Background
Gould, Edwin was born on February 26, 1866 in New York, United States. Son of Jay and Helen Day (Miller) Gould.
philanthropist transportation executive
Gould, Edwin was born on February 26, 1866 in New York, United States. Son of Jay and Helen Day (Miller) Gould.
He studied at Columbia University.
He retired in 1926, and he died on July 12, 1933. After his dinner he complained of not feeling well, and died after midnight in his bed, at his home in Oyster Bay, New New York He was buried in the family mausoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery.
TIME magazine writes on July 24, 1933:.
But he modestly went his way, made and gave away his modest millions, died without ostentation, of a sudden heart attack. She inherited $United States 10,000,000 upon his death.
They had two sons:
Edwin Gould II, (1894-1917). He died from a hunting accident at the Jekyll Island Club on Jekyll Island, Georgia in 1917.
Frank Miller Gould (c 1895-1945).
She was from Dallas, Texas. They had two children:
Marianne Gould (1926- January 21, 1957);
Edwin Jay Gould (1932- 1993). Frank died on January 13, 1945.
Chosen a captain in the Seventy-first regiment of the State National Guard.
Served as secretary of the Saint Louis, Arkansas, and Texas Railway until it was reorganized as the Saint Louis Southwestern Railway. Served as Vice-President and President of the Saint Louis Southwestern Railway.
Organized the Continental Match Company in 1894 (consolidated with the Diamond Match Company in 1899). President of the Bowling Green Trust Company.
Vice-president of the American Writing Paper Company.
President of the Five Boroughs Realty Company. Director of many railroad and other corporations. In 1917-1918, he served with Squadron A, New York National Guard.
In 1918, he was major of ordnance in the First Brigade of the New York guard.
He was a very active member of the Jekyll Island Club (aka The millionaires Club) on Jekyll Island, Georgia along with Justice of the Peace Morgan and William Rockefeller among others
Married Sarah Cantine, daughter