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xv draMatiS PerSoNae, 1901 Robert Bacon, 40, junior partner, J. P. Morgan and Company, New York. In charge of the firm during Morgan’s trip to England and france, April 3–July 4, 1901. George Fisher Baker, 61, cofounder and president, first National Bank of New York. Hill–Morgan ally. Edward Henry Harriman, 53, head of the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific, New York City. James Jerome Hill, 63, head of the Great Northern; purchaser of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; holder of working control with J. P. Morgan of the Northern Pacific, St. Paul. Otto Hermann Kahn, 34, junior partner, Kuhn, Loeb and Company, New York City. Harriman ally. James Robert Keene, 63, Wall Street’s premier manager of speculative stock pools, New York City. Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder. Morgan ally. John Stewart Kennedy, 71, Scots-born railroad financier, London. Hill–Morgan ally. Daniel Scott Lamont, 50, vice president, the Northern Pacific, New York City. former chief of staff to President Cleveland; former U.S. Secretary of War. Hill–Morgan ally. John Pierpont Morgan, 64, head of J. P. Morgan and Company, New York City. World’s most powerful financier. Charles Elliot Perkins, 61, president and later chairman, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Burlington, Iowa. Hill ally. xvi DRAMATIS PERSONAE, 1901 George Walbridge Perkins, 39, junior partner, J. P. Morgan and Company, and vice president, New York Life Insurance Company, New York City. William Avery Rockefeller, 63, Standard Oil Company, New York City. Harriman –Schiff ally. Theodore Roosevelt, 42, President of the United States of America, Washington D.C. Jacob Henry Schiff, 54, head of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, New York City. Second to J. P. Morgan in power and influence in investment banking. Alternately ally of both Harriman and Hill. Donald Alexander Smith (Lord Strathcona), 80, Scots–Canadian, Hudson’s Bay Company leader, an organizer of the Canadian Pacific Railway, London. Hill ally. George Stephen (Lord Mount Stephen), 71, Scots–Canadian, president, Bank of Montreal, London. Helped finance the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Cousin of Donald Alexander Smith. Hill ally. John William Sterling, 57, corporate lawyer, chief counsel to James J. Stillman and National City Bank, New York City. Harriman–Schiff ally. James Jewett Stillman, 51, head of National City Bank of New York (predecessor of today’s Citigroup), New York City. Harriman–Schiff ally. ...

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