The Wizard of Wall Street and His Wealth; or, The Life and Deeds of Jay GouldWhite, Trumbull
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The Wizard of Wall Street and His Wealth; or, The Life and Deeds of Jay Gould
White, Trumbull
Businessmen -- United States -- Biography; Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography; Gould, Jay, 1836-1892
Chauncey M. Depew, President, and H. Walter Webb, Third Vice-President,
of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad; H. G. Marquand,
Collis P. Huntington, a Director of the Western Union Telegraph
Company; John Bigelow, Addison Cammack, Henry Villard, Henry Clews,
Simon Wormser, a Director of the Manhattan Elevated Company; Herbert
H. Dickson, Mr. Gould’s personal lawyer; J. Pierpont Morgan, a Western
Union Director; William H. Blackford, representative of Charles F.
Mayer, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; Whitelaw Reid,
John H. Inman, William D. Bishop, of New Haven, a Western Union
Director; Jesse Seligman, Mr. and Mrs. James Seligman, Mrs. Helman, Dr.
Virgil P. Gibney and mother, Dr. Jarrett Baldwin, Mrs. B. S. Clark,
ex-Senator and Mrs. John J. Kiernan, Judge Rufus B. Cowing, of the
Court of General Sessions; Dr. Matthew D. Field, Sidney Dillon Ripley,
William H. Kissam, J. Seaver Page, ex-Governor Alonzo B. Cornell, a
Western Union Director; J. H. Villard, Alexander Miller, Frank Kernan,
J. M. Morgan, James Gurnie, John D. Crimmins, J. C. Pierce, Gen. G.
M. Dodge, A. S. Hopkins, Gen. Louis Fitzgerald,. Ogden Mills, C. C.
Baldwin, F. K. Sturgis, Cornelius N. Bliss, Benjamin Brewster, William
Rockefeller, E. P. Vining, Maughan Carter, a relative of Mrs. Gould,
and Reid Northrup and Daniel Northrup, nephews of Mr. Gould.
Every one of those who saw the face remarked afterward upon its extreme
naturalness. The beard had been cut rather shorter than Mr. Gould wore
it in life, and that and the displacement of the swarthiness of his
complexion by the death pallor were the only changes in his appearance.
The many rare flowers were placed surrounding the casket. The most
beautiful was a floral cross which Miss Helen Gould had ordered. It was
composed of pink orchids tied with a silk ribbon, and was placed on
top of the coffin. Next to it was a bunch of bride roses from Howard
Gould. A five-foot broken column of white roses, crowned by violets,
with the word “Father” in violets at the base, stood at the head of the
coffin on a table. It was from George Gould. Miss Annie Gould sent a
bunch of white orchids, Edwin Gould a wreath of lilies of the valley,
bride roses and orchids; Frank Gould a bunch of lilies of the valley
and orchids, and George Gould’s children an enormous pillow of orchids,
roses, lilies of the valley and violets, with the word “Grandpa” in the
center. This rested on the floor beneath the coffin.
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