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...John Pierpont Morgan, Junius Spencer Morgan, Mrs. Louise Converse Morgan, John Rogers Maxwell, Nannie Inman Brokaw, and 25 other rich Long Islanders obtained orders requiring Tax Commissioner John F. Neafsey to show cause why they should not get their taxes lowered in Nassau and Kings counties. Last year John Pierpont Morgan obtained a $32,000 tax reduction on his Glen Cove properties. Declared Commis sioner Neafsey: "[this fight] to prevent the millionaires, who own two-thirds of the town^from putting the burden of tax ation on the small property owners . . . [will be carried] to the highest court...
Charles Allerton Coolidge '81, of Boston, has been chosen president of the Harvard Alumni Association for the current year, to succeed J. Pierpont Morgan '89, of New York City, according to an announcement made public today. Nathan Hayward '95, A. G. Thacher '97, and H. C. Clark '11 also have been made officers of the Association...
Born. To Mr. & Mrs. Henry Sturgis (Catherine Adams) Morgan of Manhattan: their fourth son. No. 16 grandchild for John Pierpont Morgan, No. 4 for Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams; at Locust Valley...
...John Pierpont Morgan presented to the Watford Peace 'Memorial Hospital (near Wall Hall, the Morgan residence at Watford, England) 130 bottles of champagne. Hospital officials were flustered; they prescribe champagne only for seasickness, and Watford is 70 mi. inland. They wrote twice to a local wine merchant, once asking him to buy the champagne outright, once to have it credited against the hospital's brandy account. The champagne remained in the hospital's cellar...
Beck Hall is one of Harvard's oldest dormitories and numbers among its former residents such well-known men as Theodore Roosevelt '08, Pierpont Morgan '89, John Jacob Astor, and Larz Anderson...