George Fisher Baker - Media Coverage

Media Coverage

The April 14, 1924, Edition of Time Magazine had this to say about Baker:

True, he is twice as rich as the original J. P. Morgan, having a fortune estimated at 200 millions. True, at the age of 84 when he has retired from many directorates, he dominates half a dozen railroads, several banks, scores of industrial concerns.

The March 26, 1934, Time magazine magazine article called Baker

the richest, most powerful and most taciturn commercial banker in U. S. history

A 1934 article in Newsweek describes him as one of the most imposing figures in banking history. In the November 1994 issue of Worth magazine, in an interview with James Grant, editor of a financial newsletter, Baker is described as the hidebound turn-of-the-century banker who always got his loans repaid and was one of Grant's heroes.

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