The Gould family is a wealthy American family that came to prominence in the late 19th century. The family's fortune was primarily earned by Jason "Jay" Gould, a notorious railroad tycoon and "robber
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George Jay Gould I was a financier and the son of Jay Gould. He was himself a railroad executive, leading the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, Western Pacific Railroad, and the Manhattan Railwa
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…Northern railroads among others. By the early 20th century, the Goulds lost control over virtually all these railroads due to mismanagement by Jay's son, George Jay Gould. Jason "Jay" Gould George Jay Gould Kingdon Gould Sr. Silvia Annunziata Gould (1919–1980), Edith Kingdon Gould Kingdon Gould Jr. Harold Thorne Gould…
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"Vigilant" Gould as depicted in Vanity Fair, September 1894. Gould had bought Vigilant, the winner of the previous year's America's Cup, and was racing it in England.
Gould and his family at the wedding of his sister, Helen Miller Shepard in 1913