Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Gould, Darius 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Darius Gould, furniture dealer in the Farwell Block, on Locust Street, 
Sterling, was born March 9, 1824, in Saratoga Co., N. Y., and was one year old 
when his parents, Tobias and Dinah (Degroff) Gould (also natives of the Empire 
State), moved to Bradford Co., Pa., where his father, a farmer, died, in 1831; 
his mother died in Georgia, in 1875. On the death of his father, Mr. Gould 
went with his grandparents to Cayuga Co., N. Y., and remained with them until 
17 years of age, attending school winters. He then went to Tioga County, same 
State, and served a three years' apprenticeship at shoe-making. His health 
failing, he returned to Cayuga County and worked at carpentry three years, 
when he came to Genesee, this county, purchased a farm of 40 acres, cultivated 
it and also worked at his trade. This farm he sold in 1860, and purchased 
another in the same town, comprising 120 acres. Two years afterward he sold 
this farm also, went to Hickory Grove, bought 80 acres and followed farming 
there until 1870, when he sold out and moved to Sterling, where for 14 years 
he followed building by contracts, being very successful. Sometimes he had as 
many as ten men in his employ. Jan. 1, 1884, he purchased the interest of 
Joshua McKenny in the furniture and undertaking business. He has one partner, 
and now the firm of Stakemiller & Gould are enjoying a prosperous trade. Mr. 
Gould owns a house and lot on Sixth Street, between Locust and B, where he 
resides. Politically, Mr. Gould is a Republican; religiously, a consistent 
Christian gentlemen, being a member of the Baptist Church at Sterling, to 
which body Mrs. G. also belongs. He is also a Freemason. Mr. Gould was married 
to Miss Lucy Ann Southard, of Cayuga Co., N. Y., March 17, 1848. She died in 
1876, leaving four children,—Francis A., William L., Sarah A. and Ida A. Mr. 
Gould was married a second time, Sept. 5, 1877, to Mrs. E. S. Phillips, of 
Sterling, and by this marriage there is one daughter, Jessie by name.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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