What are some examples of J.P Morgan's philanthropy?

Answer 1

His gifts include:

* $2,000,000 to the University of the South (1902);
* $1,000,000 to the Harvard Medical school;
* $1,350,000 for a lying-in hospital near St. George's church, N.Y.;
* $500,000 to St. John's cathedral;
* $100,000 to the Young Men's Christian association;
* $500,000 to the Loomis hespital for consumptives;
* $100,000 for a library in Holyoke, Mass.;
* $125,000 for preserving the palisades along the Hudson river;
* $300,000 for a new Parish house and rectory for St. George's church;
* $500,000 to the New York Trades Training school

and many other large benefactions. He contributed largely to the Galveston Relief fund; to the Queen Victoria memorial fund, and presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Art a rare collection of Greek ornaments valued at $200,000. He was one of the chief patrons in the international yachting contests for the America's cup; was commodore of the New York yacht club, and owner of the steam-yacht Corsair, one of the largest and finest pleasure boats afloat, which he presented to the government for use during the war with Spain. He was twice married: first, Oct. 7, 1861, to Amelia, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Pemberton (Cody) Sturges, of New York; and secondly, May 31, 1865, to Frances Louisa, daughter of Charles and Louisa (Kirkland) Stacy. In January, 1902, he purchased for $500,000 Raphael's famous "Madonna of St. Anthony of Padua" from the heirs of King Ferdinand II. of Naples; and in the same year he was made an officer of the Legion of Honor of France.

Answer 2

Jp Morgan Philanthropy

Answer 3

He donated quiet a bit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Morgan was 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 in New York City. His son, J. P. Morgan, Jr., created the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1924 as a memorial to his father and kept Belle da Costa Greene, his father's private librarian, as its first director.[14]

Morgan was a benefactor of the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Groton School, Harvard University (especially its medical school), the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York and the New York trade schools.

Morgan was also a patron to photographer Edward S. Curtis, offering Curtis $75,000 in 1906, for a series on the Native Americans.

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