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to the United States in 1893, and in 1894 resigned his post in the U.S. department of labor to ac- cept the chair of statistics in the University of Chicago. In 1896 he resigned this professorsliip to become president of the City and Suburban Homes companj' of New York city, an investment company with 82,000,000 capital, the aim of the company being to improve the living environ- ment of the wage-earners of New York on a commercial basis, in other words to unite philan- thropy and sound business. He was elected a member of the International statistical institute and the British economic association; a corre- sponding member of the Societe d'Economie politique de Paris and of the SociSte de Statis- tique de Paris; corresponding secretary of the American statistical association ; president of the American economic association and fellow of the academy of political science. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins univer- sity in 1886. His published writings include : The Social Condition of Labor (1892) ; Popular Control of the Liquor Traffic (1895) ; The Gothenburg System of Liqiior Traffic (1893); The Housing of Workincj Peo- ple (1895) ; Industrial Conciliation and Arbitra- tion in Enriipe and Australasia (1895) and numer- ous contril)utic>ns to periodical literature.

QOULD, Ezra Palmer, clergyman, was born in Boston, Mass.. Feb. 27, 1841; son of Samuel Lawrence and Frances Ann (Slielton) Gould. He was prepared for college at the Boston and tlie Roxbury Latin schools, and was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1861; A.M., 1865. He served in the Federal army, as a private, 24tli Mas.sa- chusetts volunteer.s, 1861-63; lieutenant, 55th Massachusetts volunteers, 1863-64, and captain and major, 59th Massachusetts volunteers, 1864^65. He was gi-aduated from the New- ton theological institution in 1868 and was assistant professor of Biblical literature and interpretation there, 1868-70, and professor of New Testament interpretation and literature, 1870-82. He was pastor of the Baptist church, Burlington, Vt., 1884-88; was confirmed in the Protestant Episcopal church in Philadelphia, Pa., in December, 1888, and was professor of New Test- ament literature and language at the Divinity school of the Protestant Episcopal church in Philadelphia, 1889-98. In 1899 he became assist- ant minister at St. George's church, New York city. He was elected a member of the Military- Order of the Loyal Legion in 1875 ; a member of the New England society of Philadelphia in 1893; and of the Society of Biblical literature and inter- pretation in 1875. He was married Sept. 1, 1868, to Jane Maria, daughter of James and Ann (Pid- geon) Stone. He received the degree of D.D. from Columbia college in 1889. He is the author of: Commentary on I. and II. Corinthians (1870);

Commentary on St. Mark (1895) ; Biblical Tlteol- or/y of the New Testament (1899). He died at White Lake. N.Y., .Aug. 27, 1900.

QOULD, Helen Miller, philanthropist, was born in New York city, June 20, 1868; daughter of Jay and Helen Day (Miller) Gould, and grand- daughter of John Burr and Mary (More) Gould. She was educated by private instructors and took a course at the New York law university in order to have a better knowledge of the details of busi- ness. During the later years of her father's life she acted as his amanuensis, and after his death in 1892 she personally managed her inherited fortune of about §20,000,000. Slie made her summer home at Irvington-on-the-Hudson, N.Y.,

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and devoted the gi-eater part of her time to char- itable work. The following is a partial list of her more important gifts for charitable and edu- cational purposes: §250,000 to the University of the city of New York in 1895 for a library build- ing, and .560.000 in 1898 to defray the additional cost of the library ; two scholarshiiJs in the Uni- versity of the city of New Y''ork endowed with S5000 each. 1895 ; a gift to the St. Louis cyclone sufferers of 8100,000, 1896; a gift to Vassar col- lege of 88000, 1896: the sum of 8100,000 given to the U.S. government for war purposes in 1898, and 825,000 for the relief of soldiers at Camp Wyckoff, Long Island, 1898; Rutgers college, 810,000, 1898; Engineering school, Univer.sity of the city of New York, 810,000, 1898; Mt. Holyoke college, $5000, 1898; Naval branch Y^M.b.A. Brooklyn, N.Y., $400,000, 1901 ; Woody Crest, a home tor crippled children ; a Presbyterian chmch at a cast of §150,000, a memorial to her father at Roxbury, N.Y.; and $2.50.000 in 1900 to build " The Hall of Fame for Great Americans "' in connection with the New York University College of Arts and Science, New York cit_v. QOULD, Jay, financier. was born at Stratton's Falls, near Roxbury. Delaware county, N.Y., May 27, 1836; son of John Burr and Mary (More) Gould, and a descendant of Abraham Gould, a