Jay Cooke, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from Jay Cooke, Vol. 1: Financier of the Civil War Few introductory explanations and no excuses are required for a biography of Jay Cooke. Soon after the death of the great financier in February, 1905, the letters and papers which he had so carefully and methodically preserved for some future compiler of the records of his life, were placed in my hands by his children, - Jay Cooke, Jr., Mrs. Charles D. Barney, Mrs. John M. Butler, and Rev. Henry E. Cooke. I have tried to be a reverent custodian of them. They filled several old wooden chests at "Eildon, " the home of his daughter, Mrs. Barney, near Philadelphia, where he had so long resided in his last years, after the snows had fallen upon his hair and beard and he was at leisure to ponder the world and its affairs, and to await the summons to another world into which he always looked so confidently. Indeed, much of my work was done in the large room which he occupied and in which he died. Still more chests were found in the basement of the Philadelphia banking house of Charles D. Barney and Company, where Mr. Cooke had had a desk for many years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.