. Jay Cooke, financier of the Civil War . on the bay, our sleigh rides withour favorite girls, our dancing school, our spellingschool, and each boy had his own particular had nearly half a dozen. I did not finally marry themall, or even one of them. The dear girls, Pallas, Kate,Susan, Mary, Maria, and Julia, were all good and pretty,but as I left Sandusky in my sixteenth year and neverreturned there except for brief visits, they all desertedme and became happy and buxom wives of good hus-bands. Jay Cookes father prospered in his law business inSandusky. He attained a leading posit
. Jay Cooke, financier of the Civil War . on the bay, our sleigh rides withour favorite girls, our dancing school, our spellingschool, and each boy had his own particular had nearly half a dozen. I did not finally marry themall, or even one of them. The dear girls, Pallas, Kate,Susan, Mary, Maria, and Julia, were all good and pretty,but as I left Sandusky in my sixteenth year and neverreturned there except for brief visits, they all desertedme and became happy and buxom wives of good hus-bands. Jay Cookes father prospered in his law business inSandusky. He attained a leading position at the barin his neighborhood and mingled his practice, whichreached south and west and east and even to Canada,with a love for politics, like the true Ohioan that hesoon came to be. The law in the Ohio of that day wasas rude and picturesque a profession as in Illinois whenLincoln travelled the circuit in his buggy, pulling upat night with his fellow lawyers, the judge, jury, clientsand witnesses, at a country tavern, where some ex-. FINANCIER OF THE CIVIL WAR 15 changed amusing anecdotes while others played cards,drank corn whiskey, and caroused the night Cooke always lived apart from all thisrevelry. He was identified with various temperancesocieties and so strictly did he adhere to the standardsof his Puritan forebears, that he was never known tosmoke a cigar until he was fifty years of age. EarlBill,^ a friend and business associate of the Cooke boysin Sandusky has recorded several interesting reminis-cences of their father.^ He had notable oratoricaltalents, being very ready of speech, and having a largecommand of language and a highly fervid also had shrewdness and tact, as is illustrated byan account of his management of a certain collectionsuit, placed in his hands. Mr. Bill says: It was before Huron County was divided and while Sanduskywas within its jurisdiction. The defendant in the case was anofficer of one of the steamboats which
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