The Pilgrims network
Over the years more and more influential persons joined the Pilgrims Society, including virtually all the well known bankers, robber barons and their associates. Going through membership lists of the Pilgrims of the United States you'll find the following families:
Astor Duke Mellon Stillman Aldrich (Copeland) Du Pont Meyer Vanderbilt Belmont Gould Morgan Warburg Baker Harkness Peabody Watson Carnegie Harriman Pyne Whitney Dillon Lamont Reynolds * Dodge Lodge Rockefeller * Drexel Loeb Schiff *
Within the ranks of the British Pilgrims one comes across a great many Barons, Viscounts, Earls, Marquisses, and Dukes. Members of the British royal family have been patrons of the Pilgrims Society since its inception and regularly attend meetings. Here also well known banking families as Baring, Hambro, Harcourt, Keswick, Rothschild, Kleinwort, Loeb, and Warburg can be found, just as the heads of Barclays and the British managers of U.S. banks as Chase Manhattan and J. P. Morgan.
At the moment of this writing the membership list compiled by PEHI contains 1496 names, the vast majority of them from the United States (rough estimate: about 82% or 1227). Analyzing the biographies of these members doesn't just show that the Pilgrims are part of the WASP elite - they are the WASP elite. The following banks, law firms, and insurance companies have been headed by Pilgrims Society members - usually for generations:
Banks
American Securities Corp. Federal Reserve Kidder, Peabody and Co. Morgan Joseph & Co. Inc. Banker's Trust Fidelity International Trust Kleinwort Benson New York Savings Bank Bank of England Fifth Avenue Bank Kuhn, Loeb & Co. N.M. Rothschild & Sons Barclays Bank First Boston Corporation Lazard Oppenheimer & Co. Barings Bank First National Bank Lehman Brothers Paine, Webber Blackstone Group US/UK Fourth Nat. Bank of N.Y. Loeb, Rhoades & Co. Rockefeller Center, Inc. Bowery Savings Bank Goldman Sachs Manufacturers Hanover Rockefeller Family & Ass. Brown Brothers Harriman Gotham National Bank Marine Midland Salomon Brothers Bullock Fund Hambro Mellon Bank S.G. Warburg Chase National Bank Harriman National Bank J. P. Morgan & Co. Shearson Loeb Rhoades Chase Manhattan US/UK International Banking Corp. J. P. Morgan Chase U.S. Trust Corp. of N.Y. Chemical Bank Irving Trust Morgan Grenfell (UK) * Citibank J. G. White & Co. Morgan Guaranty Trust * Drexel & Co. J. Henry Schroder & Co. Morgan Stanley *
Law firms and insurance companies
Breed, Abbott & Morgan Carter, Ledyard & Milburn Coudert Brothers Cravath, Swaine & Moore Davis, Polk & Wardwell Debevoise & Plimpton Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy Herbert Oppenheimer Nathan & Vandyk Shearman & Sterling Sullivan & Cromwell Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts AIG Equitable Life Assurance Society Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Mutual Life Insurance Life Insurance Co. Lloyds of London Royal Globe Insurance Group
Other businesses
Chrysler Forbes * ICI R.J. Reynolds Corning Glass Works General Electric Int. Nickel Co. of Canada Rio Tinto De Beers (Anglo-Am Corp) General Motors Jardine Matheson U.S. Steel Dodge IBM Phelps-Dodge W.R. Grace & Co.
* other media companies not mentioned here
Looking at these tables, it is clear that the major banks of New York and London have been very prominent in the Pilgrims Society, closely followed by a group of influential law firms and insurance companies. A number of corporations have also had a considerable presence in the Pilgrims, comparable to some of the law firms and smaller banks. The most prominent of these might well be IBM, of the Watson family - but the founders and owners of Chrysler, Dodge, Jardine Matheson, W.R. Grace & Co., Reynolds, Corning Glass, and Forbes have all been Pilgrims. A vast range of other corporations have been represented by Pilgrims, but do not appear to have been part of the core of the Anglo-American establishment.
Media (and Operation Mockingbird)
Except for Forbes, we deliberately left out large media companies in this last section, as their presence in the Pilgrims Society and influence on society deserves to be discussed separately.
The New York Times and Time Magazine have been the news publications the most intimately tied to to the Pilgrims of the United States over the years. Since 1896 the New York Times has been owned by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, members of which have been generational members of the Pilgrims since the very beginning. Orvil E. Dryfoos, who married a daughter of Arthur Sulzberger and rose to president of the New York Times in 1957 and publisher in 1961, was another member of the Pilgrims. A number of outside Pilgrims held senior positions in the New York Times too over the years. Among them were John William Harding, George McAneny, Philip Du Val, Cyrus Vance and Charles H. Price II.
Impressive names saved by taxpayer dollars.Citibank,JP Morgan,Chemical Bank,Salmon Brothers,Goldman Sachs. And, Insurance Companies AIG,Metro Life.And those auto loans to Chrysler and General Motors!
They made sure that the Pilgrims weren't going to sink with their ships!
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