Marriage
He married Helen Day Miller (1838–1889) in 1863. They had six children:
- George Jay Gould I (1864–1923), married Edith M. Kingdon (1864–1921)
- Edwin Gould I (1866–1933), married Sarah Cantine Shrady
- Helen Gould (1868–1938), married Finlay Johnson Shepard (1867–1942)
- Howard Gould (1871–1959), married Viola Katherine Clemmons on October 12, 1898; and later married actress Grete Mosheim in 1937
- Anna Gould (1875–1961), married Paul Ernest Boniface, Comte de Castellane (1867–1932) and divorced; second, married Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, 5th duc de Talleyrand, 5th duc de Dino, 4th Herzog von Sagan, and Prince de Sagan (1858–1937)
- Frank Jay Gould (1877–1956), married Helen Margaret Kelly; then Edith Kelly; and then Florence La Caze (1895–1983)
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