George Jay Gould I

George Jay Gould I (February 6, 1864 – May 16, 1923) was a financier and the son of Jay Gould. He was himself a railroad executive, leading both the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (DRGW) and the Western Pacific Railroad (WP).

Birth, marriage and children

George was the son of Jay Gould (1836–1892) and Helen Day Miller (1838–1889). He married Edith M. Kingdon (1864–1921), a stage actress, and had the following children:

• Kingdon Gould, Sr. (1887–1945) who married Annunziata Camilla Maria Lucci (1890–1961)
• Jay Gould II (1888–1935) who was a tennis player and who married Anne Douglass Graham
• Marjorie Gould (1891–1955) who married Anthony Joseph Drexel II
• Helen Vivien Gould (1893–1931) who married John Graham Hope DeLaPoer Horsley Beresford (1866–1945)
• George Jay Gould II (1896-?) who married Laura Carter
• Edith Catherine Gould (1901–1937) who married Carroll Livingston Wainwright I (1899–1967) and after a divorce married Sir Hector Murray MacNeal
• Gloria Gould (1906–1943) who married Henry A. Bishop II, and after a divorce married Walter McFarlane Barker

George Gould also had a mistress, Guinevere Jeanne Sinclair, and had the following children with her:

• Jane Sinclair Gould
• George Sinclair Gould
• Guinevere Gould

These children were given the Gould name at the death of Edith Kingdon Gould in...
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