Identifier: jaycookefinancie02ober (find matches)
Title: Jay Cooke : financier of the Civil War
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson, 1868-1936
Subjects: Cooke, Jay, 1821-1905 Capitalists and financiers
Publisher: Philadelphia, G.W. Jacobs & Co
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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ropean homes. Whatbefore was offered at $10 an acre now brought $500 andthe industry assumed a considerable importance whichit retains to this day. The islands had an historic interest also, because ofCommodore Perrys famous battle in adjoining waters,and more locally for the exploits of old Ben Napor,the freebooter of the Lake, a kind of pirate who had aschooner and claimed many unusual privileges. Onthe north side of South Bass island lies Gibraltar, aboutseven acres of rock which rises picturesquely above thesurface of the lake, thereby creating a harbor, calledPut-in-Bay, because Perry put in here to repair hisforces before attacking the British fleet in 1813. Heis said to have cut some of the trees for military uses,although many of noble dimensions remain, gainingtheir sustenance through interstices in the rock whichupon one side has been washed relentlessly by the wavesuntil it is quite precipitous, the soft strata crumbling un-der the storms lashing the shore. Some Ohio people
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M ■ JAY COOKE AND MRS. MCMEENSOn the porch of the Lake Erie home FINANCIER OF THE CIVIL WAR 461 formed an association and laid the cornerstone of amonument to Perry upon this islet in 1858, and in 1863Captain John Brown, the son of John Brown of Ossa-watomie, was about to purchase the rock. He couldnot raise the money and Mr. Cooke completed his nego-tiations with St. Jurjo early in 1864, asking his fatherand brother Pitt at once to visit the island and choose asite for the house which he proposed to erect there. Thehighest point of ground was selected and plans werelaid for the prosecution of the work under Pitt Cookesdirection. Labor and material must be brought from Sanduskyand much of them were required for the completion ofthe house on the scale proposed by the financier. It wasbuilt of the evenly stratified rock which underlies San-dusky, its principal feature being a high octagonal towerwith a castellated top. While the work was in progressa Confederate raiding party which ha

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