Word: jay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman Polo team open its season next Saturday at Avon Old Farms School, while the Varsity faces off against the Jay Vees in the Common-wealth Armory...
When the late Jay Gould, maker and breaker of railroads, lay dying, his devoted daughter Helen, then 24, was a constant attendant at his bedside. Last week at Roxbury, N. Y., Jay Gould's birthplace, she died, after a stroke, an extraordinary daughter of an extraordinary father, of an extraordinary family...
...first U. S. Gould was Nathan Gold of England. A later Gould was Colonel Abraham, killed in a battle during the Revolution at Ridgefield, Conn. Jay Gould built a railroad empire and fought his battles in Wall Street. In many ways Helen took after her father. He left her $10,000,000 and made her (with three of his sons) a trustee of his $84,000,000 estate. She ran up her $10,000,000 to an estimated $30,000,000. She invested in traction properties and made an annual tour of 7,000 miles to inspect them. A strange...
...till 1913, when she was 45, did she marry. On one of her country-wide business inspection tours she met Finley J. Shepard, who had long worked for the Gould railroads, was then assistant to the president of Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. By a provision of Jay Gould's will none of his children could marry without the consent of the trustees of his estate. She got the consent. She and her husband, who survives her, had no children, but they adopted a three-year-old waif, who was found on the steps of Manhattan's St. Patrick...
Last week at 70 the most useful of Jay Gould's unusual children died. Her admirers turned their eyes towards New York University's Hall of Fame. She endowed...