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. (c) 1998 Courtesy of Tina Vickery and Courtesy of the Androscoggin Historical Society ************************************************* * * * * NOTICE: Printing the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. * * * * The USGenWeb Project makes no claims or estimates of the validity of the information submitted and reminds you that each new piece of information must be researched and proved or disproved by weight of evidence. It is always best to consult the original material for verification.