Artists of Abraham Lincoln portraits . thatBay natives familiarly called JayCookes Castle. It is a house ofmystery to the present generation,which knows little or nothing ofthe great man who built it as ahaven of refuge during the stormyjjj days of the Civil War—Jay Cooke, 1 wizard of finance, who raised fori ?President -Lincolns war use $3,000,- . 000,000, a vast sum in tnose aays. In on« of hours of the i war Gen. Grant wrote him: You , arev doing more than all the generals Hn. the Union army, for/without your. aid we could not fight. , .; a fair estimate of his day upon
Artists of Abraham Lincoln portraits . thatBay natives familiarly called JayCookes Castle. It is a house ofmystery to the present generation,which knows little or nothing ofthe great man who built it as ahaven of refuge during the stormyjjj days of the Civil War—Jay Cooke, 1 wizard of finance, who raised fori ?President -Lincolns war use $3,000,- . 000,000, a vast sum in tnose aays. In on« of hours of the i war Gen. Grant wrote him: You , arev doing more than all the generals Hn. the Union army, for/without your. aid we could not fight. , .; a fair estimate of his day upon Jay Cooke, who died nearly a score of years ago. The grim castle he built standB just as he left it, •furnishings and all. Cooke was born Aug. 10, 1821. inSandusky, and at the age of 14 was -r-erking in a general store school days ended, he education by reading and joiningiV;: club, where first, knowledge of the then over-shadowing question of states rightsand slavery. . and friends from Sandusky. T. B. Alexander, a daughter of Each year in May, Jay Cooke went Brown, jr. -with his family to remain three/**One thing about the emb* weeks at his secluded Gibraltar? ments of the castle that int« home, -which within a few years be-| interested me were the pictures came, nationally famous. He re-| adorned the walls of parlor ai turned there late in September or| ception hall. First and mos early in October for an outing of, pressive of all I found a mi similar length and during these* and very fine oil painting of periods the house was filled to over-, ham Lincoln that has hung-; flowing with relatives, business part4 present place since 18G6. wh ners and friends, and their families, was painted for Mr. Cooke by particularly if they shared Cookes Bowser, a famous artist of 4enthusiasm for fishing. At such; period, from an original portr times came Chief Justice Chase,\ Lincoln. - - Senator John Sherman, Gov. and Also the
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