Helen Miller Gould Shepard (1868–1938), married Finlay Johnson Shepard (1867–1942) They adopted three children
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Jay Gould
Jay Gould was an American railroad magnate and financial speculator who founded the Gould business dynasty. He is generally identified as one of the robber barons of the Gilded Age. His sharp and often unscrupulous business practices made him one of the wealthiest men of the late 19th century. Gould was an unpopular figure during his life and remains controversial.
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business · American railroad magnate (1836–1892) · entrepreneur · financier · cartographer · business magnate · speculator · also Jay Gould, Jason Gould, Gould
Born 27 May 1836 · Died 2 December 1892 · Q709595
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Corporations are going, we are told, to destroy the country. But what would this country be but for corporations? Who have developed it? Corporations. Who transact the most marvelous business the world has ever seen? Corporations.
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1892· 5 entries
Gould died of tuberculosis, then referred to as consumption, in his New York mansion
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Died 1892-12-02.
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“Corporations are going, we are told, to destroy the country. But what would this country be but for corporations? Who have developed it? Corporations. Who transact the most marvelous business the world has ever seen? Corporations.”
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“No man can control Wall Street. Wall Street is like the ocean. No man can govern it. It is too vast. Wall Street is full of eddies and currents. The thing to do is to watch them, to exercise a little common sense, and … to come out on top.”
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“I sometimes think I should like to give up business entirely. The care and worriment attending large business interests are very great, but besides that fact the manner in which motives are impugned and characters assailed is most unpleasant”
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1889· 1 entry
Organized the Terminal Railroad Association of St
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1883· 1 entry
Amid political controversy over its debts to the federal government, but he realized a large profit for himself
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1880· 1 entry
Purchased the Gothic Revival mansion Lyndhurst to use as a country house
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1873· 2 entries
After its stock had been depressed by the Panic of 1873, and he built a viable railroad that depended on shipments from farmers and ranchers
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Gould attempted to take control of the Erie Railroad by recruiting foreign investments from Lord Gordon-Gordon, supposedly a cousin of the wealthy Campbell clan, who was buying land for immigrants
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1869· 2 entries
When the greenback (cash) premium over face value of a gold double eagle fell from 62 percent to 35 percent
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Tweed and Gould became the subjects of critical political cartoons by Thomas Nast
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1859· 1 entry
Gould began speculative investing by buying stock in small railways
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1856· 3 entries
Gould entered a partnership with Charles Mortimer Leupp, a son-in-law of Gideon Lee and one of the leading leather merchants in the United States
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Gould entered a partnership with Zadock Pratt to create a tanning business in Pennsylvania, in an area that was later named Gouldsboro
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(having by that time shortened his first name from Jason to Jay), he published History of Delaware County, and Border Wars of New York, which he had spent several years writing
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1854· 1 entry
Surveyed and created maps of the Ulster County, New York, area
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1836· 1 entry
Born 1836-05-27.
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