. Jay Cooke, financier of the Civil War . WTmr/A 0 © \^ ^ Fl]. JAY Cookes drawing, from memory, of the stone house in which HE spent his boyhood and when I was born, my father being a great admirerof Chief-Justice Jay, I was given the name of five years afterward another son was born, whommy father proposed to call Fox for another much ad-mired English statesman; but my mother rebelled andinsisted that the newcomer should receive the name ofHenry David, after an uncle and his grandfather bothon the maternal side. Of his early life in Sandusky, Jay Cookes memorywas vivid and retentive.
. Jay Cooke, financier of the Civil War . WTmr/A 0 © \^ ^ Fl]. JAY Cookes drawing, from memory, of the stone house in which HE spent his boyhood and when I was born, my father being a great admirerof Chief-Justice Jay, I was given the name of five years afterward another son was born, whommy father proposed to call Fox for another much ad-mired English statesman; but my mother rebelled andinsisted that the newcomer should receive the name ofHenry David, after an uncle and his grandfather bothon the maternal side. Of his early life in Sandusky, Jay Cookes memorywas vivid and retentive. Many are the anecdotes and 10 JAY COOKE reminiscences of those first years in the Firelands ofOhio. In his Memoirs he writes: At my birth in the town now called Sandusky, theplace was frequently overrun with Indians. Old Ogontzdid himself and us the honor of occasionally sojourningfor a few days on the spot where he had once dwelt inhis wigwam. On such occasions, he was allowed tocamp in our barn and my mother fed him bountifully atthe kitchen table. I was
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