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In 1867, Jay Gould fought Commodore Vanderbilt for control of the Erie Railroad with Jim Fisk and Daniel Drew and won. The « Erie War » captured the attention of the whole country.

In 1869 Jay Gould and Fisk tried to corner the gold supply of the United States. This cause a massive depression in the United States for several years.

Jason Gould was born May 27 in Roxbury, New York. He went to work as a surveyor, then entered the tannery business. During the 1860s, Gould bought stock in small railroads. He later became manager of the Rennsalaer and Saratoga Railway and a guiding force behind the Rutland and Washington Railway. 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. Gould used every underhanded trick, from bribing public officials to massively watering stock. Later in 1869, Gould and his partners attempted to corner the gold market, but their scheme fell apart on [|Black Friday]. The public was enraged and thousands of investors were ruined. In 1872, following Fisk's death, Gould was forced out as a director of the Erie. Over the next few years, Gould focused his attention on the West. Using his extensive wealth, Gould bought his way into control of the [|Union Pacific] and other smaller lines in the Southwest. By the early 1880s, Gould’s empire comprised nearly 16,000 miles of track. In 1882, he sold his interest in the [|Union Pacific]. He turned his financial talents toward the Missouri Pacific Railroad, [|Western Union Telegraph Company], newspapers, and elevated trains in [|New York City]. Rich, but lonely, he worked until the end, diverted only by his books and gardens, and died of tuberculosis. 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. EARLY LIFE The son of John Gould and Mary More. His father was a farmer and a storekeeper, and Jay, as a small boy, grew up on a farm. He realized at a young age, however, that farm work was not to his liking. He received some education in a local school. Later, while working in his father's store, he taught himself surveying (mapping land) and mathematics at night. When he was just sixteen he started a survey business. Between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one he helped prepare maps of New York's southern counties. At twenty-one Gould invested five thousand dollars, and he and a partner opened a business tanning leather in northern Pennsylvania.

__//**Philanthropist**//__ The eldest daughter, Hellen Miller Gould (b. 1868), became widely known as a philanthropist, and particularly for her generous gifts to American army hospitals in the war with Spain in 1898 and for her many contributions to New York University, to which she gave $250,000 for a library in 1895 and $100,000 for a Hall of Fame in 1900.

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