J.P. Morgan

Edward Stettinius dropped out of school at sixteen, ground his way through a decade of failed ventures, and eventually ran the Diamond Match Company. Then the Allies hired J.P. Morgan to buy for the First World War, and Morgan hired him.

In August 1869, Jay Gould attempted to seize the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad the same way he did everything else: through bribed judges, forged shares, hired men, and when those failed, a train full of armed roughs sent toward another train full of armed roughs.