Morgan Belmont (March 19, 1892 - September 17, 1953) was head of August Belmont & Co., the banking firm.

Biography

He was born on March 19, 1892, in

Hempstead, New York The Town of Hempstead (also known historically as South Hempstead) is the largest of the three Administrative divisions of New York#Town, towns in Nassau County, New York, Nassau County (alongside North Hempstead, New York, North Hempstead and Oys ...

, to August Belmont Jr. and Bessie Hamilton Morgan. He attended

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

and graduated in 1914. He became a senior partner in the investment house of August Belmont & Co. He retired in 1925. In 1915 he married

Margaret Frances Andrews Margaret Frances Andrews (1894 – November 2, 1945) was a Newport, Rhode Island socialite and prize-winning show dog breeder. Biography She was born in 1894 to Paul A. Andrews in Newport, Rhode Island. In 1915 she married Morgan Belmont (1892 ...

. Her daughter, Margaret Andrews Morgan Belmont, was born in August 1917. His wife, Margaret Frances Andrews, died on November 2, 1945. He died on September 17, 1953, in

East Hampton, New York The Town of East Hampton is located in southeastern Suffolk County, New York, at the eastern end of the South Shore of Long Island. It is the easternmost town in the state of New York. At the time of the 2020 United States census, it had a total ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Belmont, Morgan Harvard University alumni 1892 births 1953 deaths Belmont family People from Hempstead (village), New York American bankers American people of German-Jewish descent