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ns, of which probably the most popular were 

 a IV" m Home,'' When .l<>hnn\ 



inurcliiliir Home,'' "The Voice of the Departing Soul, 



. h's at the Door," which was performed at his 



funeral, the anthems Columbia" and ' Ireland to 



d,'' and a national air for the Republic of 



Bmil. 



Goldie, Matthew, college proctor, born in Edinburgh, 



Scotland, in IM:;; died in Philadelphia, Pa., N 



In early life he entered the service of t! 

 [adia Company, and served with the Madras Artillery 

 through the great mutiny. Removing to the United 



he entered the navy at the beginning of the 

 civil war and served till the close. In 18"0 ho was 

 apjH>inted proctor of the College of Now Jersey at 

 Princeton, and when the growth of the college i 

 sitatcd the employment of other proctors he was 

 elected proctor-m-chief. 



Gould, Jay, capitalist, born in Roxbury, Delaware 

 County, N. Y., May 27, 1836; died in New York city, 



. 1892. He was brought up on his father's farm, 

 studied in Hobart Academy, became bookkeeper for 

 a village blacksmith, acquiring a taste for mathemat- 

 ics and surveying, and found employment in making 

 surveys for a map of Ulster County. In 1853 he com- 

 plete. I a survey of Albany County, in 1854 made a 

 survey and ma'p of Delaware County, and afterward 

 organized parties to make county surveys in Ohio 

 and Michigan. Subsequently he was employed by 

 Xadock Pratt to select a site in the western part of 

 New York for a tannery, and afterward ho superin- 

 tended the erection of buildings and was associated 

 with Mr. Pratt in the lumbering business. He bought 

 out Mr. Pratt's interest and conducted the business 

 till shortly before the panic of 1857, when he sold his 

 plant, removed to Stroudsburg, Pa., and became con- 

 nected with the bank there. While engaged in bank- 

 ing ho began his railroad career by buying bonds of 

 the Rutland and Washington Railroad at the rate of 

 10 cents on the dollar. He soon afterward became 

 president, treasurer, and (superintendent of the road, 

 subsequently consolidated it with the Rensseluer and 

 Saratoga Railroad, and, after a brief experience as 

 manager, withdrew his capital and removed to New 

 York city, where he engaged in brokerage, dealing at 

 lirst in the stocks and bonds of the Erie Railway. In 

 association with James Fisk, Jr., he entered the di- 

 rectory of the company in 1868, was elected president, 

 with Fisk as vice-president and treasurer, and held 

 the office till the reorganization of the company in 

 1872. A long litigation ensued between the company 

 and the English bondholders, which resulted in Mr. 

 Gould's being compelled to restore securities repre- 

 sc.nting $7,550,000, a part of the amount which he was 

 charged with having misappropriated while president 

 of the company. After becoming president of the Erie 

 company he made large purchases of stocks of various 

 railroad companies, mainly in the Southwest; invest- 

 ed la rifely in telegraph stock; and after being forced 

 out of the company lie gave his attention chiefly to 

 the Pacific railroad lines that he hod become interest- 

 ed in, to the Western Union Telegraph Company, and 

 to the elevated railroad system in New York. Ho 

 took several railroad companies out of the hands of 

 receivers, built many branch lines, and effected com- 

 binations that resulted in the establishment of what 

 was known as the "Gould system." In March. 1^-j, 

 by reason of the pending financial excitement and a 

 doubt of his financial standing, he summoned several 

 financiers to his private office and exhibited to them 



ates of stocks, all registered in his own name, 

 to the lace value of $58,000,000, and said he could 

 produce $20,000,000 more if they still doubted his 

 financial ability. His name was intimately connected 

 \yith many of toe largest railroad and financial opera- 

 tions of the past twenty years, as well as with the 

 "Black Friday " and otlier great financial sensations. 

 In his will he gave small amounts of monev and real 

 estate to various relatives, and after disposing of his 

 domestic property among his children, gave to his 

 son, George J. Gould, $5,000,000 as special compensa- 



tion for his services during the laM live yearn in tak- 

 ing charge of Inn father's varied intercut*, and 

 ed that the rest of his estate bo divided into 6 equal 

 shares, to lie. held in trust and inve.-tcd for the l-in-tit 

 of his children. He- prohibited his children from l>< 

 queathing any part of their shares to any but their 

 own issue, and from marrying without the consent of 

 a majority of them. In all cases of controversy among 

 his children atlecting the various properties, he de- 

 clared that the judgment of his son George J. Gould 

 should be authoritative. On Dec. 1-j his will was 

 ottered for probate, when tin: executors swore to real 

 property in the State valued at $2,000,000 and personal 

 property aggregating $70,000,000. There was nothing 

 in the abstract of his will which was published by 

 the executors to indicate that he had left a dollar to 

 any servant, friend, or charitable, religious, or educa- 

 tional institution. 



Green, George fleming, inventor, born in Montreal, 

 Canada, March 2(5, 1&32; died in Kalamazco, Mich., 

 June 7, 1892. He accompanied his parents to the 

 site of the present city of Chicago when seven weeks 

 old, and before he was ten years old was taught by 

 his father the cabinet-making trade. While ehating 

 under the restraints of an uncongenial occupation he 

 found relief in secretly studying electricity. When 

 fourteen years old he entered a machine shop in Chi- 

 cago, where ho attracted attention as a draughtsman, 

 and two years afterward began teaching mechanical 

 drawing. About 1852 he went to Kalamazoo to at- 

 tend college, and finding his expenses larger than ho 

 anticipated, ho began his career as an inventor, to 

 raise funds to enable him to continue his special 

 studies. Among the results of his inventive skill 

 were the first wire and cord binder ever used for har- 

 vesting in the United States ; a complete outfit of 

 dental instruments to be operated by electricity ; the 

 cash care now in general use in large stores for con- 

 veying cash from the clerks to the cashier and back ; 

 and an application of electric motors to sewing ma- 

 chines. The expenses of his various experiments 

 were heavy, and no struggled bravely to support his 

 family, earning small sums by doing Patent-Office 

 drawing and preparing specifications and patent 

 claims Tor other inventors. With very modest tastes 

 and habits of strict economy, he succeeded in perfect- 

 ing a motor for running street care by electricity sup- 

 plied by current through the medium of the rails as 

 conductors. His first application of this invention was 

 in 1875, and four years afterward ho built another and 

 larger motor, with which he expected to displace steam 

 by electricity on the great railroads. He desired to 

 use the dynamo for obtaining his current, but was too 

 poor either to buy one or the materials to make one. 

 His invention for the electrical propulsion of street 

 care was fought with great persistency bv opponents, 

 and after a long series of obstacles in the Patent Office 

 his application for a patent was rejected. Through 

 the aid of acquaintances who became interested in his 

 struggles, he carried his case to the Circuit Court of 

 the 1 'istrict of Columbia, and on the decisions of that 

 court he received two patents on Dec. 1ft, IS'.M. Mr. 

 (ircen did not live to reap the fruits of his long-con- 

 tested claims, and during the last few years of his life 

 he supported his family and carried on the struggle 

 by manufacturing a large variety of photographic 

 shutters which ho had invented. 



Hall, Johil W., shipmaster, born in Frederica, Kent 

 County, Del., Jan. 1, 1817; died there, Jan. 28. 1892. 

 He passed his early life as a mercantile clerk then en- 

 gaged in business "for himself, mid in 1847 became a 

 shipbuilder. In this business he was very successful, 

 and at the time of his death was owner of a large 

 fleet, which he himself had built and which were 

 employed in the Southern coasting trade. In 1866 

 he was elected a State Senator, and he served for four 

 years, the last two as presiding officer. In \^~>'< he 

 was a delegate to the Democratic National Conven- 

 tion ; in 1878 was elected Governor of Delaware ; and 

 in 1890 was re-elected to the State Senate for the 

 term ending in 1893. 



