No one will ever erect a statue honoring Jeremiah G. Hamilton. As an African American broker in the mid-1800s, Hamilton was part of no one’s usable past: Wall Street in that time was completely ...

Jeremiah Hamilton was America’s first black millionaire, accomplishing that feat around the time of the Civil War, when most among New York City’s population of African-Americans were treated ...

Not only was Jeremiah G. Hamilton Wall Street’s first black millionaire, he was one of the earliest New Yorkers to have the word used to describe him. His depredations earned him the nickname of ...