Gould lived at 23 Bellevue Street and, later, at 22 Trull Street.
No. 4913 Amos D. Gould, born 1841
From American Series of Popular Biographies. Massachusetts Edition. This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston: Graves & Steinbarger, 1891.
AMOS D. GOULD, a prominent contractor and builder of Dorchester, Mass., has been actively identified with the business interests of that district for nearly three decades. He was born July 14, 1841, in Salisbury, N.B. His parents, James and Sarah Gould, were natives of Nova Scotia. His father died in 1892, and his mother in 1893. They were people of eminent piety, both being active members of the Free Baptist church. Their family consisted of six children, namely: Matthew (deceased); Thomas; Amos D., the subject of this biography; James; Mary Jane; and Matilda.
Amos D. Gould learned the carpenter’s trade in his youth in New Brunswick, where he followed it until 1869, his industry, mechanical ingenuity, and artistic ability bringing him excellent success. Coming then to Boston, he established himself as a contractor, and has since erected some of the most prominent buildings of the Dorchester district, including among others Hotel Gladstone, the residence of Willard White, and the handsome dwelling-houses at the corner of Moreland and Copeland Streets and at the corner of Rockland and Warren Streets. He had charge of the building of the fine residence on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, now occupied by O.M. Wentworth. Since 1885 he has enlarged his operations by purchasing land, improving it by the erection of attractive residences, and selling at an advantage to himself and the buyer. He possesses good executive and financial ability, and, in addition to having full charge of erecting the buildings of the Dorchester Associates, has full care of the property.
On June 28, 1871, Mr. Gould was united in marriage with Miss Ellen F. Gould, of Henniker, N.H., born August 3, 1845, daughter of Gilbert and Emeline (Cross) Gould. Of this union six children have been born, namely: Hattie E., deceased; Edgar D., an attorney; Edith M.; Josephine Louise; Mabel Mellen; and Ella Florence. Politically, Mr. Gould is a supporter of the Republican party. For a number of years he has been one of the Standing Committee of the Baptist church, of which all the family are members.
The theory of the Norman origin of the English family of Gould, or Gold, is supported by the evidence of ancient records, as: “Alexander and John Golde, of Normandy, A.D. 1195; … Elias Golde, England, 1272,” quoted , with other names, by Colonel Henry D. Teetor in the Historical and Genealogical Sketches prepared by him in 1888 for Carlos Hilton Gould, of East Walnut Hills, Cincinatti, uncle of Mrs. Ellen F. Gould, wife of Amos D. Gould. These sketches, besides giving a list of Gould emigrants to America, with notices of some of their descendants, embody much information concerning the Goulds of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, and other parts of England, the Gould coat of arms, and ancient manors with an engraving of the Upway House in Dorsetshire, the seat of George Gould, Esq., in 1864.
Gilbert D. Gould, of Henniker, born in 1816, above named as the father of Ellen F. (now Mrs. Amos D. Gould), was the younger son of Elias, Jr., and Sally (Hilton) Gould and brother of Carlos Hilton Gould. His father was born in 1771, and was a descendant in the fifth generation of Nathan Gould, of Amesbury, Mass., the line being: Nathan, Samuel, Nathan, Elias, Sr., Elias, Jr.
Nathan was son of John and Judith Gould, of King’s Langley, Hertfordshire, England, and nephew of Zaccheus Gould, early settler of Topsfield, Mass., who was the founder of an important branch of the family in America. Nathan Gould received land at Amesbury in 1657. His will, probated in 1693, mentions wife, Elizabeth, and five children. The third child, Samuel Gould, born in 1668, married Sarah Rowell, and was the father of Nathan, who married in 1730 as his second wife Anne Clough. Elias, Sr., born January 23, 1736-7, married Gertrude Davis, sister of General Aquila Davis, and settled at Hopkinton, N.H., whence he removed to Henniker, N.H. His sons were: Elias, Jr. (father of Gilbert D.), and Ichabod. Elias Gould is named in the Revolutionary rolls of New Hampshire as a member of Captain Benjamin Emery’s company in September, 1776.
The lineage of Nathan Gould, son of John Gould, of King’s Langley, England, is traced back through Richard Gould, born about 1553; Richard Gold, about 1530; Thomas Goolde, of Bovingdon, born about 1500; Richard Gowle and his wife Joan; to Thomas Goold, of Bovingdon, born probably not later than 1455. (See “The Family of Zaccheus Gould, of Topsfield,” with Appendix, by Benjamin Apthorp Gould, 1895.)
In the war of the Rebellion two maternal uncles of Mrs. Gould, General Nelson C. Cross and his younger brother, Colonel Edward E. Cross, of Lancaster, N.H. did valiant service for the Union. Nelson C., then living in Brooklyn, N.Y., raised a regiment, the New York Sixty-seventh, of which he was Colonel. He was in the army three years, and was brevetted Brigadier and Major General. Edward E. Cross, Colonel of the Fifth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, was killed on July 3, 1863, at the battle of Gettysburg, where he commanded a brigade.