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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.
Everything about Jay Cooke →- Occupation
- explorer, businessperson
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- August 10, 1821
- Died
- February 16, 1905, February 18, 1905