Page:Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography - volume 2.pdf/606

 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.

618

gery; Cyclopedia of Medicine; and other works. Gould, Hannah Flagg, author, poet, was born Sept. 3, 1789, in Lancaster, Mass. She was the author of The Snow Flake and the Frost; Hymns and Poems for Children; The Golden Vase; The Youth's Coronal; Moth-

Dream, and Other Poems; and Gathered She died Sept. 1865, in Newburyport, Mass.

er's

Leaves, a volume of prose. 5,

Gould, Helen Miller, philanthropist, was born June 20, 1868, in New York City. VSTien the war with Spain began she gave the United States government one hundred thousand dollars; was an active member of the Women's national war relief association, contributing freely to its work; and

personally cared for the sick and convalescent soldiers at Fort Wykoff, Long Island, giving twenty-flve thousand dollars for needed supplies. At the Windsor hotel fire in 1899, she opened her house on Fifth avenue for the relief of the dying and injured. Gould, Herman D., congressman, was born in Connecticut. In 1849-51 he was a representative from New York to the thirty-first congress. He died in 1852 in Delhi,

N.Y. Gould, Howard, actor, was born March 19, 1867, in Minneapolis, Minn. In 1882 he began his theatrical career at the old Boston

museum; and afterward acted with James Maggie Mitchell, and E. H. Sothern. starred for four years in The Prisoner of Zenda and one year in Colonial Girl. lu 1901-07 he was the leading support to Mrs.

O'Xeill,

He

A



Patrick Campbell, Viola Allen. Gould, Howard,

Mary Mannering and yachtsman,

A

fifth

capitalist,

philanthropist, was bom in 1870 in New Yoi-k City. He won the Lord Dunraven's challenge cup Niagara. He is a director in numerous railway, telegraph and financial corporations. In 1898 he married Viola Katherine Clemmons, an actress who played several seasons in England in Romeo and Juliet and starred in the United States in Lady of Venice; and other dramas.

A

Gould, Jay, financier,

ten thousand miles of railroad. He accumHe ulated over fifty millions of dollars. died Dec. 2, 1892, in New York City. Gould, James, lawyer, jurist, was bom He was Dec. 5, 1770, in Branford, Conn. the author of The Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions. He died May 11, 1836, in Litchfield, Conn. Gould, John Stanton, legislator, philanthropist, was born in 1810. He was for several years president of the New York agricultural state society, and did much to advance its interests. In 1846 he was a member of New York state assembly. He died Aug. 8, 1874, in Hudson, N.Y. Gould, John W., litterateur, author, was born Nov. 5, 1814, in Litchfield, Conn. He was the author of Forecastle Yams; and Private Journal of Voyage from New York to Rio Janeiro. He died Oct. 1, 1838, at sea. Gould, Nathaniel Duren, musician, author, was born March 26, 1781, in Bedford, Mass. In 1798 he established his first singing school in Stoddard, N.H.; and for twenty years conducted singing schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He was the author of History of Church Music. He died May 28, 1864, in Boston, Mass. Gould, Ozro Barnes, soldier, lawyer, jurist, statesman, was born April 17, 1840, in Canada. He was educated in the public and private schools and subsequently after the civil war he took a law course at Ann Arbor, Mich. In 1861 he enlisted as a soldier in the fifty-

was born May

27,

1836, in Roxbury, N.Y. He made surveys of Ulster, Albany and Delaware counties, and from these sur-

veys

civil

Winona,

tled in Minn.; and there took up the practice of law. In 1881 he was a representative in the Minnesota state legislature; and in 1895 was appointed judge of the third judicial district of Minnesota. In 1901 until his death he was a member of the state board of control of Minnesota. He died Jan. 16, 1907, in Winona Minn. Gould, Thomas R., sculptor, artist, was

became

1881,

and Washington

rail-

road at ten cents on the dollar, and in 1859 established himself in New York City as a broker. He invested heavily in Erie railway stock; and subsequently controlled

war; and attain-

the rank of captain. In 1867 he set-

born

the largest stockholder and a director in the Stroudsburg bank; bought the bonds of the Rutland

Ohio

ed

he accumulated thousand dollars. In 1856 he published a History of Delaware County. In 1857 he five

regiment

volunteer infantry; he served throughout the

in

1818 in Boston, Mass.

Among

the

works that he produced were two colossal heads, Christ and Satan. He died Nov. 26, in

Florence, Italy.

Gould, Walter, artist, was bom in 1829 in Philadelphia, Pa. His subjects are generally oriental; and illustrate principally the habits and customs of the Turks. In 1851 he visited Asia Minor; and lived with and painted portraits of the imprisoned governor of Hungary, Kossuth and many other prominent men. An Eastern StoryTeller is regarded as his most valuable work. He died Jan. 18, 1893, in Florence, Italy.