1882 cartoon depicting Wall Street as "Jay Gould's Private Bowling Alley" After being forced out of the Erie Railroad, Gould started to build up a system of railroads in the Midwest and West. He …

Nov 28, 2024 · Jay Gould (born May 27, 1836, Roxbury, New York, U.S.—died December 2, 1892, New York, New York) was an American railroad executive, financier, and speculator. He …

Jul 9, 2019 · Jay Gould (born Jason Gould; May 27, 1836–December 2, 1892) was a businessman who came to personify the robber baron in the late 19th century. Over the …

Jul 30, 2022 · Jay Gould’s Machiavellian moves led enraged investors to not only punch him at Delmonico’s, but throw him down a set of Broadway stairs, and threaten him with a pistol.

Gould paid off President Grant's brother-in-law to get inside information and bribed members of the New York legislature before putting their plan into action. The ensuing panic on what …

Jay Gould became one of the most powerful and ruthless tycoons owning numerous lines throughout the United States.

May 21, 2018 · American financier and railroad builder Jay Gould (1836-1892) began as an unprincipled stock manipulator and became one of the most acute businessmen in America's …

Jason “Jay” Gould, known as one of the ruthless “robber barons” of the nineteenth century American capitalism, was a famed railroad developer, financier and speculator. Starting his …

Jay Gould's reputation as one of the leading robber barons of the era was assured by his actions as a director of the Erie Railroad. In 1869, he worked with allies James Fisk and Daniel Drew …

Jan 1, 1995 · Jay Gould, railroad magnate, son of John Burr and Mary (More) Gould, was born at Roxbury, New York, on May 27, 1836. He worked for a blacksmith, clerked in a country store, …