Profile
Jay Gould
Financier + Baron
Male
Born
May 27, 1836
Hometown
Roxbury, New York
Died
Dec 2, 1892
Death Place
Manhattan
Other Names
Jason Gould
Jason "Jay" Gould was a leading American railroad developer and speculator. He has long been vilified as an archetypal robber baron, whose successes made him the ninth richest American in history. Cond%C3%A9 Nast Portfolio ranked Gould as the 8th worst… Read More
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Jay Gould
d.1892
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1836
Birth
Born on May 27, 1836.
TEENAGE
His principal was credited as getting him a job working as a bookkeeper for a blacksmith. A year later the blacksmith offered him half interest in the blacksmith shop, which he sold to his father during the early part of 1854.
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TWENTIES
In 1856 he published History of Delaware County, and Border Wars of New York, which he had spent several years writing.
He married Helen Day Miller (1838–1889) in 1863.
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THIRTIES
Tweed and Gould became the subjects of political cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1869.
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In 1873 Gould attempted to take control of the Erie Railroad by recruiting foreign investments from Lord Gordon-Gordon, whom he believed was a cousin of the wealthy Campbells looking to buy land for immigrants.
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FORTIES
1879
43 Years Old
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Beginning in 1879, he gained control of four western railroads, including the Union Pacific, which completed part of the transcontinental railroad, and the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
1880
44 Years Old
By 1880, he controlled 10,000 miles (16,000 km) of railway, about one-ninth of the length of rail in the United States at that time, and, by 1882, he had controlling interest in 15% of the country's tracks.
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1881
45 Years Old
Gould obtained a controlling interest in the Western Union telegraph company, and, after 1881, in the elevated railways in New York City.
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1883
47 Years Old
When Gould withdrew from management of the Union Pacific in 1883 amidst political controversy over its debts to the federal government, he realized a large profit for himself.
FIFTIES
1886
50 Years Old
During the Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886, he hired strikebreakers.
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1892
57 Years Old
Gould died of tuberculosis on December 2, 1892, and was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York.
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