This rose originated with H. Miles of New Jersey, May being the introducer: "Mr. John N. May, whose fame as a rosarian is well known, is to be credited with having introduced ‘Mrs. Pierpont Morgan’ to the notice of the public, he having secured the novelty by purchase from H. Miles of New Jersey, in whose place the sport appeared, on a plant of ‘Madame Cusin’," from American Agriculturist, vol. 57, 1896, p. 109.