Text Appearing Before Image: 37, waseducated at Giittingen, and uponthe death in 1890 of his father,Junius S Morgan (who was theformer ))artner and successor of(icorge Peabody), he became alsothe head of the London house ofJ. S. Morgan Co. Personally Mr. Morgan is, undercover of an imperious manner, sympathetic, warm heartedand generous. His benefactions are as extended andliberal as they are unostentatious. His is a unique figure,strong, intellectual, talented, one of which the Metropolismay well be proud. Anthony J. Drexel, senior memberof the firms of Drexel & Co., Drexel, Harjes Co.,and Drexel, Morgan & Co., died at Carlsbad, Bohemia,June 30, 1893. He was born in Philadelphia in 1S26.His father, Francis Martin Drexel, who established thelarge financial institution of which his son was thehead, was a native of Dornbin, in the Austrian Tyrol,and came to America in 1817. He founded the bank-ing house of Drexel Co. in 1837. After his death, in1863, he was succeeded by his sons, A. J. and FrancisA. Drexel. Text Appearing After Image: DREXEL, MORGAN & CO.S BUILDING. lo NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS. THE MILLS BUILDING. The Mills Building, named for the owner, D. O. Mills, isone of the handsomest and best known office buildings onthis continent. It is said to be the most costly officestructure owned by any single individual, having costupwards of $3,500,000. At the time of its erection it out-ranked any similar structure. Its fine architectural effectsare admirably shown off by its situation, its main frontbeing on Broad Street, a thoroughfare actually broad in factas well as in name. It has two other street fronts, one onWall Street and the other on Exchange Place, the threefronts having distinct entrances, all of which lead into the
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