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Rev. John Pierpont (1785-1866) was born at Litchfield, South Farms, Con- necticut to James and Elizabeth Collins Pierpont. He married his fourth cousin Mary Sheldon Lord in 1810. They lived first in Litch- field then moved to Newburyport, Massachusetts. In 1819 he accepted a call to Hollis street church in Boston, Massachusetts after finish- ing the Divinity School in Cambridge. Mary Sheldon Lord (1787-1855) was a daughter of Lynde Lord, Esq., and Mary Lyman. She died in Med- ford, Massachusetts. This couple had six children. Descendants live in New York, Massachusetts, Georgia, Connecticut and elsewhere.

Influential banker and patron of the arts Otto Kahn (1867-1934) played a leading role in reorganizing the U.S. railroad systems, supporting the Allied war effort in World War I, and promoting New York arts and artists. In this cultural biography Theresa Collins examines Kahn's banking and patronage activities to show how he pointedly sought to fuse money, art, and geopolitics.