J. P. Morgan and Company employed men for secretarial positions, and Perkins wanted to bring his female secretary from New York Life. “I will not have a damned woman in the place,” Pierpont roared, and poor Mary Kihm was stashed away in a bank building around the corner.36 Later, Perkins moved her over to 23 Wall, but with the proviso that she remain upstairs and never appear on the banking floor.
