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=__Jason “Jay” Gould__=

Basic Info __** Jay Gould was born on May 27 1836 on his father’s dairy farm in Roxbury, New York. He died on December 2, 1892 from Tuberculosis.
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Occupation __** He married Helen Day Miller and through her father he was appointed manager of Rensselaer & Saratoga railway. In 1868 Jay was elected president of the Erie Railway. He worked with Jim Fisk to control the Erie Railway. Gould was the prototype for the “Robber Baron.” He was pictured as an unscrupulous “Pirate” who manipulated and watered stock, deliberately running business down and building them up again to his own advantage. Gould was involved in the tanning, lumber and banking businesses but he was mainly involved in the railroad business.
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‘Robber Baron’ or ‘Captain of Industry?’ __** Gould is one of the few who is better known as a “Robber Baron” over a “Captain of Industry.”  Along with associates James Fisk and Daniel Drew, he fought and beat Cornelius Vanderbilt for control of the Erie Railroad. Having used bribery to gain control, he and his partners did not hesitate to loot the railroad's treasury by stock manipulation. His attempt to corner the gold market caused the Black Friday panic. Ejected from his Erie Railroad post in 1872, he gained control of several Western railroads and took a $10 million profit by threatening Union Pacific. The epitome of the ‘robber baron’, he died ‘unlamented’ but worth over $100 million. Gould even considered himself as “One of the most hated men of the late 19th Century.”

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