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Show w . - - - . I ASSUMES BIG RESPONSIBILITIES' J. P. Morgan. Jr..; jfias succeeded his father in the management of the immense Morgan interests. He is the1 only son and now controls a for-'tune for-'tune estimated at between $300,000.. 000 and J500, 000.000. The ' title, J. p. Morgan & Co., will' be retained. The son is by no means a novice at directing financial enterprises, nor is" he so yqun,g as to cause any anxiety as to possible rashne'ss. Mr. Morgan, Jr.,' is forty-six years old. Ho is a large man physically and mentally. He weighs 200 pounds and is an athlete. And, what is probably most essential, he has had his father's fath-er's careful training. Already the future head of the greatest financial interests controlled by an American firm is director in many corporations. When H. H. Rogers died in 1909 the younger Morgan was elected his successor in the United States Steel corporation. The same year he- became a mem ber of the directorate of the National City bank of New York, filling the vacancy caused by the death of E. H. Harriman. This bank, controlled by Standard Oil Interests, is one of the largest In the country. Young Morgan was born in 1867. He graduated from Harvard In 1SS9 and married in 1890. As soon as his school days were over he began his apprenticeship under his father's direction in the New York' office. He had no bad habits or frivolities, and was always very methodical. Among the clerks he was always popular because of his democratic ways. |