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Jay Cooke - Civil War financier of
the Union
Page entitled : Jay Cooke
and Company succeed best selling war bonds
Content of this page is about :
Cooke and Company become the government's most successful bond marketers,
open a branch in Washington and extend their operations
Extract :
... Cooke's services as an advisor for a pending visit to New York, where he
met leading bankers including August Belmont (the Rothschild's agent in
America), Moses Taylor (president and major stockholder of the City Bank),
John J. Cisco and Levi Parsons Morton. The conservative bankers of the
nation's financial capital were hardly receptive to Secretary Chase's
appeals and offered to take comparably small amounts at heavy discounts.
Only when Chase threatened to ...
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