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Jesup, Morris K. (Morris Ketchum) 1830-1908
birth: June 21, 1830
death: January 22, 1908
AMNH President
Morris K. Jesup rose from humble origins to become a millionaire in the railroad banking business. He helped found the American Museum of Natural History in 1869 and, as its President, financed the expedition which bears his name, the most ambitious American ethnological expedition of all time