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Early career. Jay Gould ( right) in 1855. Gould's school principal was credited with getting him a job as a bookkeeper for a blacksmith. [10] 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.
Jul 30, 2022 · Jay Gould’s Machiavellian moves led enraged investors to not only punch him at Delmonico’s, but throw him down a set of Broadway stairs, and threaten him with a pistol.
Jul 9, 2019 · Jay Gould (born Jason Gould; May 27, 1836–December 2, 1892) was a businessman who came to personify the robber baron in the late 19th century. Over the course of his career, Gould made and lost several fortunes as a railroad executive, financier, and speculator.
Jay Gould (born May 27, 1836, Roxbury, New York, U.S.—died December 2, 1892, New York, New York) was an American railroad executive, financier, and speculator. He was an important railroad developer who was one of the most unscrupulous “robber barons” of 19th-century American capitalism.
Jason “Jay” Gould, known as one of the ruthless “robber barons” of the nineteenth century American capitalism, was a famed railroad developer, financier and speculator. Starting his career as a surveyor in the state of New York, he did not take long to become the deadliest speculator and the largest railroad developer of his time.
The Gould family is a wealthy American family that came to prominence in the late 19th century. The family's fortune was primarily earned through a railroad empire built by Jason "Jay" Gould, a notorious "robber baron" during the Gilded Age.
May 21, 2018 · American financier and railroad builder Jay Gould (1836-1892) began as an unprincipled stock manipulator and became one of the most acute businessmen in America's age of industrial capitalism. He operated in an era when speculative capital could play a constructive role.
American financier and railroad builder Jay Gould made a fortune by controlling the price of the stocks he bought as well as the stock market itself. He later became one of the shrewdest businessmen in American industry.
Sep 24, 2014 · Jay Gould and a few other conspirators had been secretly stockpiling gold since August, but upon learning that the fix was in, they disguised their identities behind an army of brokers and ...
Jay Gould's reputation as one of the leading robber barons of the era was assured by his actions as a director of the Erie Railroad. In 1869, he worked with allies James Fisk and Daniel Drew to combat Cornelius Vanderbilt 's acquisition of the railroad in the infamous Erie War.
