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    Jay Cooke (August 10, 1821 – February 16, 1905) was an American financier who helped finance the Union war effort during the American Civil War and the...
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    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...
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    Jay Cooke State Park is a state park of Minnesota, United States, protecting the lower reaches of the Saint Louis River. The park is located about 10...
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    In September 1873, the US economy entered a crisis. In September 1873, Jay Cooke & Company, a major component of the country's banking establishment, found...
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    The Jay Cooke House (also known as Cooke Castle), is a historic summer estate house on Gibraltar Island, an island in the Lake Erie community of Put-in-Bay...
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    includes skiing and snowmobiling. It is named for Jay Cooke, financier of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Cooke City is near the southeast corner of Park County...
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    the biography by Oberholtzer (who Cooke and his family assisted), Jay Cooke visited Pine Grove Furnace repeatedly. Cooke fished for trout there—he was an...
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    Jay Cooke Junior High School is an historic American junior high school building that is located in the Logan neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
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    backing and promotions of famed New York City / Wall Street financier Jay Cooke, in the summer of 1870 brought the first real momentum to the railway...
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  • Jay Turner-Cooke (born 31 December 2003) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Newcastle United. Turner-Cooke began his...
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  • American naval officer Janet Cooke (born 1954), American journalist, won a Pulitzer Prize for a fabricated story Jay Cooke (1821–1905), American financier...
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  • in Orono, Minnesota. She was held chained to a tree for two nights in Jay Cooke State Park near Duluth. After receiving a ransom payment of $1 million...
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    native Jay Cooke bought the island from Edwards in 1864 and immediately began construction of a 15-room Victorian-Gothic mansion (now known as Cooke Castle)...
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    country and was expected to surpass Chicago in only a few years. When Jay Cooke, a wealthy Philadelphia land speculator, convinced the Lake Superior and...
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    of Philadelphia financier Jay Cooke. A member of the Republican political machine in post-Civil War Washington, D.C., Cooke was appointed first territorial...
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    War. Construction did not recover until after 1867, when the firm of Jay Cooke & Company in Philadelphia dominated in getting American government financing...
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    aligned with Confederate cotton plantations. While Philadelphia banker Jay Cooke and those Wall Street banks with German ties made a bonanza during the...
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    United States dollar, Alexander Hamilton, J.P. Morgan, Nicholas Biddle, Jay Cooke, Jay Gould Interview with Brands on The Money Men, October 29, 2006, C-SPAN...
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    C. Fahnestock, a former partner of railroad financier Jay Cooke in the banking firm of Jay Cooke & Company, in 1877. He also founded Chase National Bank...
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    Tilted beds of the Middle Precambrian Thomson Formation in Jay Cooke State Park...
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    John J. Cooke (born John Joseph Cooke; 1874 – 1921) was an American stage performer and a silent film actor. Cooke was born on October 1, 1874, in Manhattan...
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    Panic of 1873 forced the Northern Pacific Railway's backers, such as Jay Cooke, into bankruptcy, which halted construction of the railroad through Lakota...
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    Harriette Jay Cooke (December 1, 1829 – July 27, 1914) was an American professor and women's rights pioneer. She was the first known female professor...
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    Samuel Cooke (January 22, 1931  – December 11, 1964) was an American singer and songwriter. Considered one of the most influential soul artists of all...
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    use Jay Cooke & Company as one of their bank's depositories. However, in 1873 Cooke & Company went bankrupt, a major cause of the Panic of 1873. Cooke then...
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  • Philadelphia financier Jay Cooke established the first modern American investment bank during the Civil War era. However, private banks had been providing...
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    estate, fur) – New York Andrew Carnegie (steel) – Pittsburgh and New York Jay Cooke (finance) – Philadelphia Charles Crocker (railroads) – California Edward...
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    was 948 at the 2020 census. The town sits on the northwestern edge of Jay Cooke State Park. Minnesota State Highways 45 and 210 and County Roads 1 and...
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  • Jay Cook may refer to: Jay Cook (murder victim) Jay Cooke, American financier This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name...
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    population was 428 at the 2020 census. Wrenshall is located just south of Jay Cooke State Park. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has...
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