Cumberland County ME Archives Biographies.....Gould, William Edward  
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Author: Sprague's Journal of Maine History 

William Edward Gould

Sprague's Journal of Maine History
Vol. VII
February March April 1920
No. 4
page 230-231

William Edward Gould
(By Lida L. Cobb.)
Reference has heretofore been made in the Journal (vol. 7, p.
56) to the late William Edward Gould of Boston, Mass.

Mrs. Lida L. Cobb of that city contributed the Journal
additional data regarding him as follows:

Mr. Gould was born in Portland, Maine, June 19, 1837, and died
in Boston, Mass., April 15, 1919.  The following is from the
Boston Transcript.

He was of the Mayflower ancestry and the eldest son of Edward
Gould and Althea Chase Gould of Portland, Me.  His life, until
recent years, was passed in that place, where when a young man
he was organist of the Third Parish Church.

When twenty-one years of old he was appointed cashier of the
first National Bank of Portland, which institution he built up
to be a leading bank in Maine.  His interest in music
continued and he was for some years presi-dent of the Haydn
Society of Portland.  He also led an amateur orchestra and
choral society, which met in his residence in Deering.  He
founded and was the first executive officer of the Portland
Society of Art.  In work in behalf of charity he aided foreign
and domestic missions and struggling churches.  He founded the
Woodsford Congregational Church, and often occupied pulpits in
Maine.  The Church Society at Ligonia was his epecial charge
for years.

Since his retirement from active business genealogy had been
Mr. Gould's special interest, and he was a frequent
contributor to the genealogical columns of the Transcript.  He
was editor of the Chase Chronicle the organ of the Chase-Chace
Family Association.  The April 1919, number was his last
literary contribution.  He wrote the history of the Gould,
Chase and Maynard families, and presented extra-illustrated
copies to the Maine Historical Society, the New England
Historic-Genealogical Society and the Gorham (Me.) Historical
Society.

He was the author of five volumes on genealogical subjects,
and was an authority on the Chase line.

He was also a close student of New England history, especially
of the colonial period of Maine.

On April 27, 1859, Mr. Gould was married to Emma Maynard Dow,
second daughter of Hon. Neal Dow of Portland, the "father of
prohibition."  Mrs. Gould died on Feb. 22 last.  They had five
children, of whom two survive -- Alice Maynard Gould, now the
wife of Everett W. Pattison, an attorney of St. Louis Mo., and
Neal Dow Gould of Portland.


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