Jay Cooke & Co.
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Name (Latin)
Jay Cooke & Co.
Other forms of name
Jay Cooke and Company
Jay Cooke & Company
Jay Cooke and Co
Cooke & Co
Date of establishment
1861
Date of termination
1873
Type of corporate body
Banks and banking
Place of residence/headquarters
Philadelphia (Pa.)
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Sources of Information
- 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. ( (Wikipedia, viewed January 30, 2024) )
- Thomson, David K. Bonds of war, 2022:back cover (the Philadelphia financial house of Jay Cooke & Company, entrusted by the US government with an unprecedented sale of bonds to finance the Union war effort in the early days of the American Civil War.) page [62] (Jay Cooke & Co)
- How to organize a national ... 1863:t.p. (Jay Cooke & Co., bankers)
- Office of Jay Cooke & Co. Subscription agents for national loan, No. 114 South Third Street. Philadelphia, August 12th, 1871, 1871.
Wikipedia description:
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 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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