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About George Gould, Chief Justice New York Court of Appeals
George Gould, Chief Justice New York Court of Appeals
Litchfield Law School Biography
Judge Gould was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, on the 2d of September, 1807. He was the fifth son of Judge James Gould. His genealogy shows an unbroken succession of educated gentlemen, in both the paternal and maternal branches; and in the former he stood in but the third remove from his English ancestors, whose descendants (of the junior branch) are still extant in England. His great-grandfather, Mr. William Gould, was born in North Tawton, Devonshire, England, in 1693. He emigrated to this country in 1720, and took up his residence in Branford, Connecticut. His grandfather, Dr. William Gould, the younger, was born in Branford, in 1827, and his father, Judge James Gould, was born in Branford, in 1770.
His father's sister, Elizabeth Gould, was the wife of the Hon. Roger Minott Sherman, and his mother (Sally McCurdy Tracy) was the eldest of four sisters, who were severally married to the Hon. James Gould, of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, the Hon. Samuel G. Howe, and the Hon. Theron Metcalf, judges of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, and the Hon. Silas Webster Robbins, judge of the Supreme Court of Kentucky, while his eldest brother became a judge in the State of Georgia, and he himself a judge of the Supreme Court of New York.
On the maternal side his great-grandfather was Eliphalet Tracy, of Norwich, Connecticut, and his grandfather was Gen. Uriah Tracy, for ten years a senator of the United States, from Connecticut, who died at Washington, and was the first person interred in the Congressional burial ground at the national capital.
Judge Gould's father had few equals at the bar, and when he was associated in important cases with his justly eminent brother-in-law, Roger Minott Sherman, and opposed by such men as David Daggett and Nathan Smith, the legal tournament is said, by those who were so fortunate as to witness it, to have exceeded in brilliancy anything ever witnesses in American courts. In view of these facts Judge George Gould may be said to have, as it were, inherited both education and law in a very unusual degree; and in respect of both he eminently upheld the family reputation. He was remarkable for the elegance of his person, and the combined dignity and grace of his manners, no less than for his almost unrivaled legal accomplishments, the purity of his English, and the perfection of his elocution.
Judge Gould entered Yale College in 1823, at the age of seventeen, and was graduated with distinction in 1827. He immediately entered upon a study of the law, under the teaching of his father, at whose celebrated law school he was a student for two years. At the end of that period (i.e., in 1829) he removed to Troy, and was admitted to the bar in the following year (1830). In November, 1840, he married a daughter of the Hon. George Vail of Troy, and with her enjoyed a measure of domestic happiness rarely accorded to any man.
New York Supreme Court - Judge George Gould
George Gould, son of Judge James Gould and his wife Sally Tracy Gould, was born in Litchfield, Connecticut on September 2, 1807. He began his education in 1819 at the Litchfield Female Academy where he studied until 1823. At that time he entered into studies at Yale College and graduated with honors in 1827. Immediately following his completion of studies at Yale he began the study of law at the Litchfield Law School where his father lectured. After completing his studies in Litchfield he relocated to Troy, New York where he passed the bar in 1830 and entered into his profession as a lawyer.
On November 10, 1840 he married Sarah McCoun Vaill of Troy, New York. During his life he succeeded as a lawyer and judge. In 1852 he served as the Mayor of Troy, New York, and from 1855 until 1863 he served as a justice of the superior court of New York. He was also, for several years, a director of the old Farmer's Bank of Troy. He also acted as the vice-president and acting president of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
He was, for a long time, Treasurer of the Troy and Boston Railroad Company, and for several years a delegate to the Diocesan Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church. At the time of his death in 1868 George Gould was the director of the Merchants and Mechanics National Bank and the Troy Savings' Bank.
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George Gould, Chief Justice New York Court of Appeals's Timeline
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September 2, 1807
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Litchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States
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| 1846 |
August 15, 1846
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Troy, Rensselaer County, New York, United States
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| 1851 |
October 24, 1851
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Troy, Rensselaer County, New York, United States
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| 1855 |
May 28, 1855
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Troy, Rensselaer County, New York, United States
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| 1857 |
October 10, 1857
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Troy, Rensselaer County, New York, United States
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March 28, 1858
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Troy, Rensselaer County, New York, United States
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| 1868 |
December 6, 1868
Age 61
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Troy, Rensselaer County, New York, United States
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