Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1913 — J. PIERPONT MORGAN DIED IN ROME HOTEL [ARTICLE]

J. PIERPONT MORGAN DIED IN ROME HOTEL

Moat Prominent Figure in Financial World Passed Away While Visiting Abroad. John Pierpont Morgan, the American financier, died shortly after noon Monday in a hotel in Rome, Italy. He had been an invalid for some time and his trip abroadfwas made in hope that he would be re-, juvenated. He was almost 76 years of age. The body will be embalmed and sent to the United States for burial. - • J. Pierpont Morgan graduated from the Boston high school and for two years studied at Goettingen, Germany. At 21 he embarked in his career as a banker.