http://creeksideartgallery.com/blog/kangas-articles-books-2.html Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:27:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://creeksideartgallery.com/blog/kangas-articles-books-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-3 Paul Fusco Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:40:53 +0000 http://creeksideartgallery.com/blog/?p=119#comment-3 Jay Cooke has become a fairly repeated subject around our auction house as of late. We recently auctioned off a collection of postal history that was the correspondence of John Brown Jr., the son of the abolitionist, John Brown Sr. Most of the correspondence was from John Jr. to his wife Wealthy Brown, but there were several pieces of mail from Jay Cooke to Wealthy Brown that were of particular interest to some of his heirs in the Philadelphia area. Jay Cooke and John Brown Sr. & Jr. were very close friends it seems; and Brown influenced Cooke in his thinking about slavery so much that Jay Cooke & Co. became the largest financiers of the Union Army. When Cooke built Gibraltar in 1866, John Brown Jr., living in exile in Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie, was there to help him and repay him for his loyalty to the anti-slavery movement before and after the war. We currently have two pieces of postal history that were written and posted from Gibraltar to one Rice Harper, an influential lawyer and former Ohio Supreme Court judge. We also have several books that were given as gifts and signed by Jay Cooke to Wealthy before John Brown Jr.'s passing in 1895. Jay Cooke was indeed, a very prominent and powerful business man, financier and multi-talented person. To find that he was also involved with this subject matter [waterfowling and decoys as well as folk art] comes as no surprise to me. Jay Cooke has become a fairly repeated subject around our auction house as of late. We recently auctioned off a collection of postal history that was the correspondence of John Brown Jr., the son of the abolitionist, John Brown Sr. Most of the correspondence was from John Jr. to his wife Wealthy Brown, but there were several pieces of mail from Jay Cooke to Wealthy Brown that were of particular interest to some of his heirs in the Philadelphia area. Jay Cooke and John Brown Sr. & Jr. were very close friends it seems; and Brown influenced Cooke in his thinking about slavery so much that Jay Cooke & Co. became the largest financiers of the Union Army. When Cooke built Gibraltar in 1866, John Brown Jr., living in exile in Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie, was there to help him and repay him for his loyalty to the anti-slavery movement before and after the war. We currently have two pieces of postal history that were written and posted from Gibraltar to one Rice Harper, an influential lawyer and former Ohio Supreme Court judge. We also have several books that were given as gifts and signed by Jay Cooke to Wealthy before John Brown Jr.’s passing in 1895. Jay Cooke was indeed, a very prominent and powerful business man, financier and multi-talented person. To find that he was also involved with this subject matter [waterfowling and decoys as well as folk art] comes as no surprise to me.

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