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	Jay Cooke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jay Cooke (August 10, 1821-February 8, 1905), American financier, was born at Sandusky, Ohio, the son of Eleutheros Cooke (1787-1864), a pioneer Ohio lawyer, and Whig member of Congress from that state in 1831-1833.
		Cooke's legacy is honored in the name of Jay Cooke State Park, a large state park located near Duluth in the state of Minnesota.
		Cooke fished for trout there -- he was an avid outdoorsman throughout his life -- and he annually brought gifts such as pocket knives and scissors to the small school established there for the workers' children.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jay_Cooke (933 words)

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		COOKE, JAY (1821–1905), American financier, was born at Sandusky, Ohio, on the loth of August 1821, the son of Eleutheros Cooke (1787–1864), a pioneer Ohio lawyer, and Whig member of Congress from that state in 1831–1833.
		Cooke secured the influence of the American press, appointed 2500 sub-agents, and before the machinery he set in motion could be stopped he had sold $11,000,000 more of bonds than had been authorized, an excess which Congress immediately sanctioned.
		Cooke was noted for his piety, and gave regularly a tenth of his income for religious and charitable purposes.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=17425 (599 words)

	Jay Cooke
		Cooke; but his country was engaged in a deadly strife for the preservation of its liberties; it needed money in vast sums to conduct this gigantic struggle successfully, and if it did not have it promptly, the great sacrifices made already, would prove in vain.
		Cooke had entered upon this work, and he allowed the economical secretary, whose ability, integrity, and patriotism he never questioned, to settle the matter as he believed to be most for the interest of the nation.
		Cooke had rendered him most essential aid, was as yet an experiment, and for the want of some additional pro-visions, subsequently made by Congress, the State banks and many of the large public and private bankers of the great cities were fighting the national banks with great ferocity.
	www.all-biographies.com /business/jay_cooke.htm (3933 words)

	Station Information - Jay Cooke
		Jay Cooke (August 10, 1821-February 18, 1905), American financier, was born at Sandusky, Ohio, the son of Eleutheros Cooke (1787-1864), a pioneer Ohio lawyer, and Whig member of Congress from that state in 1831-1833.
		On January 1, 1861 he opened the private banking house of Jay Cooke & Company in Philadelphia, and quickly floated a war loan of $3,000,000 for the state of Pennsylvania.
		A devout Christian, Cooke regularly gave 10 percent of his income for religious and charitable purposes.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/jay_cooke.html (468 words)

	Eleutheros Cooke
		COOKE, Eleutheros, congressman, born in Granville, New York, 25 December, 1787; died in Sandusky, Ohio, 27 December, 1864.
		Cooke said that if he and his friends were denied protection by that body, he would "flee to the bosom of his constituents," and this expression was taken up by his political opponents and remained a catch-word for some time.
		Cooke subsequently resumed business with success.--Another son, Henry D., journalist, born in Sandusky, Ohio, 23 November, 1825; died in Georgetown, District of Columbia, 29 February, 1881, was graduated at Transylvania University, Kentucky, in 1844, and began the study of the law, but soon turned his attention to writing for the press.
	www.famousamericans.net /eleutheroscooke (653 words)

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		The second son of Eleutheros Cooke, a lawyer and congressman, and his wife, Martha, Jay Cooke was born on 10 August 1821 and reared in Sandusky, Ohio.
		Cooke developed a viable marketing strategy to sell these bonds; he advertised the 5-20s in newspapers and on billboards and also used bankers and insurance agents in small towns to sell them.
		Cooke, who lived in a mansion in Chelten Hills, Pennsylvania, was a religious and a charitable man; he was active in the American Sunday School Union and made donations to Dartmouth, Princeton, and Kenyon Colleges.
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	Lake Erie Coastal Ohio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Cooke was an outdoorsman, and even after leaving Sandusky for the East Coast, he frequented the area and was a member of several hunting clubs, including the Winous Point Shooting Club.
		Cooke says, "From my earliest boyhood I have roamed the waters of Sandusky Bay, and this island region and every portion of it is most familiar to me. I have explored every hunting and fishing ground.
		Cooke was well-connected, and his acquaintances included state governors, bankers, railroad owners, government officials, high-ranking military officers and several U.S. presidents.
	www.coastalohio.com /site.asp?id=214 (431 words)

	Eleutheros Cooke Collection at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
		The Eleutheros Cooke Papers were donated to the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center is 1967 by Charles E. Frohman and by Jeannette Nichols in 1941.
		Born in Middle Granville, New York in 1787, Eleutheros Cooke was educated at Union College in Schenectady.
		Cooke presented the public address for the anniversary of the battle of Fort Meigs before General William Henry Harrison and an audience of 40,000.
	www.rbhayes.org /mssfind/fr_coll/cooke_el.htm (2321 words)

	Jay Cooke
		Cooke was thrust into this controversial position because the nation was spending $1 million a day in the summer of 1861, and increased to $1.25 million during the last quarter of the year[3].
		Cooke sold about one-fourth of all the notes that were sold by agents outside the sub-treasuries (the sub-treasuries were officers of the Treasury in various cities that also sold Treasury Notes)[33].
		Cooke was bound to pay one-eighth to subscription sub-agents, another eighth to traveling agents and for advertising, and other expenses of making the loan as widely and favorably known as possible.
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~gmalacho/jaycooke.htm (6217 words)

	The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
		Jay Cooke, the son of Ohio Congressman Eleutheros Cooke, was born in Sandusky, Ohio, in 1821.
		Jay Cooke's brother Pitt of Sandusky, Ohio, oversaw the construction of Cooke Castle on Gibraltar Island in 1864.
		Cooke, and later his children and grandchildren, recorded the summer's events in The Gibraltar Record, a series of leather-bound volumes.
	www.rbhayes.org /papertrail/cooke.html (678 words)

	Jay Cooke
		Cooke fulfilled a boyhood fantasy when he had his own plush passenger steamer custom built for multiple uses on his beloved lake in 1867.
		While Cooke most likely was a member of other such clubs, he certainly would have enjoyed being a frequent guest at numerous prestigious ones wherever he visited.
		Jay Cooke was honored with a partnership in the banking firm of E.W. Clark And Company in Philadelphia in 1839.
	creeksideartgallery.com /articles/jcooke/jcooke.html (2414 words)

	Cooke, Jay
		Jay Cooke was born on August 10, 1821, in Bloomingville, Ohio.
		Cooke quickly repaid the loan, because the company prospered as it acquired money for the federal government to help finance the Northern war effort during the American Civil War.
		As a result of his contributions, Cooke became known as the "financier of the Civil War." Whilethe nation emerged from the war in severe debt, United States currency was stable, and American citizens and residents of foreign countries all viewed United States bonds as fiscally responsible investments.
	www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=81 (480 words)

	Cooke Castle/Gibraltar Island - The Ohio State University
		Eleutheros Cooke (EC) was the father of Jay Cooke.
		Eleutheros was born on Christmas Day of 1787 in Granville, Washington County, N.Y. He married Martha Carswell (or Caswell), also in Washington County, New York on December 12, 1812.
		Eleutheros had limited educational opportunities during the frontier days of his young adulthood.
	www.osu.edu /cookecastle/text/father.html (70 words)

	University of Delaware: FINDING AID TITLE
		It was organized separately from the Philadelphia firm and, in addition to Jay Cooke and William Moorhead, the firm added Jay’s brother Henry, and Harris C. Fahnestock, an extremely adept financier, as partners.
		Cooke made many efforts to shore up his banking houses and try to settle with his investors without going bankrupt, but bankruptcy was declared November 26, 1870.
		Later in life, Jay Cooke was able to recover much of the estate that he had lost to creditors during the bankruptcy, and a substantial income.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/cooke.htm (1540 words)

	Origin and early life of banker Jay Cooke
		His father, Eleutheros Cooke had studied law and practiced at Granville, Washington county NY, where the family was established before moving West to Ohio.
		When he settled in Sandusky, Eleutheros Cooke was the city's first lawyer.
		In 1826, Eleutheros Cooke obtained from the Ohio legislature the first charter for a railroad in the USA :...
	www.raken.com /american_wealth/bankers_gilded_age/Jay_Cooke_1.asp (189 words)

	CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION: THE MAKING OF MODERN AMERICA Series One: The Papers of Jay Cooke (1821-1905) from the ...
		The core of the Jay Cooke Papers relate to the world of banking and finance, but in the course of their affairs the Cooke family had influence and correspondence that relates to every aspect of American metropolitan society.
		The Cooke financial house with locations in Philadelphia, Washington DC, New York and London administered Government Bonds that funded the Union in the Civil War, were responsible for the foundation of the National Banking system, set up insurance companies and traded in stocks and gold.
		Jay Cooke consistently gave 10% of his profits to the Church and was in regular contact with churchmen and received requests for charity, many of which he acted upon.
	www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk /collections_az/CW-Cooke-1/description.aspx (1806 words)

	Tidbits - Decoy Magazine. Welcome to Decoy Magazine, the premier place for collectors and antique lovers alike. We ...
		Jay Cooke was born in Sandusky, Ohio on August 10, 1821.
		However, well prior to the founding of the club, Cooke was already familiar with the area as he regularly hunted and fished those marshes and waters.
		While Cooke most likely was a member of other clubs, he certainly would have enjoyed being a frequent guest at numerous prestigious ones wherever he went, as was the custom of the day.
	www.decoymag.com /features/tidbits/JayCooke.htm (1873 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Cooke
		Cooke, A. — of Beckley, Raleigh County, W.Va. Republican.
		Cooke, Henry D. — of District of Columbia.
		Cooke, Woodrow — of Oceana, Wyoming County, W.Va. Democrat.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/cooke.html (855 words)

	Item Description
		Born in Sandusky, Ohio, financier Jay Cooke (1821-1905) was the son of Congressman Eleutheros Cooke.
		Cooke developed a system in which bonds could be redeemed in between five and 20 years and investors could buy bonds in low denominations or through installment plans.
		Cooke's strategies were used in subsequent wars as well.
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	Civil War and Reconstruction, Series One, Part 1
		Extract from Henry Cooke’s letter to Jay Cooke dated 12 July 1862 from Washington DC “… Our railroad is progressing finally – on yesterday evening, Wharton and I with Farney and Harding; and one or two other newspaper men tried it for the first time running cars from the capital to Willands and back.
		Jay Cooke was authorized by the new Secretary of the Treasury to secretly buy gold and their own bonds with underwritten government funding to prop up the value of gold and demand for bonds.
		Extract from Henry Cooke’s letter to jay Cooke dated 17 April 1865 from Washington DC “… A violent effort is being made by an immensely strong combination, embracing all the radicals, to oust the President’s cabinet root and branch.
	www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk /digital_guides/civil_war_and_reconstruction_jay_cooke_series_one_part_1/Detailed-Listing.aspx (13324 words)

	Jay Cooke (1821 - 1905) - Find A Grave Memorial
		In the postwar, Cooke became interested in the development of the Northwest and his bank financed the construction of the Northern Pacific Railway which was his undoing.
		The Jay Cooke Elementary School in the Logan section of the city bares his name and further away near Duluth, Minnesota lies the jewel of state parks: The Jay Cooke State Park, originated from land donated by the Northern Pacific Railroad, which Cooke owned.
		However, the Cooke Castle in Ohio is the ultimate; Cooke constructed the many room limestone dwelling on Gibraltar Island located in the harbor of South Bass Island on Lake Erie, which he purchased.
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=225 (636 words)

	Jay Cooke More Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Jay Cooke (August 10, 1821 - February 8, 1905), United States financier, was born at Sandusky, Ohio, the son of Eleutheros Cooke (1787-1864), a pioneer Ohio lawyer, and Whig member of Congress from that state in 1831-1833.
		Louis, Missouri, and in the booking office of a transportation company in Philadelphia ; at the age of eighteen entered the Philadelphia house of E.W. Clark & Company, one of the largest private banking firms in the country.
		(Source: Wall Street by Charles Geisst) A book, Jay Cooke, Financier of the Civil War was published at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1907.
	jay.cooke.en.new-news.info (618 words)

	COOKE, JAY (1821–1905) - Online Information article about COOKE, JAY (1821–1905)
		August 1821, the son of Eleutheros Cooke (1787–1864), a See also:
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		government were pressing, and the sale of the new " seven-thirty " notes by the national banks had been very disappointing, Cooke's services were again secured.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /COM_COR/COOKE_JAY_18211905_.html (897 words)

	Jay Cooke: The Banker from Philadelphia ; Maine Antique Digest, August 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Jay Cooke fulfilled the promise by personally catching all of the fish necessary to abundantly feed the gathering.
		It is assumed that the mansion shown on the hillside beyond the vessel is the summer home of Jay Cooke himself, noted Philadelphia financier and owner of the steamer." (Lipman and Armstrong, p.
		Jay Cooke was only 17 or 18 in 1838 when he joined the banking firm of E.W. Clark and Company in Philadelphia as a clerk and in 1842 was honored with a partnership, only four years later!
	www.maineantiquedigest.com /articles/aug02/jayc0802.htm (2283 words)

	Henry Eleutheros Cooke m. Esther Clarke Russell
		Henry Cooke posed his party on the balcony behind the Castle's front porch.
		The Russells are members of Esther Cooke's family.
		The others are friends of the Cooke sons.
	www.jaycooke.com /genealogy/henrycooke.html (52 words)

	Eleutheros Cooke House in Sandusky, OH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Eleutheros Cooke House in Sandusky, OH museumstuff.com :: museums :: Eleutheros Cooke House
		-- The Eleutheros Cooke House was built by Sandusky's first lawyer and the father of Jay Cooke, the financier of the civil war, in 1843-1844 on what is now a downtown corner.
		PAGE OVERVIEW: -- Provides general information about Eleutheros Cooke House, which may include web site and contact information, as well as description and collections info for those planning to visit Eleutheros Cooke House..
	www.museumstuff.com /rec/org_20020201_12255.html (212 words)

	Welcome to The Cooke House and Garden
		The Old House Guild office is located at the Cooke House Museum.
		The Eleutheros Cooke House was built by Sandusky's first lawyer and the father of Jay Cooke, the financier of the civil war, in 1843-1844 on what is now a downtown corner.
		It was moved to 1415 Columbus Avenue in the latter part of the 1870's and rebuilt.
	www.topinteractive.com /cookehouse (234 words)

	Ohio Historical Society \| Ohio Governors
		In his first congressional campaign he was opposed by the able and energetic Alfred Kelley, but so great was Bartley's popularity in his home town that his own vote was said to be the only one cast for Kelley at Mansfield.
		While in congress Bartley did not often take part in the debates, but he was alert to the interests of his district, which comprised a large part of northern Ohio, including Sandusky and Cleveland.
		In the presidential election of 1824, which was decided in the house of representatives, Bartley, although an ardent supporter of Henry Clay, voted with the Ohio delegation for John Quincy Adams.
	www.ohiohistory.org /onlinedoc/ohgovernment/governors/bartleym.html (924 words)

	Northern Pacific Railroad Company - 1876 signed by Jay Cooke
		This historic document was printed by the National Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of a train traveling in the countryside next to a telegraph line.
		It is also issued to and signed by Jay Cooke on the verso.
		Jay Cooke at first managed the enterprise, but after the Panic of 1873 the railroad company went into bankruptcy.
	www.scripophily.net /noparaco181.html (1174 words)

	Gallery of History Autographs - Auctioneer of Historical Documents, Manuscripts and Autographs
		The signer's father, Eleutheros Cooke, is pictured at left.
		Problems in building the Northern Pacific Railroad (the second transcontinental railroad) forced Cooke to close Jay Cooke and Co., sparking the financial crisis of 1873.
		Lightly creased with folds, light vertical folds at the "y" in Jay and the "Co" and "k" of Cooke.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /html/lotdetails.asp?documentid=265819&start=1&catid=6 (268 words)

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