Edwin Gould


Edwin Gould Sr. was an American investor and railway official.

Biography

Gould was born in Manhattan, New York City to railroad financier Jay Gould on February 26, 1866. He studied at Columbia University and was a member of the class of 1888 in the Columbia University School of Mines. In 1896, he donated $18,000 to fund the crew team's boathouse, which is still named in his honor. He retired in 1926, and he died on July 12, 1933. After his dinner he complained of not feeling well, and died after midnight in his bed, at his home in Oyster Bay, New York. He was buried in the family mausoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery.
TIME magazine writes on July 24, 1933:

Family

He married Sarah Cantine Shrady on October 26, 1892. She inherited $US 10,000,000 upon his death. They had two sons:
In 1917–1918, he served with Squadron A, New York National Guard.
In 1918, he was major of ordnance in the First Brigade of the New York guard.
He was chosen a captain in the Seventy-first regiment of the State National Guard.
He served as secretary of the St. Louis, Arkansas, and Texas Railway until it was reorganized as the St. Louis Southwestern Railway and later served as Vice-President and President of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway.
He organized the Continental Match Company in 1894.
He was president of the Bowling Green Trust Company and vice-president of the American Writing Paper Company and president of the Five Boroughs Realty Company.
He was a director of many railroad and other corporations.

Social

He was a very active member of the Jekyll Island Club on Jekyll Island, Georgia along with J.P. Morgan and William Rockefeller among others.