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 Jason "Jay" Gould, a notorious "robber baron" during the Gilded Age. At its height, this network comprised the Denver & Rio Grande, Missouri Pacific, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Wabash, Texas Pacific, Western Maryland and International-Great Northern railroads among others.^[1][2]

Gould family
Jay Gould George Jay Gould Kingdon Gould Jr.
Current region	New York, U.S.
Place of origin	Suffolk, England
Founded	1650 374 years ago
Founder	Nathan Gold
Connected families	Beresford family Drexel family House of Talleyrand-Périgord
Estate(s)	Lyndhurst; Hempstead House; George J. Gould House

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.^[3] Despite losing the source of much of their wealth, subsequent generations of the family continued to be involved in business, politics and philanthropy.

Family tree

• Jay "Jason" Gould
  • George Jay Gould
    • Kingdon Gould Sr.
      • Silvia Annunziata Gould (1919–1980),
      • Edith Kingdon Gould
      • Kingdon Gould Jr.
      • • Harold Thorne Gould (b.1949)
        • Frank Jay Gould (b.1952)
        • Candida Gould (b.1954)
        • Caleb Comstock Gould (b.1956)
        • Annunziata Octavia Gould (b.1960)
        • Thalia Thorne Gould (b.1963)
    • Jay Gould II
      • Jay Gould III (1920–1987)
        • Anne Elena Gould (1954–1990)
        • Jay Gould IV (1961–2016)
    • Marjorie Gwynne Gould
      • Edith Kingdon Drexel (1911–1934)
      • Anthony Joseph Drexel IV (1912–1948)
      • Marjorie Gould Drexel (1916–1947)
    • Helen Vivien Gould
      • Eileen Vivien de la Poer Beresford (1912-?)
      • Catherine Moya de la Poer Beresford (1913–1967)
      • Arthur George Marcus Douglas de la Poer Beresford (1915–1992)
    • George Jay Gould II (1896–1963)
      • George Jay Gould III (1918–1985)
      • Maughan Carter Gould (1920–1986)
      • Howard Jay Gould (1928–1998)
      • Patrick Jay Gould (1934–2018)
    • Edith Catherine Gould
      • Stuyvesant Wainwright (1921–2010)
      • Caroline DePeyster Wainwright (1924–1969)
      • Carroll Livingston Wainwright Jr. (1925–2016)
    • Gloria Gould
      • Gioia Bishop (1925–1990)
  • Edwin Gould
    • Edwin Gould Jr. (1894–1917)
    • Frank Miller Gould (c.1895–1945)
      • Marianne Alice Gould (1925–1957)
      • Edwin Jay Gould (1932–1993)
  • Helen Miller Gould
  • Howard Gould
  • Anna Gould
    • Marie Louise de Castellane (b. 1896)
    • Boniface, Marquis de Castellane (1896–1946)
    • Georges Paul Ernest de Castellane (1897/9–1944)
    • Georges Gustave de Castellane (c. 1898–1946)
    • Jay (Jason) de Castellane (1902–1956)
  • Frank Jay Gould
    • Dorothy Gould Burns (1904–1969)
      • Rolande Graffenried de Villars (b. 1925)
      • Dorothy Graffenried de Villars (b. 1927)
    • Helen Margaret Gould (1902–1985)
      • Helen Daniele de Montenach (b.1924)
      • George Frank de Montenach (1926–1991)
      • Francoise Florena de Montenach (b.1929)
      • Francis Edouard Maret (b.1944)

Network

Associates

The following is a list of figures closely aligned with or subordinate to the Gould family.

• Dominic F. Antonelli Jr.
• S. H. H. Clark
• Abel Corbin
• John F. Dillon
• Sidney Dillon
• "Big Jim" Fisk
• Herbert Melville Hoxie
• Collis Potter Huntington
• Edward Turner Jeffery^[4]
• John C. Osgood
• John D. Rockefeller
• Russell Sage
• A. A. Talmadge
• William M. Tweed
• Theodoric R. Westbrook

Businesses

The following is a list of businesses in which the Gould family have held a controlling or otherwise significant interest.

• Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad^[5]
• Central Railroad of New Jersey^[6]
• Colorado Fuel and Iron
• Continental Match Company^[7]
• Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad^[6]
• Denver and Rio Grande Railway^[6][8]
• Erie Railroad (1868-1872)^[9]
• Gould Property Company^[10]
• Hôtel Le Provençal^[11]
• International—Great Northern Railroad^[2][12]
• Kansas Pacific Railway^[13]
• Manhattan Railway Company
• Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad^[6][14]
• Missouri Pacific Railway^[1][15][12]
• New York World^[13]
• Parking Management Inc.^[16]
• Rutland and Washington Railroad^[17]
• St. Louis Southwestern Railway ^[2][12]
• Tenth National Bank^[18]
• Texas and Pacific Railway^[1][12]
• Union Pacific Railroad (1874-1878)^[13]
• Virginia Railway & Power Company
• Wabash Railroad^[1][19]
• Western Maryland Railroad^[2]
• Western Pacific Railroad^[4]
• Western Union^[13][20]
• Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad^[2]

Philanthropy & Miscellaneous Nonprofit Institutions

• American Yacht Club (New York)
• Capital Crescent Trail
• Edwin Gould Foundation for Children ^[21]
• Glenelg Country School
• Gould Memorial Library
• Hall of Fame for Great Americans
• Women's National War Relief Association

References

1. Morris, Charles M. (2005). The Tycoons:How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy. New York City, NY: Henry Holt and Company. pp. 144–145. ISBN 978-0-8050-8134-3.
2. Keys 1907, p. 8441.
3. Treese, Lorett (2006). Railroads of New Jersey: Fragments of the Past in the Garden State Landscape. Stackpole Books. p. 152. ISBN 978-0-8117-3260-4.
4. Farnsworth, Robert S. (2017). The Grand Western Railroad Game: The History of the Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific Railroads. Volume I: The Empire Years: 1850 Up to the Great War. Dorrance Publishing. p. 362. ISBN 978-1-4809-2707-0.
5. White, Henry Kirke (1895). History of the Union Pacific Railway. University of Chicago Press. p. 52.
6. Steinmetz, Greg (2023). American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune. Simon & Schuster. p. 183. ISBN 978-1-9821-0741-3.
7. Sarokin & Schulkin 2020, p. 96.
8. Drury 2007, p. 305.
9. Grant, H. Roger (2019) [2004]. "Follow the Flag": A History of the Wabash Railroad Company. Northern Illinois University Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-1-5017-4777-9.
10. McQuaid, Kevin L. "Manekin Starts Work on Big P.G. Co. Mixed-Use Project." Baltimore Business Journal. November 15, 1991.
11. "A Piece of History Reborn". France Today. 9 January 2009. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
12. Vivian, Julia L. (1995) [1905]. "Jay Gould". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
13. Douglas 2007, p. 494.
14. Young, Jan (2016) [2009]. Studebaker and the Railroads - Volume 2. Lulu.com. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-557-09383-0.
15. Solomon, Brian (2014). North American Railroads: The Illustrated Encyclopedia. Voyageur Press. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-7603-4736-2.
16. Kelly, Jacques (2018). "Kingdon Gould Jr., Former Ambassador and Astute Parking Lot Investor, Dies at 94". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
17. Lynch, Denis Tilden (1927). "Boss" Tweed: The Story of a Grim Generation, Volume 25. Boni and Liveright. p. 105.
18. White, Trumbull (1893). Wizard of Wall Street and his wealth, or, The life and deeds of Jay Gould. J.C. Yorston. p. 481.
19. Treese, Lorett (2012) [2003]. Railroads of Pennsylvania. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. p. 268. ISBN 978-0-8117-0011-5.
20. Kohn, George C., ed. (2001). The New Encyclopedia of American Scandal. Infobase Publishing. pp. 159–160. ISBN 0-8160-4420-1.
21. Hutto 2006, p. 64.

Sources

• Douglas, George H. (2007). "Geography and Railroad Development". In Middleton, William D.; Smerk, George M.; Diehl, Roberta L. (eds.). Encyclopedia of North American Railroads. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 494. ISBN 978-0-253-34916-3.
• Drury, George H. (2007). "Colorado & Southern Railway". In Middleton, William D.; Smerk, George M.; Diehl, Roberta L. (eds.). Encyclopedia of North American Railroads. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 305. ISBN 978-0-253-34916-3.
• Hutto, Richard Jay (2006). Their Gilded Cage: The Jekyll Island Club Members. Henchard Press Ltd. ISBN 978-0-9770912-2-5.
• Keys, C.M. (January 1907). "The Sick Man of the Railroad Powers". The World's Work: A History of Our Time. XIII: 8441–8442.
• Sarokin, David; Schulkin, Jay (2020). The Corporation: Its History and Future. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5275-4868-8.