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Morgan John P. Morgan was one who dominated corporate finances. Morgan was a banker and also an art collector. Morgan also made the Electric Company to form General Electric. Morgan also merge steel companies into United States Steel Corporation. Morgan died in Rome, Italy in 1913 at the age of 75 leaving his fortune to his son.

Carnegie Andrew Carnegie was a famous American entrepreneur who was well known for his "empire of steel". He made to great innovations that helped him succeed in the steel business. He used vertical integration to buy out suppliers of materials. His other was the mass production of steel railroad tracks. He eventually died on August 11, 1919 but his legacy lives on through the massive donations he made after he retired.

Rockefeller Rockefeller created most, if not all of the modern large companies that are oil distributors, the most known being Exxon. He stayed on top of a lot of his competition by doing favors to the companies under him who made sure his business ran smoothly. This allowed him to buy out his competitor's either in a take over, or he showed them the company's records, then offered them that they could be brought into his company, or he could watch as their company would go into shambles and pick up the pieces of the company as part of his own. His company grew to be so successful that it was forced to be reconstructed and partitioned into many smaller companies, in order to prevent a single company or individual from monopolizing the entire field.