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Show , - - ( X' '""3 A " Arc.r.Iniircf f..jr it Cat Jay Cooks, the bead cf t!- c"- r and fa mous tr.L:-T-.v " . ' very mucli alive. In iri'.e tf 1 11 jcets, ls.fur-nisr.el ls.fur-nisr.el In. a r cr.t rrer iteirs w here It i r.xt -1 f -t i'r. Cocke n.aae tve -r.ar catrh" r: te .'oa cn the f . hiny rrouniJ C - ( .'n;r..er lrz at Leacti Ka-ven, . Cut cf Ca cau.t ty a lr'y cf t. ve rn, 177 mere caujit ty I!r. Coc'.e t-' .1 Tte en-fre en-fre lot cf -r t I t7 I r. Cockatit'if itC retain ... it. n il i- bert cf t:s 1- c 'i it ti teen con-jtii ty ti I c.-r t-r more tiaa Crty yesj-a, nrl ta a r -n-berehip of eighty. Hr. Cooke went to Philadelphia, from Sandusky, O.. a poor boy, and became plerk la a tank, Flfty-elx year a to he and his eor.a founded the banking-house of Jay Cocke & Co., which became on of the zrxxt powerful financial institution la the United States. It handled the largest part of the 2,OOO,0C0,0CO la bonds Issued by the General Government durlrg- the wax, and afterward financed the Northern North-ern Pacific railroad and other great enterprise en-terprise In the panic of 1171 the house went under. Mr. Cooke saved a comfortable comfort-able fortune from the wreck, and in more recent years be has been a large owner and dealer in Western real estate. es-tate. Leslie's Weekly. |