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Albert Gordon, Who Rebuilt Kidder Peabody, Dies at 107  

Albert H. Gordon, who helped pick up the pieces of a shattered Kidder Peabody after the 1929 Wall Street crash and built the firm into what Forbes magazine called "a minor powerhouse on Wall Street," died Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 107.

His son John announced the death.

Mr. Gordon lived to become an éminence grise of the investment community, began running marathons in his 80s and at his death was the oldest graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Business School, according to Harvard Magazine. In 1960, Fortune magazine listed Mr. Gordon as one of the 10 most powerful men on Wall Street and as the financial community's most successful underwriter and salesman. . . .

In the 1960s and 70s, Mr. Gordon offered cash rewards to employees who quit smoking.

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