Background
He was the son of Jay Gould (1836-1892) and Helen Day Miller (1838-1889).
He was the son of Jay Gould (1836-1892) and Helen Day Miller (1838-1889).
She was an actress whose career had been heavily subsidized by William F. Cody. They divorced in 1909 and Howard charged her with infidelity, naming Cody. In 21st century dollars, the amount equates to approximately $900,000/year, and was said to have been the largest alimony settlement ordered up to that time.
They divorced in 1947.
After Howard and Katherine separated in 1909, he continued to build the estate, using Hunt & Hunt to design an English Tudor style mansion. The 40 room house, one of the most elaborate of the Gold Coast estates, is 225 feet (69 m) long and 125 feet (38 m) wide, with an 80-foot (24 m) tower.
The first and second floors measure over 1 and 1/2 acres. Howard moved to Europe in 1917 and sold the estate to Daniel Guggenheim and his family.
The estate, which had cost Gould over $1 million, sold for only $600,000, including the furnishing.
Gould also owned a 272-foot (83 m) yacht, Niagara, where he installed in 1912 a Welte Philharmonic Organization Gould died on 13 September 1959, aged 88, in Manhattan, New New York He was buried in the Jay Gould Mausoleum, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New New York
1871 Birth of Howard Gould
1898 Marriage to Katherine Clemmons
1907 Start of divorce
1909 Divorce final
1917 Move to Europe
1930 of Katherine Clemmons
1937 Second marriage, to Grete Mosheim
1947 Divorce from Grete Mosheim
1959 of Howard Gould.