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The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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His father, John Jenney, was a horn salesman who, according to family legend, was the basis for Harold Hill in The Music Man, the Broadway musical written by fellow Mason City native and family friend Meredith Willson. That’s why, in later years, Kay often referred to Jack as “the son of the Music Man.”
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Throughout the civilized world, from Battery Park to Fulton Street, he was known as a dependable man for a fast tax write-off.
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When talking of the most important things in his life, he once said, “My family, humanity, my country, and the world. And way down here is J.P. Morgan.”