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Gould Family
The Gould family is a wealthy American family that came to prominence in the late 19th century. The family's fortune was primarily earned through a railroad empire built by Jay Gould, Jason "Jay" Gould, a notorious Robber baron (industrialist), "robber baron" during the Gilded Age. At its height, this network comprised the Denver and Rio Grande Railway, Denver & Rio Grande, Missouri Pacific Railroad, Missouri Pacific, Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (1916–1988), Wheeling & Lake Erie, Wabash Railroad, Wabash, Texas Pacific Railroad, Texas Pacific, Western Maryland Railroad, Western Maryland and International-Great Northern Railroad, International-Great Northern railroads among others. By the early 20th century, the Goulds lost control over virtually all these railroads largely due to mismanagement by Jay's son, George Jay Gould. Despite losing the source of much of their wealth, subsequent generations of the family continued to be involved in business, philanthropy, and politics. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Gould
Jason Gould (; May 27, 1836 – December 2, 1892) was an American railroad magnate and financial speculator who founded the Gould family, Gould business dynasty. He is generally identified as one of the Robber baron (industrialist), robber barons of the Gilded Age. His sharp and often unscrupulous business practices made him one of the wealthiest men of the late nineteenth century. Gould was an unpopular figure during his life and remains controversial. Early life and education Gould was born in Roxbury, New York, to Mary More (1798–1841) and John Burr Gould (1792–1866). His maternal grandfather, Alexander T. More, was a businessman, and his great-grandfather, John More, was a Scottish immigrant who founded the town of Moresville, New York. Gould, however, grew up in poverty and had to work at his family's small dairy farm. Gould studied at the Hobart Academy in Hobart, New York, paying his way by bookkeeping. As a young boy, he decided that he wanted nothing to do with far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wabash Railroad
The Wabash Railroad was a Class I railroad that operated in the mid-central United States. It served a large area, including track in the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, and Missouri and the province of Ontario. Its primary connections included Chicago, Illinois; Kansas City, Missouri; Detroit, Michigan; Buffalo, New York; St. Louis, Missouri; and Toledo, Ohio. The Wabash's major freight traffic advantage was the direct line from Kansas City to Detroit, without going through St. Louis or Chicago. Despite being merged into the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W) in 1964, the Wabash company continued to exist on paper until the N&W merged into the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) in 1982. At the end of 1960 Wabash operated 2,423 miles of road on 4,311 miles of track, not including Ann Arbor Railroad (1895–1976), the Ann Arbor Railroad and the New Jersey, Indiana and Illinois Railroad; that year it reported 6,407 million net ton-miles of revenue freight and 164& ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Jay Gould II
George Jay Gould II (March 28, 1896 – June 7, 1963) was an American lawyer and oil company executive. Early life Gould was born on March 28, 1896, in Manhattan, New York City. He was one of seven children born to millionaire George Jay Gould I (1864–1923) and former actress Edith Kingdon Gould (1864–1921). Among his siblings were Kingdon Gould Sr., Jay Gould II, Marjorie Gwynne Gould (wife of Anthony Joseph Drexel III), Helen Vivien Gould (wife of John Beresford, 5th Baron Decies), Edith Catherine Gould, and Gloria Gould (wife of Henry A. Bishop II and Wallace McFarlane Barker). His namesake father was the eldest son of the former Helen Day Miller and Jay Gould, a leading American railroad developer and speculator who has been referred to as one of the ruthless robber barons of the Gilded Age, whose success at business made him one of the richest men of his era. His aunt, Anna Gould, was married to two European aristocrats, Boni de Castellane (the elder son and heir a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Beresford, 6th Baron Decies
Arthur George Marcus Douglas de la Poer Beresford, 6th Baron Decies DFC (15 April 1915 – 7 November 1992) was an Anglo-Irish hereditary peer and soldier. Early life Beresford was born on 15 April 1915. He was the youngest of three children born to John Beresford, 5th Baron Decies (1866–1944), aide-de-camp to the Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, and Helen Vivien Gould (1893–1931). From his parents marriage, he had two older sisters, Eileen Vivian de la Poer Horsley-Beresford and Catherine Moya Beresford. After his mother's death in 1931, his father married another American heiress, Elizabeth Wharton Drexel (widow of society leader Harry Lehr), in 1936. His paternal grandparents were William Beresford, 3rd Baron Decies and the former Catherine Anne Dent. His maternal grandparents were American railroad tycoon George Jay Gould I and, his wife, former actress Edith Kingdon. Among his extended family were uncles William Beresford, 4th Baron Decies and cricketer Seton Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Beresford, Baroness Decies
Helen Vivien Beresford, Baroness Decies, formerly Helen Vivien Gould (May 2, 1893 – February 3, 1931) was an American socialite and philanthropist. She was one of the two Jay Gould descendants to marry into European aristocracy. Early life Helen Vivien Gould was born on May 2, 1893, in the United States. She was the fourth of seven children born to George Jay Gould (1864–1923), a railroad executive; and Edith Kingdon (1864–1921), an actress. Among her siblings were Kingdon Gould I, Marjorie Gould Drexel, Marjorie Gwynne Gould, Jay Gould II, Edith Catherine Gould, and Gloria Gould. Her paternal grandparents were Jay Gould, a leading American railroad developer and speculator known as one of the ruthless Robber baron (industrialist), robber barons of the Gilded Age, and Helen Day (née Miller) Gould. Personal life On February 7, 1911, Helen married John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, 5th Baron Decies, John Graham Hope de la Poer Horsley Beresford (1866–1944), the 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjorie Gould Drexel
Marjorie Gwynne Drexel ( Gould (September 11, 1891 – November 29, 1955) was an American heiress, socialite and member of the wealthy Gould family. Early life Marjorie was born in Manhattan on September 11, 1891. She was the eldest daughter of seven children born to millionaire George Jay Gould I (1864–1923) and actress Edith Kingdon Gould (1864–1921). Among her siblings were Kingdon Gould Sr., Jay Gould II, Helen Vivien Gould (wife of John Beresford, 5th Baron Decies), George Jay Gould II, Edith Catherine Gould (later Lady MacNeal), and Gloria Gould (wife of Henry A. Bishop II and Wallace McFarlane Barker). Her father was the eldest son of the former Helen Day Miller and Jay Gould, a leading American railroad developer and speculator who has been referred to as one of the ruthless robber barons of the Gilded Age, whose success at business made him one of the richest men of his era. Her aunt, Anna Gould, was married to two European aristocrats, Boni de Castellane (the el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Gould II
Jay Gould II (September 1, 1888 – January 26, 1935) was an American real tennis player and a grandson of the railroad magnate Jay Gould. He was the world champion (1914–1916) and the Olympic gold medalist (London, 1908, then under the name jeu de paume). He held the U.S. Amateur Championship title continuously from 1906 to 1925, winning 18 times (no tournaments were held during the U.S. involvement in World ). During the same period, he never lost a set to an American amateur, and lost only one singles match, to English champion E.M. Baerlein. The court built for him by his father at the family's Georgian Court estate was restored in 2005. Jay is the great-great-uncle of US Olympic cyclist Georgia Gould, who qualified to race in the London 2012 Olympiad. Biography He was born on September 1, 1888, to George Jay Gould. He was educated at Columbia College and was a member of the class of 1911. He was already a national and world champion in court tennis as a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Kingdon Gould
Edith Kingdon Gould Martin (August 20, 1920 – August 17, 2004) was an American socialite, linguist, actress, and poet. Birth She was the daughter of financier Kingdon Gould Sr., granddaughter of financier George Jay Gould, and great-granddaughter of Jay Gould the robber baron. She appeared as an actress in the 1946 Broadway production of Agatha Christie's play '' Hidden Horizon''. Poet Time writes on December 24, 1934: Out just in time to make a fine Christmas present for her schoolmates at Miss Hewitt's Classes was a thin, blue & white book of Poems by Edith Kingdon Gould, 14, great-granddaughter of Jay Gould. On the day it was published Manhattan newshawks called at the Goulds' Manhattan penthouse, found the butler and Miss Edith, a well-poised girl with bangs and saucer eyes, at home. Said Poet Gould. "I suppose I must get used to this if I am going to be any good with my verse." Thereupon she rattled solemnly: "I have been writing poetry since I was 6. It's funny that I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdon Gould Sr
Kingdon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * John Abernethy Kingdon (1828–1906), English historian and surgeon * Tully Kingdon (1835–1907), English Anglican bishop *William Kingdon Clifford FRS (1845–1879), English mathematician and philosopher * Edith Kingdon (1864–1921), American actress * Frank Kingdon-Ward (1885–1958), English botanist, explorer, plant collector and author * Frank Kingdon (1894–1972), American activist and educator * Billy Kingdon (1907–1977), English footballer *Edith Kingdon Gould (1920–2004), American socialite, linguist, actress, and poet * Guy Kingdon Natusch (born 1921), New Zealand architect *Jonathan Kingdon Jonathan Kingdon (born 1935 in Tanzania) is a zoologist, science author, and artist; a research associate at the University of Oxford. He focuses on taxonomic illustration and evolution of the mammals of Africa. He is a contributor to The Oxfor ... (born 1935), Tanzanian-British zoologist * John W. Kingdon (bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Gould
Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrews, Hebrew Patriarchs (Bible), patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father who began the Covenant (biblical), covenantal relationship between the Jewish people and God in Judaism, God; in Christianity, he is the spiritual progenitor of all believers, whether Jewish or gentile, non-Jewish; and Abraham in Islam, in Islam, he is a link in the Prophets and messengers in Islam, chain of Islamic prophets that begins with Adam in Islam, Adam and culminates in Muhammad. Abraham is also revered in other Abrahamic religions such as the Baháʼí Faith and the Druze, Druze faith. The story of the life of Abraham, as told in the narrative of the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible, revolves around the themes of posterity and land. He is said to have been called by God to leave the house of his father Terah and settle in the land of Canaan, which God now promises to Ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Gold
Nathan Gold (December 8, 1663 – October 3, 1723), was an American colonial leader and deputy governor of the Colony of Connecticut from 1708 until his death in 1723. Early life Gold was the only son of Major Nathan Gold and Sarah Phippen Gold and succeeded to the paternal estate in Fairfield, Connecticut. Major Nathan Gold was a leading man of Fairfield, and a petitioner for the Connecticut Charter of 1662. He raised Gold's Dragoons of the Fairfield Militia. Career Gold served the Colony in various offices. He was a chief magistrate at Fairfield, Connecticut in 1677 He was Ensign of the Fairfield trainband in April, 1690 and Capt. in Oct., 1695. He was Deputy Governor from 1708 to 1723. He also served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1712. Personal life Gold married Hannah Talcott on October 29, 1650. She was the daughter of Major John and Helena Wakeman Talcott, who were early founders of Hartford, Connecticut. He and Hannah had six children, Abigail, John, Nathan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coat Of Arms Of Nathan Gold
A coat is typically an outer garment for the upper body, worn by any gender for warmth or fashion. Coats typically have long sleeves and are open down the front, and closing by means of buttons, zippers, hook-and-loop fasteners (AKA velcro), toggles, a belt, or a combination of some of these. Other possible features include collars, shoulder straps, and hoods. Etymology ''Coat'' is one of the earliest clothing category words in English, attested as far back as the early Middle Ages. (''See also'' Clothing terminology.) The Oxford English Dictionary traces ''coat'' in its modern meaning to , when it was written ''cote'' or ''cotte''. The word coat stems from Old French and then -4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... and then Latin ''cottus.'' It originates from the Proto-Indo-European language">Proto-Indo-European word for woolen clothes. An early use of ''coat'' in English is Mail ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
