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  Gould, George Jay - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
He was associated with his father, inherited all the holdings on Jay Gould's death, and adopted daring policies.
Stephen Jay Gould and the contingent nature of history.
This view of science: Stephen Jay Gould as historian of science and scientific historian.
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 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Jay Gould
Jason Gould, the son of John Burr Gould (1792–1866) and Mary Moore Gould (1798–1841), was born on a small dairy farm near Roxbury, New York.
Gould died of tuberculosis on December 2, 1892 and was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York.
At the time of his death, Gould was a benefactor in the reconstruction of the Reformed Church of Roxbury, now the Jay Gould Memorial Reformed Church.
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 AmericanHeritage.com / Larcenous Mrs. Cody vs. Pious Miss Gould
Gould himself, and she waited euphorically for a wave of that gold-headed cane to produce a miraculous gush of wealth.
George and Edwin, the elder sons, engrossed in a constant struggle to keep the rickety Gould empire from being dismembered by hostile bands of railroad moguls, might have been tempted to follow Judge Dillon’s prudent counsel.
Kind and generous and unassuming though Helen Gould was, and shy and timid though she may have appeared, the instigator or instigators of the plot had erred fatally in casting her for the role of the hysterically doting daughter who would submit meekly to their demands.
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 Remembering Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)
Gould was born on Sept. 10, 1941, in Queens, the son of Leonard Gould, a court stenographer, and Eleanor Gould, an artist and entrepreneur.
Gould is survived by his wife; his mother; his two sons from a previous marriage, Jesse Gould of Cambridge, Mass., and Ethan Gould of Boston; his stepson, Jade Allen of Gainesville, Fla.; and his stepdaughter, London Allen of Manhattan.
Gould challenged this view, arguing in his most notorious essay that much of life has no function, no purpose, and is at best a by-product of other forces, as are the functionless areas at the tops of columns in medieval churches—"spandrels" that simply are, without intent or end.
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 George Jay Gould II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Jay Gould II (September 1, 1888 – January 26, 1935) was an American real tennis player, and son of financier George Jay Gould I.
George Jay Gould III (1918-1987) who was a student in the Arizona Desert School in Tucson, Arizona when his father died, and he later married Eileen O'Malley (1919-1996).
Such was the accuracy of Gould in giving this service that he seemed to be able to place it within an inch of wherever he desired to, and his variations of length and pace left the receiver hopelessly in the dark.
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 Wall Street And Early Manipulators
Gould entertained the idea that, if he could create a scarcity of gold the price would go up, which, in turn, would advance the price of wheat.
Jay Gould had broken his own market; and once more he had broken faith with his associates.
Gould died in 1892 and was succeeded by his son, George jay, who established even a stronger railroad empire than did his father.
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 Jay Gould - WikiLeasing.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Jason Gould, the son of John Burr Gould (1792-1866) and Mary Moore Gould (11798-1841), was born on a small dairy farm near Roxbury, New York.
Gould withdrew from management of the UP in 1883 amidst political controversy over its debts to the federal government, realizing a large profit for himself.Gould also obtained a controlling interest in the Western Union telegraph company, and, after 1881, in he elevated railways in New York City.
Anti-semitism in connection with Gould's name motivated some of this hostility, even though he was born a Presbyterian and married an Episcopalian.More recent biographers, including Maury Klein and Edward Renehan, have reexamined Gould's acreer with more attention to primary sources.
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 Elliott Gould - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Gould, Elliott, born in 1938, American film actor.
Gould, George Jay (1864-1923), American financier, oldest son of Jay Gould, born in New York City, and privately educated.
Gould, Morton (1913-1996), American composer and conductor, known for works using themes from folk music, spirituals, and jazz.
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 George Jay Gould I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Jay Gould I (February 6, 1864 – May 16, 1923) was a financier and the son of Jay Gould.
George was the son of Jay Gould (1836-1892) and Helen Day Miller (1838-1889).
An appraisal filed yesterday of the New York estate of George J. Gould, who died May 16, 1923, a resident of New Jersey, showed that the property taxable here was worth only $60,592, consisting of his place at Furlough Lake, in the Catskills, with its contents, and personal effects in New York City.
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 gould stephen jay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
George Jay Gould I, (1864-1923) president of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and the Western Pacific Railroad
Jay is a common name for several species of medium-sized, usually colorful and noisy passerine or perching birds in the family Corvidae, or crow family.
They are closely allied to the magpies and the names 'jay' and 'magpie' are somewhat interchangeable, not reflecting any genuine genetic difference between the two groups.
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 A Day In The Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
By the late 1800s, Lakewood was earning fame as a winter resort, and millionaire George Jay Gould was ready to stake his claim.
Gould, son of railroad tycoon Jay Gould, bought 200 acres along the north bank of Lake Carasaljo and broke ground for his estate in January 1897.
After the Goulds died, their sons sold the estate in 1924 to the Sisters of Mercy, a Roman Catholic order who at the time had a college in Plainfield called Mount St. Mary's, which was fast outgrowing its space.
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 Steve Sailer: iSteve.com Blog Archives: No, I think Stephen Jay Gould would have been
That is because Gould focused on large changes in form or structure, whereas Pritchard studies subtler changes at the genetic level.
A gene that affects brain development may also play a role in the immune system, so it is not possible to say with certainty that natural selection has favored the change because of its effect on the brain.
Gould, a famous sports nut, cannot turn on his TV without being confronted by lean East Africans outdistancing the world's runners, massive Samoans flattening quarterbacks, lithe Chinese diving and tumbling for gold medals, or muscular athletes of West African descent out-sprinting, out-jumping, and out-hitting all comers.
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 Descendants of Danyell Broadley of Bingley, Yorkshire - tobg90.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
George W. Northrop son of William Northrop and Hannah Sutherland on 13 Jul 1854.
George was born in (of) Camden, New Jersey, USA.
Jay Gould (John Burr Gould, Abraham Gold, Abraham Gold, Esther Bradley, Abraham Bradley, William, Danyell) was born
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 Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company 1880 signed by Robber Barron Jay Gould as President
Jay Gould was born in 1836 and died in 1892.
In 1880 the Katy was acquired by Jay Gould, who leased the railroad to his Missouri Pacific Railway Company in December of that year.
However, during the Gould era the Missouri, Kansas and Texas continued to expand in Texas, reached Dallas, Fort Worth, and Waco, and made significant progress on a line to Houston and San Antonio.
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 Educate Yourself - Jay Gould
Jay Gould thought that if he could concoct an argument that the government should refrain from selling its gold on the market (because if the gold price was allowed to rise, the farmer would then be able to sell more of his grain in Europe), it would raise already depressed farm prices.
And speaking of credit, Gould at the same time had acquired a controlling interest in Tenth National Bank, meaning he had unlimited access to the funds necessary to back his gold play.
In September, Gould was convinced that Grant wouldn't stand in the way of a bit of inflation in order to help the farmers so he began to accelerate his gold purchases.
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 Bridges and Tunnels of Allegheny County and Pittsburgh, PA - RR history, Moody, 1919   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Gould stayed in Albany until April, and by this time a remarkable change had come over the mentality of a majority of the legislators.
Jay Gould was now becoming a dominating factor and in October of 1868 was chosen president.
The various stock-market struggles that ensued from the ascendency of Jay Gould to the receivership of the Erie in 1875 is a long and intricate tale.
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 Western Maryland (#1004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Early in the 20th century, the Western Maryland became the link by which the Wabash Railway system controlled by George Jay Gould I would establish an east coast connection.
Gould was stringing together railroads to form a transcontinental competitor to the giants like the Pennsylvania Railroad on his "Alphabet Route".
Sold to the Gould interests in 1902, it became an important part of the WM in 1905 and contributed heavily to that road's prosperity in the coal and lumber trade down to modern times.
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 AllRefer.com - Jay Gould, (Business Leaders, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Delaware co., N.Y. A country-store clerk and surveyor's assistant, he rose to control half the railroad mileage in the Southwest, New York City's elevated railroads, and the Western Union Telegraph Company.
Public protest forced the Gould group out of the Erie, ending with Gould's expulsion in 1872.
After his death his estate and interests were managed by his son, George Jay Gould.
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 Jay Gould, Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward), Robber Barons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Gould once observed "I can hire one half the Working Class to kill the other half." Gould was sometimes referred to as "the most hated man in America" and was the stereotypical greedy, unscrupulous, and friendless robber baron.
And he pointed to self-interested, fraudulent examples: He condemned Jay Gould as a "master of trick and deceit" like the "projectors" of Daniel Defoe, a "Mephistopheles" who was crafty and sardonic and scoffing.
William Vanderbilt inherited $94 million in 1877, the first industrial fortune, an "economic monolith" that doubled in 8 years because "the public be damned" and railroads conspired to set rates.
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 S. Mary Grace Burns Arboretum
George Jay Gould, millionaire son of railroad tycoon Jay Gould.
The Gould family requested that the name of the estate be retained, so the college became Georgian Court University.
The arboretum, established in 1989, is named after Sister Mary Grace Burns, who was the chairperson of the biology department and professor of biology from 1927 to 1968.
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 Events
Gould's 2nd Annual Holiday Social continues the saga of the remarkable Gould Family history.
Gould, and her lively domestic, Trudy, welcomes a lost stranger into Georgian Court.
Edith Kingdom Gould as she hosts her entertaining holiday social, complete with high tea and traditional seasonal music of the period.
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 gould stephen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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 College Profiles - Georgian Court College
Situated at the northern end of New Jersey's Pine Barrens on the 150-acre former estate of millionaire George Jay Gould, Georgian Court College is a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places.
The College's beautifully landscaped 150-acre campus on the former George Jay Gould estate provides an impressive setting for college life.
International students must complete a GCC financial support form and should be prepared to assume full financial responsibility for educational and personal expenses in the United States.
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 Elliott Gould Web Page At MyStarLinks.com
Gould joined such distinguished company as Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum when he played legendary shamus Phillip Marlowe in the 1973 film The Long Goodbye.
His career slowed down after a series of critical and commercial flops in the mid to late 70's, but he has remained steadily employed in supporting and character roles in television and movies, including a recurring guest role on Friends.
Gould received critical praise for his role as an aging mobster in Warren Beatty's 1991 film Bugsy.
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 Other Information of- Carroll Livingston Wainwright I.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
He was born on December 2, 1899 in Philadelphia to Stuyvesant Wainwright and Caroline Smith Snowden.
She was the daughter of millionaire George Jay Gould I (1864-1923) and Edith M. Kingdon (1864-1921).
Edith Gould Wainwright, 30, daughter of the late George Jay Gould I ; from Carroll Livingston Wainwright I, 33, Manhattan socialite who was committed by his brothers to Bloomingdale Hospital last year, was later adjudged to be "mentally competent"; in Reno.
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 Letter H - Delaware County, NY Queries and Surnames
The deaths (1780) and tombstones of Thomas and John Hendry are mentioned in Jay Gould's "History of Delaware County" (Chapters V and VI).
Children: Howard (1887), George (1890), Harry (1895), Arthur (1897) as per the 1900 census of the town of Delhi.
George W Hunt was born 1774, in CT. Settled in Delaware Co. lived there for several years.
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 History of Ocean County
Georgian Court, the estate of George Jay Gould, scion of robber baron and railroad tycoon, Jay Gould, was built in Lakewood during the glorious Gilded Age.
John D. Rockefeller purchased the Hunt and Country Club from George Jay Gould in Lakewood and converted it into his summer estate.
The Lakewood estate of the financier and railroad magnate George Jay Gould was acquired by the Sisters of Mercy to establish Georgian Court College, a four-year women's educational institution.
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