Edwin Gould I - Accomplishments

Accomplishments

• Chosen a captain in the Seventy-first regiment of the State National Guard.
• Served as secretary of the St. Louis, Arkansas, and Texas Railway until it was reorganized as the St. Louis Southwestern Railway.
• Served as Vice-President and President of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway.
• Organized the Continental Match Company in 1894 (consolidated with the Diamond Match Company in 1899).
• President of the Bowling Green Trust Company.
• Vice-president of the American Writing Paper Company.
• President of the Five Boroughs Realty Company.
• Director of many railroad and other corporations.
• In 1917-1918, he served with Squadron A, New York National Guard.
• In 1918, he was major of ordnance in the First Brigade of the New York guard.