George Jay Gould II

Gould was born on March 28, 1896, in Manhattan, New York City. He was one of seven children born to millionaire George Jay Gould I (1864–1923){{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. GEORGE J. GOULD DIES IN VILLA IN FRANCE |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/05/17/archives/george-j-gould-dies-in-villa-in-france-leaves-30000000-with-his.html |access-date=27 September 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=17 May 1923 |archive-date=27 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927190717/https://www.nytimes.com/1923/05/17/archives/george-j-gould-dies-in-villa-in-france-leaves-30000000-with-his.html |url-status=live }} and former actress Edith Kingdon Gould (1864–1921).{{cite news|title=MRS. CARL F. WOLFF|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1960/03/14/archives/mrs-carl-f-wolff.html|access-date=August 8, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=March 14, 1960|archive-date=June 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618210901/https://www.nytimes.com/1960/03/14/archives/mrs-carl-f-wolff.html|url-status=live}} Among his siblings were Kingdon Gould Sr., Jay Gould II, Marjorie Gwynne Gould (wife of Anthony Joseph Drexel III), Helen Vivien Gould (wife of John Beresford, 5th Baron Decies), Edith Catherine Gould, and Gloria Gould (wife of Henry A. Bishop II and Wallace McFarlane Barker).{{cite news |title=The Goulds Are Going |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,881484,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202080030/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,881484,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 2, 2008 |quote= Of the seven older children by his first marriage — Kingdon, Jay, George Jay Jr., Marjorie, Vivien, Edith, Gloria — three eloped, one married an English nobleman, and one the daughter of a Hawaiian princess. |publisher=Time |date= March 23, 1925|access-date=August 21, 2007 }}

His namesake father was the eldest son of the former Helen Day Miller and Jay Gould, a leading American railroad developer and speculator who has been referred to as one of the ruthless robber barons of the Gilded Age, whose success at business made him one of the richest men of his era.{{cite book|author=Maury Klein|title=The Life and Legend of Jay Gould|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oetqt4uqaJsC&pg=PA393|year=1997|page=393|isbn=9780801857713}} His aunt, Anna Gould, was married to two European aristocrats, Boni de Castellane (the elder son and heir apparent of the Marquis of Castellane) and Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, Duke of Sagan (Boni's cousin).{{cite news |last1=Foreman |first1=John |title=Big Old Houses: In a Very Different World |url=https://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/big-old-houses-in-a-very-different-world/ |access-date=27 September 2021 |work=New York Social Diary |date=3 March 2021 |archive-date=27 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927183821/https://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/big-old-houses-in-a-very-different-world/ |url-status=live }}

Gould graduated from Columbia University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa (and had honors in French and History),{{cite book |title=Catalogue |date=1918 |publisher=Columbia University |page=272 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gh8ZAAAAYAAJ |access-date=27 September 2021 |language=en}} and Columbia Law School.

After graduating from Columbia Law School, he went to Oil City, Pennsylvania, in February 1918 to work for the Galena Signal Oil Company. He later returned to New York City and began working at Liggett, Drexel & Co., the brokerage firm of his brother-in-law, Anthony Joseph Drexel III.{{cite news |title=G.J. GOULD, JR., GETS JOB WITH BROTHER-IN-LAW; Will Learn Business from the Ground Up in Firm of Liggett, Drexel & Co. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1917/07/29/archives/gj-gould-jr-gets-job-with-brotherinlaw-will-learn-business-from-the.html |access-date=22 June 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=29 July 1917 |archive-date=26 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200626035319/https://www.nytimes.com/1917/07/29/archives/gj-gould-jr-gets-job-with-brotherinlaw-will-learn-business-from-the.html |url-status=live }}

For many years, Gould lived in Camden, Maine. He also maintained an apartment in Paris, a château in Mons, France (he owned the Petit Manoir in Maxilly-sur-Léman from 1930 to 1952) and a villa in San Remo, Italy.

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On July 5, 1917, a few days after his brother Kingdon married, Gould was married to Laura Marguerite Carter of Ardena, New Jersey,{{cite news |title=GOULDS' HONEYMOON HERE.; Geo. J., Jr., and Bride Also Planned a Visit to His Parents. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1917/07/08/archives/goulds-honeymoon-here-geo-j-jr-and-bride-also-planned-a-visit-to.html |access-date=27 September 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=8 July 1917 |archive-date=27 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927202155/https://www.nytimes.com/1917/07/08/archives/goulds-honeymoon-here-geo-j-jr-and-bride-also-planned-a-visit-to.html |url-status=live }} to the disapproval of his parents.{{cite news |title=G. J. GOULD, JR.,WEDS, AVOIDING PUBLIC AS BROTHER DID; Meets Bride in Philadelphia and "Marrying Parson" Performs Ceremony. HIS PARENTS ARE ABSENT But Bride, an Orphan, Says They Knew of Prospective Nuptials. WEDDING PLANS HURRIED Date Was Set Within a Week, Mrs.Gould Asserts;-She Is Skilled as a Dancer. Bride Skilled as a Dancer. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1917/07/06/archives/g-j-gould-jrweds-avoiding-public-as-brother-did-meets-bride-in.html |access-date=27 September 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=6 July 1917 |archive-date=27 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927185842/https://www.nytimes.com/1917/07/06/archives/g-j-gould-jrweds-avoiding-public-as-brother-did-meets-bride-in.html |url-status=live }} She was the niece of Maughan Carter.{{cite news |title=MAUGHAN CARTER DEAD.; Former New Yorker Stricken in Toronto--Burial Here Today. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1929/05/16/archives/maughan-carter-dead-former-new-yorker-stricken-in-torontoburial.html |access-date=27 September 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=16 May 1929 |archive-date=27 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927200537/https://www.nytimes.com/1929/05/16/archives/maughan-carter-dead-former-new-yorker-stricken-in-torontoburial.html |url-status=live }} Before their divorce in Nice, France in 1923, they were the parents of two sons:{{cite news |title=SON TO GEO. J. GOULD, JR.; The Second Born to Mrs. Gould, Who Was Miss Laura M. Carter. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1920/01/28/archives/son-to-geo-j-gould-jr-the-second-born-to-mrs-gould-who-was-miss.html |access-date=27 September 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=28 January 1920}}

• George Jay Gould III (1918–1985), who married Eileen O'Malley (1919–1996), the daughter of Leonard O'Malley,{{cite news |title=TROTH IS ANNOUNCED OF ElLEEN O'MALLEY; She Will Become the Bride of George J. Goald Jr. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/12/19/archives/troth-is-announced-of-elleen-omalley-she-will-become-the-bride-of.html |access-date=27 September 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=19 December 1941 |archive-date=27 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927200829/https://www.nytimes.com/1941/12/19/archives/troth-is-announced-of-elleen-omalley-she-will-become-the-bride-of.html |url-status=live }} in 1942.{{cite news |title=EILEEN O'MALLEY MARRIED IN MAINE; New York Girl Becomes Bride of George Jay Gould Jr. in Church at Camden GOWNED IN IVORY SATIN Mrs. Maughan Gould Her Only Attendant--Bridegroom Is With Army Air Corps |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1942/01/04/archives/eile-omalley-married-in-maine-new-york-girl-becomes-bride-of-george.html |access-date=27 September 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=4 January 1942 |archive-date=27 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927185700/https://www.nytimes.com/1942/01/04/archives/eile-omalley-married-in-maine-new-york-girl-becomes-bride-of-george.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=Gould Heir on K.P. in Australia |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1942/04/13/archives/gould-heir-on-kp-in-australia.html |access-date=27 September 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=13 April 1942 |archive-date=27 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927184222/https://www.nytimes.com/1942/04/13/archives/gould-heir-on-kp-in-australia.html |url-status=live }}
• Maughan Carter Gould (1920–1986), who married Suzanne Florence "Sukie" Close (1920–1989) in 1940.{{cite news |title=Suzanne Close Married; Secret Wedding to Maughan Gould Announced by Her Mother |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/11/03/archives/suzanne-close-married-secret-wedding-to-maughan-gould-announced-by.html |access-date=27 September 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=3 November 1940}}

After their divorce, Laura married, and later divorced, English actor Roy Royston.{{cite news |title=Mrs. Laura Carter Gould Reported Engaged In London to Actor in Musical Comedy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1927/12/08/archives/mrs-laura-carter-gould-reported-engaged-in-london-to-actor-in.html |access-date=27 September 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=8 December 1927 |archive-date=27 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927185702/https://www.nytimes.com/1927/12/08/archives/mrs-laura-carter-gould-reported-engaged-in-london-to-actor-in.html |url-status=live }} In 1927, he married Marie Louise Jacqueline Vial (1896–1969) of Paris who had been born in Claveisolles in the Rhône department in eastern France.{{cite web |title=George Jay Gould II (1896-1963), premier patron de Silver Wings {{!}} Silver Wings |url=https://www.silver-wings.fr/george-jay-gould-ii-premier-patron-de-silver-wings/ |website=silver-wings.fr |access-date=27 September 2021 |language=fr-FR |date=February 18, 2015 |archive-date=27 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927183822/https://www.silver-wings.fr/george-jay-gould-ii-premier-patron-de-silver-wings/ |url-status=live }} Together, they were the parents of two sons:

• Howard Jay Gould (1928–1998), who married in December 1951.
• Patrick Jay Gould (1934–2018), an ornithologist who received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona.{{cite web |title=Gould, Patrick J. |url=https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/auth_per_fbr_eacp63 |website=siarchives.si.edu |publisher=Smithsonian Institution Archives |access-date=27 September 2021 |language=en |date=1934 |archive-date=27 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927183830/https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/auth_per_fbr_eacp63 |url-status=live }}

Gould died on June 7, 1963, in Paris following an operation.{{cite news |title=George J. Gould, 67, Dead; Was Financier's Grandson |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1963/06/08/archives/george-j-gould-67-dead-was-financiers-grandson.html |access-date=27 September 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=8 June 1963 |archive-date=27 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927185656/https://www.nytimes.com/1963/06/08/archives/george-j-gould-67-dead-was-financiers-grandson.html |url-status=live }} His widow died in 1969.

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George Jay Gould II