The
Brown Brothers in transportation : packet lines and railroads
… The banker's role is
one of silent support to his customers : merchants, manufacturers and
shippers. Few bankers have thus been recognized for the essential role they
played in the development of commerce and industry and in the organization
of a transportation network, which allowed and fuelled such industry and
commerce. Of course John Pierpont Morgan is remembered for his role in the
great consolidation era of the Gilded Age. And the Mellons are known for
their great wealth in relation to such industrial powerhouses as the
Aluminum Company of America and Gulf Oil. …
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