frankjaygould

....HISTORY OF THE OLD AMERICANA PHOTOS This image comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection which represents one of America's earliest news picture agencies. The collection richly documents sports events, theater, celebrities, crime, strikes, disasters, political activities including the woman suffrage campaign, conventions and public celebrations. The photographs Bain produced and gathered for distribution through his news service were worldwide in their coverage, but there was a special emphasis on life in New York City. The bulk of the collection dates from the 1900s to the mid-1920s, but scattered images can be found as early as the 1860s and as late as the 1930s. (Library of Congress).... If we can have a short descrption of each photo introduce the name of event and little background story about the people inside each photo that really is a good education to viewers today who did not know anything about 1900 in the world but can see the history being brought to life. The historical photos are valuable assets.

Helen Gould's wedding was Jan 22, 1913 Helen Gould's Home, Scene of Her Wedding To-day to F.J. Shepard (NYT January 22, 1913) query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D01EFD6123BE633A...

Helen Gould's home was Lyndhurst, at Tarrytown, NY, seen in this Bain Collection photo. The photo above appears to have been taken in the porte-cochère seen at right in the Lyndhurst photo. Frank Jay Gould (1877-1956) was Helen Gould's youngest brother. The Mrs. Gould in this photo is Frank's second wife, the former Edith Kelly, an actress he married in 1910. They were divorced in 1919.

Helen Gould's Home, that is a small size castle. It must be their dream house. Beautiful. People always has fantacy dreams about castle; especially castles in Europe with many mysterious or fancy stories happened in the castle.

Son of George Jay Gould I; grandson of the 19th-century Wall Street robber baron (and Titan of the Great Northern Railroad), Jay Gould. See Harry Angstrom's note, below, and the Wikipedia entry it references.

I didn't think he looked like a Georgie.

Oops! Sorry for the mix up. This is one of five captions and images that got out of alignment back when the negatives were first scanned. Now fixed!

Might be Frank's nephew, Jay2: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Gould_II

Harry Angstrom: It does look like this is Jay Gould II. We will update the record with this more full name. Thanks for the heads up!

Wow!!! Those are some impressive hats!

Found this article after I Googled Frank Gould: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9506E3D91539E13AB... That's the first Mrs. Gould and the girls names are Helen & Dorothy.

Mrs. Frank Gould was the former Helen Margaret Kelly, daughter of Edward Kelly and granddaughter of banker Eugene Kelly. She was 18 years old when she married Frank Gould, youngest son of financier Jay Gould, on December 2nd, 1901. The wedding was reported in the New York Times the following day. They divorced in 1908, and the terms of the settlement were described in this New York Times article from May 11, 1909. Though Frank Gould was granted custody of his daughters for the greater part of each year, young Helen and Dorothy ended up spending most of that time with their aunt, Helen Gould, who became Mrs. Finley J. Shepard in 1913 (Times article.) The former Mrs. Frank Gould married twice more (that I can find), in 1910, to Ralph Thomas (d.1914), and in 1917 to Prince Houreddin (or Noureddin) Vlora of Albania, from whom she was divorced in 1922 (brief Times Article.) Daughters Helen and Dorothy both went on to marry Swiss Barons, and then divorce them according to a brief item in Time Magazine on February 18th, 1935. I've been unable to find what became of Helen after her divorce, but Dorothy was married again, to Basil Frederick Boothby, which got her cited in Burke's Peerage. She died in 1990.

There is another photo of the kids here: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3084403295/

I added her to Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Margaret_Kelly