Jay Cooke ✓

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American financier (1821–1905)

About Jay Cooke

Jay Cooke was an American financier who helped finance the Union war effort during the American Civil War and the postwar development of railroads in the northwestern United States. He is generally acknowledged as the first major investment banker in the United States and creator of the first wire house firm.

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The papers of Jay Cooke (1821-1905)

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I was a hunter and fisherman, and many a time I have slipped out into the woods and prairies at 4 a.m. and brought home… Brought
It may be for 20 or 30 years no one has yet been able to decide the length of the life of the black bass. Able

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