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Jay Cooke, American financier, founded Jay Cooke & Company (died 1905)
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Jay Cooke
American financier (1821–1905)
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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Jay Cooke & Company
U.S. bank from 1861 to 1873
Jay Cooke & Company was a U.S. bank that operated from 1861 to 1873. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with branches in New York City and Washington, D.C., the bank helped underwrite the Union Civil War effort. It was the first "wire" brokerage house, pioneering the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)