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OULD, ASHLEY MULGRAVE, associate justice Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, was born at Lower Horton, Nova Scotia, October 8, 1859. He is the son of Charies Edward Gould, a carpenter, subsequently engaged in manufacturing, and at present the secretary and treasurer of the Northampton Electric Lighting Company, a man of perseverance and honesty, to whom local municipal offices in Northampton, Massachusetts, have frequently been entrusted. His mother's maiden name was Mary Jane Fuller. He engaged freely in athletics in early life although he was not strong. Reading fiction, and baseball were his favorite amusements as a boy. His studies were pursued at the Northampton high school until 1877, and he was graduated from Amherst college, Massachusetts, in 1881. He took a professional course at Georgetown university law school, graduating in 1884, and was admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia in April, 1884.

He began the active work of life as a clerk in the post office department, Washington, District of Columbia, in 1881. His professional life has been that of a lawyer, United States attorney for the District and justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. He was a member of the house of delegates of Maryland, 1897-98, and was Republican caucus nominee for speaker. He is a member of the Masonic Order and of the Army and Na^y clubs and the Bar Association of Washington, District of Columbia, and of Maryland. He is identified with the Republican party. He is affiliated with the Methodist church. In 1901 he was appointed United States attorney for the District of Columbia. He is professor of the Law of Contracts, Domestic Relations and Criminal Law in the law department of the Georgetown university. On December 8, 1902, he was appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

He was married to Margaret Gray, November 22, 1888. They have had seven children of whom five are living in 1905.