The Rev. Eleutheros Jay Cooke
Rector of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 1869-1870
A representative of The Ohio State University who is Special Assistant to the Vice President of Student Affairs gave us the following additional background material.
Eleutheros Jay Cooke was born May 24th, 1847 in Sandusky, Ohio. He was the second son of Pitt and Mary E. Cooke and the nephew of Jay Cooke, Lincoln’s civil war financier. He attended Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, graduating in 1869. He completed his education at the Episcopal Theological School (Cambridge Divinity School, Cambridge, MA). He graduated in 1872 and was ordered deacon that same year by Bishop Eastburn. In 1873 he was ordained into the priesthood at Geneva, NY by Bishop Coxe. After that he had charges in St. Paul, MN and Cleveland, OH. In the latter city he became rector of All Saints’ Church, having that charge from 1892 to 1895 when he elected to take a year’s sabbatical in Europe. Upon his return, he took a parish at Manchester, NH until coming to St. Stephen’s Church, Schuylerville in 1897, where he served until his death from heart failure just after greeting William H. Taft at the railway station in Schenectady, NY on October 27, 1908.