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Family News
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From this page, you can bring up the two family newsletters which have been put out by James H. Harding, great-great-grandson of Jay Cooke, as well as the report on the donation of the Jay Cooke papers to The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in Fremont, Ohio.

If you have any additional information you'd like to share with the rest of the Jay Cooke family, please send it to us.

Cooke Castle (small)
Gibraltar Dock

Newsletter 1 (1996)

Learn how James Harding uncovered important personal papers, effects, and more from Jay Cooke when he visited his Aunt Laura Harding's farm in New Jersey.

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Newsletter 2 (1997)

Read about the cache of treasures Mr. Harding found, renovations to Cooke Castle, and plans for a family reunion at Gibraltar for fall 1998.

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Father and Daughter, c 1899
Excerpt from The Statesman

Read an excerpt from this 1996 issue of the newsletter of Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center: "Jay Cooke Papers Donated to Center."

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