tailieunhanh - THE LAST PARTNERSHIPS Inside the Great Wall Street Money Dynasties phần 2

khó khăn nhất của thế kỷ XIX. Cooke được sinh ra ngày 10 tháng 8 năm 1821, tại Sandusky, bang Ohio, Eleutheros Cooke và Martha Carswell. Cookes gốc di cư đến Mỹ từ nước Anh năm 1638 và định cư tại tiểu bang Massachusetts. Cooke sau đó nhớ lại rằng cha của ông gọi ông là Jay, sau khi Chánh án Tòa án Tối cao John Jay, vì một lý do rất cụ thể. | THE LAST PARTNERSHIPS was the most daunting of the nineteenth century. Cooke was born August 10 1821 in Sandusky Ohio to Eleutheros Cooke and Martha Carswell. The original Cookes emigrated to America from Britain in 1638 and settled in Massachusetts. Cooke later recalled that his father named him Jay after Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Jay for a very specific reason. Eleutheros believed that his long first name had cost him an election to the Ohio legislature because voters could not fit his name on the write-in ballot. Determined that the same fate should not befall his progeny he gave them relatively short and sometimes historical first names. Jay s older brother was named Pitt and his younger brother Henry. Two other offspring died early Eleutheros Jr. and Catherine. Originally he proposed to call Henry Fox instead after Charles James Fox a popular British politician at the time. But his mother created such a fuss about a child being named after a British statesman that Eleutheros relented and settled on Henry in keeping with the strong family tradition of fierce American independence. The family had a long record of military service in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. The Carswells had a similar history. Martha Carswell s father was a prisoner of the British in Canada during the War of 1812 so her fondness for the mother country was somewhat Eleutheros Cooke went on to become a member of the Ohio legislature and eventually the House of Representatives. He was a member of the House when Jackson effectively dissolved the second Bank of the United States. Jay Cooke joined Clark and Dodge in 1839 being invited to join by a friend working for the firm. Within a year he had already made his mark as a valued employee being referred to as the counterfeit clerk. Like Clark before him he had become expert in detecting bogus banknotes and his keen eye made him invaluable to Clark Dodge almost from the outset. He also took up a part-time .