1. United States financier who marketed Union bonds to finance the American Civil War; the failure of his bank resulted in a financial panic in 1873 (1821-1905); [syn: Cooke, Jay Cooke]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Jay Cooke
n 1: United States financier who marketed Union bonds to finance
the American Civil War; the failure of his bank resulted in
a financial panic in 1873 (1821-1905) [syn: Cooke, Jay
Cooke]