Family

He married Sarah Cantine Shrady (c. 1870-1951). She inherited $US 10,000,000 upon his death. They had two sons:

• Edwin Gould, Jr., (1894-1917). He died on Jekyll Island
  Jekyll Island
  Jekyll Island is an island off the coast of the U.S. state of Georgia, in Glynn County; it is one of the Sea Islands and one of the Golden Isles of Georgia. The city of Brunswick, Georgia, the Marshes of Glynn, and several other islands, including the larger St. Simons Island, are nearby...
  
   in 1917.
• Frank Miller Gould (c. 1895-1945). He graduated from Yale in 1920 and married Florence Amelia Bacon on November 17, 1924. She was from Dallas, Texas
  Dallas, Texas
  Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
  
  . They had two children: Marianne Gould (1926- Jan. 21, 1957); and Edwin Jay Gould (1932- ). Frank died on January 13, 1945.

Death

He retired in 1926, and he died on July 12, 1933. After dinner he complained of not feeling well, and died after midnight in his bed, at his home in Oyster Bay, New York. He was buried in the family mausoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery

Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx

Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in New York City and is a designated National Historic Landmark.A rural cemetery located in the Bronx, it opened in 1863, in what was then southern Westchester County, in an area that was annexed to New York City in 1874.The cemetery covers more...

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Accomplishments

• Chosen a captain in the Seventy-first regiment of the State National Guard.
• Served as secretary of the St. Louis, Arkansas, and Texas Railway until it was reorganized as the St. Louis and Southwestern.
• Served as vice-president and President of the St Louis and Southwestern railroad.
• Organized the Continental Match Company in 1894 (consolidated with the Diamond Match Company in 1899).
• President of the Bowling Green Trust Company.
• Vice-president of the American Writing Paper Company.
• President of the Five Boroughs Realty Company.
• Director of many railroad and other corporations.
• In 1917-1918, he served with Squadron A, New York National Guard.
• In 1918, he was major of ordnance in the First Brigade of the New York guard,