text: This man supposedly made a bet with the Earl of Lonsdale that Harry Bensley couldn't travel aroundthe world pushing a baby carriage and wearing a knight's helmet.
full_question: This man supposedly made a bet with the Earl of Lonsdale that Harry Bensley couldn't travel aroundthe world pushing a baby carriage and wearing a knight's helmet. This man gave Edward S. Curtis 60,000dollars to finance The North American Indian ethno-photography project. Edward Clark Potter sculptedmane-less lions for this man's library on Madison Avenue and East 36th Street, New York. This co-ownerof the White Star Line (*) merged the Thomas-Houston Company with one founded by Thomas Edison to formGeneral Electric. This American-born man lent the US 65 million dollars to halt the Panic of 1893, and establishedthe first billion dollar company via a merger that created US Steel. For 10 points, name this financier whosenamesake bank merged with Chase Manhattan in 2000. 
first_sentence: This man supposedly made a bet with the Earl of Lonsdale that Harry Bensley couldn't travel aroundthe world pushing a baby carriage and wearing a knight's helmet.
raw_answer: John Pierpont Morgan 