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 amount advanced by me for the purchase of a house for him on Fifth avenue, New York City; $500,000 in Missouri Pacific 6 per cent. mortgage bonds; $500,000 in St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern railway company consolidated 5 per cent. bonds; $500,000 in Missouri Pacific railway trust 5 per cent. bonds; 10,000 shares of Manhattan railway stock; 10,000 shares of Western Union stock, and 10,000 shares of Missouri Pacific stock—all to be taken and treated as worth par."

He appointed as executors and trustees of his will his sons George J. Gould, Edwin Gould and Howard Gould, and his daughter Helen M. Gould, with a provision that in case a vacancy should occur by death or otherwise his son, Frank J. Gould was to be an executor and trustee when he shall have reached the age of twenty-one years, and in case of another vacancy he appointed his daughter Anna Gould, to fill such vacancy when she shall have reached the age of twenty-one years, no bonds to be required.

George J. Gould and Helen M. Gould were appointed guardians of Anna Gould and Frank J. Gould during their minority.

All the rest of his estate was devised and bequeathed to the said executors and trustees in trust; first, to divide the same into six equal parts or shares and to hold and invest one of such shares for each of his said children, George J. Gould, Edwin Gould, Howard Gould, Frank J. Gould, Helen M. Gould and Anna Gould, with authority to collect and re