Gould, Jay
financier, was born May 27, 1836, in Roxbury, N. Y. He made surveys of Ulster, Albany and Delaware counties, and from these surveys he accumulated five thousand dollars. In 1856 he published a History of Delaware County. In 1857 he became the largest stockholder and a director in the Stroudsburg (Pa.) bank; bought the bonds of the Rutland and Washington railroad at ten cents on the dollar, and in 1859 established himself in New York city as a broker. He invested heavily in Erie railway stock, and subsequently controlled ten thousand miles of railroad. He accumulated over fifty millions of dollars. He died Dec. 2, 1892, in New York city.