Gould family

Gould family
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

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]

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 continue 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.
      - Kingdon Gould III (b.1948)
      - 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.

Businesses

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

Philanthropy & miscellaneous monprofit institutions

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Keys 1907, p. 8441.
^ 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.
^ ^a ^b 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.
^ White, Henry Kirke (1895). History of the Union Pacific Railway. University of Chicago Press. p. 52.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Steinmetz, Greg (2023). American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune. Simon & Schuster. p. 183. ISBN 978-1-9821-0741-3.
^ Drury 2007, p. 305.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Vivian, Julia L. (1995) [1905]. "Jay Gould". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
^ ^a ^b ^c Douglas 2007, p. 494.
^ Young, Jan (2016) [2009]. Studebaker and the Railroads - Volume 2. Lulu.com. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-557-09383-0.
^ Solomon, Brian (2014). North American Railroads: The Illustrated Encyclopedia. Voyageur Press. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-7603-4736-2.
^ Kelly, Jacques (2018). "Kingdon Gould Jr., Former Ambassador and Astute Parking Lot Investor, Dies at 94". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
^ Lynch, Denis Tilden (1927). "Boss" Tweed: The Story of a Grim Generation, Volume 25. Boni and Liveright. p. 105.
^ White, Trumbull (1893). Wizard of Wall Street and his wealth, or, The life and deeds of Jay Gould. J.C. Yorston. p. 481.
^ Treese, Lorett (2012) [2003]. Railroads of Pennsylvania. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. p. 268. ISBN 978-0-8117-0011-5.
^ Kohn, George C., ed. (2001). The New Encyclopedia of American Scandal. Infobase Publishing. pp. 159–160. ISBN 0-8160-4420-1.

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.
Keys, C.M. (January 1907). "The Sick Man of the Railroad Powers". The World's Work: A History of Our Time. XIII: 8441–8442.