Bio of GOULD, Dr. James Bennett (b.1860 d.1916), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

JAMES BENNETT GOULD, M. D. - Vol II, pg 545-546
For thirty years Dr. James Bennett Gould was engaged in the practice of medicine
in Minneapolis, opening an office here in 1886 and continuing in active
professional work to the time of his death, which occurred in 1916. He rendered
service of great value to his fellowmen because of his high professional
attainments and his broad humanitarian spirit. Minnesota numbered him among her
native sons, his birth having occurred at Eden Prairie, in Hennepin county,
January 23, 1860, his parents being Aaron and Matilda. (Channel) Gould, who were
natives of the state of New York. On leaving the east they removed to Wisconsin,
where they cast in their lot with the pioneer settlers and later they came to
Minnesota, the father taking up a claim of one hundred and sixty acres of land
at Eden Prairie, Hennepin county, during President Polk's administration.
The usual experiences of the farm boy fell to the lot of James Bennett Gould
during the period of his youth and he thoroughly acquainted himself with the
best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops through actual
experience in the fields. He obtained his preliminary education in the district
school of Eden Prairie and in 1873 he entered the public schools of Minneapolis,
where he passed through consecutive grades until eventually he entered the State
University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1882, winning the
Bachelor of Arts degree. He afterward taught school for a year and in fact, was
a teacher when a youth of but seventeen. Later he worked for the McCormick
Harvester Company as an expert mechanic, traveling over several states in that
connection. He determined, however, to devote his life to the practice of
medicine and to surgery and with that end in view spent a year as a student in
the office of Dr. C. N. Hewitt, who was then secretary of the state board of
health of Minnesota. In 1883 he matriculated in the Jefferson Medical College at
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and after three years of earnest and unremitting
study was graduated with his professional degree in 1886. During both his
collegiate and medical courses he had also acted as a teacher and displayed
considerable ability in imparting clearly and readily to others the knowledge
that he had acquired.
With his return to Minneapolis in 1886 Dr. Gould entered upon the active
practice of medicine and so continued to the time of his demise, his service
being of signal value and benefit to his fellowmen, for he was most careful and
accurate in the diag­nosis of his cases and seldom, if ever, at fault in
foretelling the outcome of disease. He had keen interest in the welfare of his
patients and he continued throughout life a close student of the fundamental
principles of the science of medicine while broad reading and investigation kept
him in touch with the trend of modern professional thought and progress. In
addition to his private practice he was medical examiner for various life
insurance companies and also for the Royal Arcanum, in which organi­zation he
occupied offices for a period of twenty-seven years. In 1901 he became medical
examiner for the Independent Order of Foresters and in 1903 for the Modern
Woodmen of America. His membership relations extended to various professional
societies, including the Hennepin County, the Minnesota State and the American
Medical Associations. He likewise belonged to the Masonic fraternity, his
member­ship being with Ark Lodge, No. 176, A. F. & A. M., and Ark Chapter, No.
53, R. A. M., his life being an expression of the benevolent spirit and purposes
of that order. His political allegiance was always given to the republican party
and he kept well in­formed on the questions and issues of the day but never
sought nor desired office as a reward for party fealty.
On the 26th of December, 1889, Dr. Gould was united in marriage to Miss Ella M.
Crombie of Michigan, a daughter of John G. and Rebecca (Runyan) Crombie, the
former a native of Vefmont and the latter of Michigan. They resided in Michigan
until 1887, when the mother and her family removed to Minneapolis, the father
having in the meantime passed away. Dr. and Mrs. Gould became well known
socially in this city, where their circle of friends was almost coextensive with
the circle of their acquaintance. A life of substantial worth and usefulness was
ended when Dr. Gould passed away on October 17, 1916.