At the age of 13 he began to work in the banking house founded three years earlier by his father, the Austrian-born American banker Francis Martin Drexel. He was the uncle of Saint Katharine Drexel. He was the brother of Francis Anthony Drexel, and Joseph William Drexel. He was also the first president of the Fairmount Park Art Association (now the Association for Public Art), the nation's first private organization dedicated to integrating public art and urban planning.ĭrexel was born in 1826 in Philadelphia to Francis Martin Drexel (1792–1863) and Catherine Hookey (1795–1870). He also founded Drexel University in 1891.
Morgan & Co.) in New York in 1871 with J. of Philadelphia, he founded Drexel, Morgan & Co (later J.P.
(Septem– June 30, 1893) was an American banker who played a major role in the rise of modern global finance after the American Civil War.
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