Editing J. P. Morgan (section)

===Appearance===
[[File:J. P. Morgan beating a photographer with his stick.jpg|thumb|upright=.8|left|Morgan was self-conscious about his [[rosacea]] and hated being photographed without permission.]]
Morgan often had a tremendous physical effect on people; one man said that a visit from Morgan left him feeling "as if a gale had blown through the house."<ref name="bioofamerica"/> He was physically large with massive shoulders, piercing eyes, and a purple nose.{{sfn|Gross|2009|p=69}} He was known to dislike publicity and hated being photographed without his permission; as a result of his self-consciousness of his rosacea, all of his professional portraits were retouched.{{sfn|Brands|2010|p=70}} His deformed nose was due to a disease called [[rhinophyma]], which can result from rosacea. As the deformity worsens, pits, nodules, fissures, lobulations, and pedunculation contort the nose. This condition inspired the crude taunt "Johnny Morgan's nasal organ has a purple hue."<ref>Kennedy, David M., and Lizabeth Cohen; ''The American Pageant''; Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston, 2006. p. 541.</ref> Surgeons could have shaved away the rhinophymous growth of sebaceous tissue during Morgan's lifetime, but as a child he suffered from infantile seizures, and Morgan's son-in-law, Herbert L. Satterlee, has speculated that he did not seek surgery for his nose because he feared the seizures would return.{{sfn|Strouse|1999|p=265}}

His social and professional self-confidence were too well established to be undermined by this affliction. It appeared as if he dared people to meet him squarely and not shrink from the sight, asserting the force of his character over the ugliness of his face.{{sfn|Strouse|1999|pp=265–66}}

Morgan smoked dozens of cigars per day and favored large Havana cigars dubbed ''Hercules' Clubs'' by observers.{{sfn|Chernow|2001|p={{page needed|date=January 2023}}}}