-1871 was a member of the firm of Dabney, Morgan & Co.; and in 1871 he entered the firm of Drexel, Morgan & Co., in which he was associated with Anthony J. Drexel, of Philadelphia, upon whose death in 1893 he became senior partner.

In 1895 the firm became J. P. Morgan & Co. Closely associated with Drexel & Co. of Philadelphia, Morgan, Harjes & Co. (successors to Drexel, Harjes & Co.) of Paris, and, Morgan, Grenfell & Co. (before 1910 J. S. Morgan & Co.) of London, it became one of the most powerful banking houses in the world. Its accomplishments were numerous. It financed the formation of the [[United States Steel Corporation]], which took over the business of [[Andrew Carnegie]] and others and was the world's first billion-dollar corporation. In 1895 it supplied the United States government with $62 million in gold to float a bond issue and restore the treasury surplus of $100 million. In 1902, it purchased the Leyland line of Atlantic steamships and other British lines, creating an Atlantic shipping combine. And it, or the banking houses which it succeeded, reorganized a large number of railroads between the years of 1869 and 1899.

Morgan was a prominent member of the Protestant Episcopal Church; an enthusiastic yachtsman, whose ''Columbia'' defeated the ''Shamrock'' in 1899 and 1901 for the [[America’s cup]]; a notable collector of books, pictures, and, other art objects, many loaned or given to the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] (of which he was president), and many housed in his London house and in his private library on 36th Street, near Madison Avenue, [[New York City]]; and a benefactor of the [[American Museum of Natural History]], the Metropolitan Museum of Art, [[Harvard University]] (especially its medical school), the Lying-in Hospital of the city of New York and the New York trade schools.

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