Oneida County NyArchives Biographies.....Gouge, Frederick H. May 5, 1845 - 0000
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Author: Oneida County, New York Biographies 
From Our County and Its People, Part III: Family Sketches by Daniel E. Wager. (The Boston History Company, 1896.), p. 136 

 
GOUGE, FREDERICK H., the architect, of 26-27 Winston Building, Utica, N.Y., was
graduated from Hamilton College in 1870. His early education was acquired at a
district school and the academy at Rome, N.Y. In 1871-72 he practiced civil
engineering in Fulton and Herkimer counties and on the Bound Brook Railway line in
New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In 1873 he formed a partnership with William H. Miller,
at Ithaca, N.Y., for the practice of the profession of architecture. In 1876 he
removed to Utica, where he opened an office and resumed work as an architect. Mr.
Gouge was born in Trenton, N.Y., May 5, 1845, son of Jacob Gouge, a farmer. The farm
on which his grandfather, also named Jacob Gouge, settled at Trenton in 1796 is
still retained by the family. His mother, Laura (Powers) Gouge, was a descendant of
the Burlingame and Grinnell families of Connecticut. October 25, 1881, Mr. Gouge
married Abbie P. Moore, of Trenton Falls, N.Y., by whom he had three children: Julia
Sherman, Laura, and George Frederick. Mr. Gouge is a member of the American
Institute of Architects and has been president of Western New York Chapter of the
American Institute of Architects for two terms. Among the notable buildings designed
by him are the First National Bank, Utica City National Bank, Sayre Memorial church,
Park Baptist church, the St. Francis De Sales church in the city of Utica, the
Cayuga County Savings Bank at Auburn, and the Colgate Gymnasium at Colgate
University. Mr. Gouge is a member of the Fort Schuyler and Arcanum Clubs. 


Additional Comments:
He was my maternal 2 great grand uncle.

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