Talk:Jay Gould

==Jason G. Gould== blaj blah blah has he shat on a turtlee? Does anyone know if Jay Gould ever went by this name peter cheese? He's listed as such on a project I should be working on and I assume this is him. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.7.14.130 (talk) 13:06, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Gouldsboro, PA

There is an article about Gouldsboro, PA claiming the city was named for Mr. Jay Gould the financier. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.58.86.228 (talk) 16:13, 24 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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No offence to all the hard working people, but this wikipedia page sucks! (and for that matter, so does the rest of the internet, or at least google) I found this link on the robber baron wiki page [1] so we can make this page better. I was helping my 9th grade cousin and this page was quite disappointing Evil Deep Blue 20:39, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I removed a garbled sentence and fixed a couple other things. Needs a bit more work. Paul 19:30, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Black Friday

This sentence was completely incorrect:

These speculations in gold culminated in the panic of Black Friday, on September 24, 1869, when the price of gold fell from 162 to 135.

I changed it to ...

These speculations in gold culminated in the panic of Black Friday, on September 24, 1869, when the premium over face value on a gold Double Eagle fell from 62% to 35%.

but experts may know better. --mervyn 12:31, 10 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Biology author

THere is a guy(taxonomist) with a similar name who wrote about biological classification

Are you thinking about Stephen Jay Gould? --jpgordon ∇∆∇∆ 17:26, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, thats him. Thanks for the pointer. That brings another observation, didn't Gould (Financer) have a third name? That would help avoid the search for the biologist leading to this thug .. sorry financer.

Union Pacific Involvement

It says in this article that "After being forced out of the Erie Railroad, Gould gained control of the Union Pacific Railroad, withdrawing from it in 1883 after realizing a large profit. " However, in the Union Pacific Railroad article under "Company Officers," he is listed as being president in 1892.

What's up with that? There should be some consistency, so the facts/sources should be checked. --Jimbo 23 January 2006

George Jay Gould

This child appears in the timeline but not in the list of children. Can someone please figure out which one is right? The Uninvited Co., Inc. 23:02, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"I can hire half the working class to kill the other half"

This is not going into the article without a citation of someone attributing it to Gould. Gazpacho 03:04, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Have you even googled the quote? try [2] (look for it, it's there). Now will somebody put that quote back on? (Me being to busy and a newb to boot) Evil Deep Blue 21:04, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

We should have a better source than that. EDB has done is link us to a list of quotes. A lot of apocryphal stuff gets to be including in such lists, and then circulates. Consider the famous line about how it's turtles all the way down for an example. You can google that one and get lots of lists making mutually inconsistent attributions. We should require something more like a primary source. Did somebody hear him say this and record it? Was it something he wrote in a letter that the recipient saved? --Christofurio 13:53, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have seen this in several biographies of Gould, including the "definitive" Maury Klein biography. Wikiquote cites The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes, Clifton Fadiman, Little Brown, October 1985, ISBN 0-316-27301-5. --ubiquity 16:07, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Citations from books of anecdotes are precisely the problem. George Washington said, "I can not tell a lie, I cut down that cherry tree with my little axe" according to anecdote. If you've got the Klein biography handy, check his footnotes for it and let me know what his primary source is. I don't have any prejudices one way or the other, and I'm not the editor who removed the quote from this article in the first place, but I'm sure the original concern that got this quote removed had to do with its anecdotal sound. --Christofurio 20:48, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I, for one, am satisfied that the quote is now attributed to unionists. When I made my comment above there was no attribution.blah blh blah It wouldn't be the only time Gould put business over human lives; Klein quotes a letter in which he notes the benefits of annihilating the Indians. However, I do not remember seeing the strikebreaking quote in Klein. Gazpacho 03:52, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Anti-semitism

Here is a phrase from the most recent revision of the page: "Anti-semitism, in connection with Gould's name, motivated some of this hostility, even though he was born a Presbyterian and married an Episcopalian." This sentence could have two meanings: Gould was rumored to be Jewish and that motivated some of the hostility towards him OR Gould was rumored to be anti-semitic yet was a Presbyterian and married an Episcopalian. I first went with the 2nd interpretation and only recognized the first after I asked a friend for their take; because it would be very odd if you could counter any claims of you being an anti-Semite with a claim that you're a Presbyterian. Someone may want to clear this up. I would, but I know absolutely nothing about this person so I feel I would be unjustified in making any revisions.--152.2.62.27 12:49, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]