{{Short description|American financier and socialite (1871–1959)}} {{about||the American novelist and screenwriter|Howard Michael Gould}} {{Infobox person | name = Howard Gould | image = Howard Gould (1871-1959) portrait (cropped).jpg | caption = Gould in ''Notable New Yorkers, 1899'' | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1871|6|8}} | birth_place = New York City, US | death_date = {{Death date and age|1959|9|13|1871|6|8}} | death_place = Doctors Hospital, New York City, US | death_cause = | other_names = | known_for = | education = Columbia College | occupation = | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Katherine Clemmons|October 12, 1898|1909|reason=div}} * {{marriage|Grete Mosheim|1937|1947|reason=div}} }} | partner = Odette Tyler (1894) | children = | parents = Jay Gould<br>Helen Day Miller | relatives = {{hlist|siblings:<br>George Jay Gould|Edwin Gould|Helen Miller Shepard|Anna Gould|Frank Jay Gould}} }} '''Howard Gould''' (June 8, 1871 – September 13, 1959) was an American financier and the son of Jay Gould.
== Early life== Gould was born in Manhattan on June 8, 1871<ref name=HGObit1929/> to railroad financier Jay Gould (1836–1892) and Helen Day Miller (1838–1889). He was the fourth of six children among siblings George,<ref name=GJGObit1923>{{cite news |title=George J. Gould Dies in Villa in France. Leaves $30,000,000. With His Second Wife and Her Children Near, He Yearned for His Sons. Last Malady a Secret. Death Holds Up Litigation With Family Over His Father's Estate. First Became Ill in March. Had Apparently Regained Health When He Suffered a Relapse. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/05/17/archives/george-j-gould-dies-in-villa-in-france-leaves-30000000-with-his.html |work=The New York Times |date=May 17, 1923 |access-date=2008-05-23 }}</ref> Edwin,<ref name=EGSrObit1933>{{cite news |title=Edwin Gould Dies Suddenly at 67. Son of Railroad Financier and Builder Was Noted for Benefactions to Children. Left School of Finance. Made $1,000,000 Profit Operating Alone in Wall Street Before Father Forgave Him. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1933/07/13/archives/edwin-godld-dies-suddenly-at-67-son-of-railroad-financier-and.html |work=The New York Times |date=July 13, 1933 |access-date=2008-08-06 }}</ref> Helen,<ref>{{cite news |title=Mrs. F. J. Shepard Dies of a Stroke. Former Helen Gould, Famous for Philanthropy, Stricken at Her Summer Home Gave Away Much of Fortune. Mrs. Finley J. Shepard Is Stricken at 70. Philanthropist and Daughter of Jay Gould Got Permission to Marry. Wed at Lyndhurst. Benefactions in War With Spain. Descendant of Pioneers.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/12/21/archives/mrs-f-j-shepard-dies-of-a-stroke-former-helen-gould-famous-for.html |work=New York Times |date=December 21, 1938|access-date=2007-06-18 }}</ref> Anna<ref name=AGObit1961>{{cite news |title=Died. |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,895802,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204214422/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,895802,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 4, 2011 |publisher=Time magazine |date=December 8, 1961 |access-date=2007-07-21 }}</ref><ref name=NYT11301961>{{cite news |title=Duchesse de Talleyrand Is Dead. Youngest daughter of Jay Gould |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html |work=The New York Times |date=November 30, 1961 |access-date=2008-08-06 }}</ref> and Frank.<ref>{{cite news |title=Frank Jay Gould Dead on Riviera. Youngest Son of Rail Empire Maker was 78. Built Up Resort of Juan-les-Pins Heir to $10,000,000 N.Y.U. Graduate of 1899. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1956/04/01/archives/frank-jay-gould-dead-on-riviera-youngest-son-of-rail-empire-maker.html+Jay+Gould&scp=1&st=p |publisher=Associated Press in The New York Times |date=April 1, 1956 |access-date=2008-04-06 }}</ref>
His paternal grandparents were Mary (née More) Gould and John Burr Gould from Roxbury, New York.<ref name="Todd1902">{{Cite book|last=Todd|first=Charles Burr|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dk8bAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA273-IA2|title=A General History of the Burr Family: With a Genealogical Record from 1193 to 1902|date=1902|publisher=author|language=en}}</ref> His maternal grandparents were Daniel Stratton Miller and Ann Kip (née Bailey) Miller, who were prominent members of New York society.<ref name="Hutto2017">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_20JDgAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA106|title=The Kaiser's Confidante: Mary Lee, the First American-Born Princess|last=Hutto|first=Richard Jay|date=2017-01-10|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476665726|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Klein">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oetqt4uqaJsC&pg=PA73|title=The Life and Legend of Jay Gould|last=Klein|first=Maury|date=1997-10-29|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=9780801857713|location=Baltimore|pages=73, 74, 75|language=en}}</ref>
Gould was educated at Columbia College, where he matriculated with the class of 1894 but did not graduate, according to official records.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z8BBAAAAYAAJ&q=gould&pg=PP5|title=Catalogue of Matriculants who Have Not Graduated, 1758-1897|date=1897|publisher=Columbia University|location=New York City|pages=36|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.|url=https://worldcat.org/oclc/822968894|title=Autobiography of Mark Twain : the complete and authoritative edition.|date=2010|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-94699-6|pages=562|oclc=822968894}}</ref>
==Career== On February 24, 1898, Gould purchased a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and maintained an office at 195 Broadway in New York.<ref name="King1899">{{cite book |last1=King |first1=Moses |title=Notable New Yorkers of 1896-1899: A Companion Volume to King's Handbook of New York City |date=1899 |publisher=M. King |page=566 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z-lYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA566 |access-date=10 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref> By 1955, his seat was the second oldest on the Exchange and he maintained it until his death in 1959.<ref name=HGObit1929/>
He served as a director of many railroad, telegraph and financial firms, including the Missouri Pacific Railway Co., Texas and Pacific Railway Co., Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railway, Kansas City Northwestern Railroad Co., Western Union Telegraph Co., International and Great Northern Railroad Co., Manhattan Railway Co., St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Co., Rio Grande Southern Railroad Co., Rio Grande Western Railroad Co., St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co., Western Maryland Railway Co., American Pneumatic Service Co.,<ref name="USGPO1917">{{cite book |last1=Service |first1=United States Congress Joint Commission to Investigate the Pneumatic-Tube Mail |title=Development of the Pneumatic-tube and Automobile Mail Service: Excerpts from Reports of the Postmasters General and Their Assistants to Congress; Various Departmental and Congressional Commission Reports, Including Certain Testimony, and Sundry Exhibits Relative to the Pneumatic-tube and Automobile Mail Service |date=1917 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |page=310 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=efgsAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA310 |access-date=10 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref> New York Mail and Newspaper Transportation Co.,<ref name="FourthEstate1898">{{cite book |title=Fourth Estate: A Weekly Newspaper for Publishers, Advertisers, Advertising Agents and Allied Interests |date=1898 |publisher=Fourth Estate Publishing Company |page=36 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sedvt24UYF0C&pg=RA36-PA1 |access-date=10 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref> and the Gold & Stock Telegraph Co.<ref name="Moody's1910">{{cite book |title=Moody's Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities |date=1910 |publisher=Moody Publishing Company |pages= 358, 622, 628, 1088, 1767, 1874 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rgo_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1874 |access-date=10 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
==Yachting== Gould was a competitive yachtsman and owned several vessels.
=== SV ''Niagara'' === In 1895, Gould commissioned a {{convert|65|ft|m|adj=on}} sloop named ''Niagara''. The yacht was designed and built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in Bristol, Rhode Island. He won Lord Dunraven's challenge cup with ''Niagara''.<ref name="HGObit1929" />
=== SY ''Niagara'' === [[File:Niagara; the old and the new (1899) 00blan 0015.jpg|thumb|right|Gould's 1898 steam yacht ''Niagara'']]thumb|Gould at his desk on the 1898 ''Niagara''Gould also owned a large steam yacht, also called ''Niagara'', which was built in 1898 by Harlan and Hollingsworth in Wilmington, Delaware. In 1912, he installed a Welte Philharmonic Organ aboard the ship. On August 10, 1917, the U.S. Navy purchased her and converted her into an armed patrol yacht. She was commissioned in the Tebo's Yacht Basin, Brooklyn, New York on 16 April 1918, Commander E.B. Larimer in command.<ref name="DANFS">{{cite web |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/n/niagara-vi.html |title=Niagara VI (S. P. 136) |author=Naval History And Heritage Command |date=February 10, 2016 |work=Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships |publisher=Naval History And Heritage Command |access-date=14 November 2018}}</ref>
=== ''Vamoose'' === In 1901 Gould purchased the well-known steam yacht ''Vamoose''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CHc0AAAAMAAJ|title=Yacht Register|publisher=Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping|year=1901|location=London|pages=895}}</ref> Built in 1891 by Herreshoff for media magnate William Randolph Hearst, the yacht was well-publicized due to her racing pedigree and a series of high-profile speed trials against other yachts around New York City in the early 1890s.<ref name=":022">{{Cite news|date=September 12, 1891|title=What the Vamoose Can Do|work=The New York Times|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1891/09/12/106053120.pdf|access-date={{today}}}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=September 29, 1891|title=There Will Be a Race|work=The New York Times|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1891/09/29/103339209.pdf|access-date={{today}}}}</ref>
==Personal life== In 1894, Gould was engaged to marry actress Odette Tyler, but both of their families objected, and the engagement was broken.<ref name="1894Opposition">{{cite news |title=OPPOSED BY BROTHERS AND SISTERS.; Miss Tyler Says Howard Gould's Relatives Objected, to their Engagement. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1894/04/13/archives/opposed-by-brothers-and-sisters-miss-tyler-says-howard-goulds.html |access-date=10 April 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=13 April 1894}}</ref><ref name="1894Engaged">{{cite news |title=HOWARD GOULD MAY MARRY MISS TYLER.; He Is Still Engaged to the Actress, Manager Gilmore Believes. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1894/11/09/archives/howard-gould-may-marry-miss-tyler-he-is-still-engaged-to-the.html |access-date=10 April 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=9 November 1894}}</ref><ref name="1894Correspond">{{cite news |title=DOES NOT CORRESPOND WITH GOULD; Odette Tyler Talks of Her Future Plans in Virginia. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1894/06/02/archives/does-not-correspond-with-gould-odette-tyler-talks-of-her-future.html |access-date=10 April 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=2 June 1894}}</ref><ref>Russell, Don. ''The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill'', p. 433</ref>
On October 12, 1898, he married Katherine Clemmons (1874–1930).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1898/10/13/page/1/article/wed-in-secret-and-sail-away |title=WED IN SECRET AND SAIL AWAY |newspaper=The Chicago Daily Tribune |date=October 13, 1898}}</ref><ref name="1898Wedding">{{cite news |title=HOWARD GOULD MARRIES; He Takes as His Wife Miss Kathrine Clemmons, an Actress. FAMILY HAD OPPOSED MATCH He May Lose Part of His Inheritance in Consequence -- Off for Wedding Cruise. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1898/10/13/archives/howard-gould-marries-he-takes-as-his-wife-miss-kathrine-clemmons-an.html |access-date=10 April 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=13 October 1898}}</ref> She was an actress whose career had been heavily subsidized by William F. Cody.<ref name="1907Confession">{{cite news |title=PEABODY CONFESSES IN GOULD CASE; Tells How Police Sought Evidence to be Used in a Divorce Suit. TURNS ON McLAUGHLIN Howard Gould's Lawyer Also Admits That Detectives Made Reports to Him on the Case. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1907/05/24/archives/peabody-confesses-in-gould-case-tells-how-police-sought-evidence-to.html |access-date=10 April 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=24 May 1907}}</ref> She filed for a divorce in 1907,<ref name="1907Suit">{{cite news |title=MRS. HOWARD GOULD TO SUE FOR DIVORCE; Action of Former Actress Against Her Husband to be Begun This Week. DESERTION ONE CHARGE Couple Have Not Lived Together Since Last July -- Both Have Employed Detectives. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1907/05/13/archives/mrs-howard-gould-to-sue-for-divorce-action-of-former-actress.html |access-date=10 April 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=13 May 1907}}</ref> which was finalized in 1909, and Howard charged her with infidelity, naming Cody.<ref name="1909Cody">{{cite news |title=MRS. GOULD'S JAUNTS WITH DUSTIN FARNUM; Mostly Auto Trips, She Assures Cross-Examiner, Though She Met Actor at Various Places. ASKED ABOUT COL. CODY Denies That She "Traveled with His Show" -- Her Serenity Makes Mr. Nicoll Forget to be Polite. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1909/06/12/archives/mrs-goulds-jaunts-with-dustin-farnum-mostly-auto-trips-she-assures.html |access-date=10 April 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=12 June 1909}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Sordid Troubles of the Rich |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Howard_Gould_(1871-1959)_in_the_Covington_Sun_on_April_16,_1908.jpg |newspaper=Covington Sun |date=April 16, 1908 }}</ref><ref name="1909Woes">{{cite news |title=MRS. HOWARD GOULD TELLS MARITAL WOES; Husband Offered Her a Divorce and to Furnish a Co-respondent, She Testifies in Her Suit. HER LIFE AT CASTLE GOULD Daily Insults from Employe of Husband Her Portion, She Says -- Spent Nearly $800,000 Before Separation. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1909/06/11/archives/mrs-howard-gould-tells-marital-woes-husband-offered-her-a-divorce-a.html |access-date=10 April 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=11 June 1909}}</ref> Despite the allegations leveled at his wife in the divorce proceedings, Gould was ordered to pay $36,000 per year in alimony (approximately ${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|36000|1909|r=-3}}}} today). It was the largest alimony settlement ordered up to that time.<ref>{{cite news |title=Katherine Clemmons Drives Ten Miles at Night to Seek Aid of a Doctor |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/11/05/104953070.pdf |work=New York Times |date=November 5, 1910 |access-date=2010-06-21 }}</ref> She died in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1930.<ref name="MrsGould1930">{{cite news |title=MRS. HOWARD GOULD DIES IN VIRGINIA; Former Katherine Clemmons, Actress, Long Retired, Succumbs at Blue Gap Farm at 56. WON HER SEPARATION SUIT Theatrical Ventures Here WereBacked by Col. William F. Cody-- Entertained Kaiser and Czar. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1930/12/25/archives/mrs-howard-gould-dies-in-virginia-former-katherine-clemmons-actress.html |access-date=10 April 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=25 December 1930}}</ref>
In 1937, he married the actress Grete Mosheim in Klagenfurt, having been a financier/producer on at least one of her London stage appearances.<ref name="1937Wedding">{{cite news |title=HOWARD COULD, SON OF FINANCIER, WEDS; Marries Margarete Mosheim, Daughter of Berlin Couple, in Klagenfurt, Austria |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/05/19/archives/howard-could-son-of-financier-weds-marries-margarete-mosheim.html |access-date=10 April 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=19 May 1937}}</ref> They divorced in 1947.<ref name="1947Divorce">{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Special to THE NEW YORK |title=HOWARD GOULD DIVORCED; Decree Granted to Austrian Actress He Married in 1937 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1947/01/14/archives/howard-gould-divorced-decree-granted-to-austrian-actress-he-married.html |access-date=10 April 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=14 January 1947}}</ref>
Gould died at Doctors Hospital in Manhattan on September 13, 1959, aged 88. He was his parents' last surviving son. He was buried in the Gould Mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx.<ref name=HGObit1929>{{cite news |title=Howard Gould Dies Here At 88. Last Surviving Son Of Jay Gould, Rail Financier, Yachtsman, Auto Racer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1959/09/15/archives/howard-gould-dies-here-at-88-last-surviving-son-of-jay-gould-rail.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 15, 1959 |access-date=2007-06-21 }}</ref>
=== Residence === [[File:HempsteadHouseSandsPoint.jpg|thumb|right|Hempstead House.]] {{Further|Hempstead House}} In 1901, Gould purchased undeveloped land in Sands Point to build a new home for his wife Katherine Clemmons. After Howard and Katherine separated in 1909, he continued to build the estate, using Hunt & Hunt to design an English Tudor style mansion. The 40-room house, one of the more elaborate of the Gold Coast of Long Island estates, is {{convert|225|ft|m}} long and {{convert|125|ft|m}} wide, with an {{convert|80|ft|m|adj=on}} tower. The first and second floors measure over 1 and 1/2 acres and the home, which Gould called Hempstead House, was an exact copy of Kilkenny Castle in Ireland.<ref name="1971Estate"/>
Howard moved to Europe in 1917 and sold the estate to Daniel Guggenheim and his family. The estate, which had cost Gould over $1 million, sold for only $600,000, including the furnishing. In 1971, Nassau County took over a 128‐acre portion of the estate from the Federal Government to be used as a nature preserve.<ref name="1971Estate">{{cite news |title=Nassau Takes Over the Guggenheim 'Castle' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/14/archives/nassau-takes-over-the-guggenheim-castle.html |access-date=10 April 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=14 March 1971}}</ref> The mansion later underwent a $10 million renovation.<ref name="Waite1988">{{cite news |last1=Waite |first1=Thomas L. |title=POSTINGS: Dissecting a Nassau Mansion; A $10 Million, 10-Year Restoration |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/18/realestate/postings-dissecting-a-nassau-mansion-a-10-million-10-year-restoration.html |access-date=10 April 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=18 September 1988}}</ref>
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==External links== {{commons category|Howard Gould}}{{commons category|Niagara (ship, 1898)}} *{{find a Grave|7811802}}
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