. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. HE little village of Roxbury, in Delawarecounty, N. Y., is fifty-five miles west fromRondout. on the Hudson river. Into thisvicin
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. HE little village of Roxbury, in Delawarecounty, N. Y., is fifty-five miles west fromRondout. on the Hudson river. Into thisvicinity came, from Connecticut, at an earlyday, Abraham Gould, one of the old Puritanstock. To him was born John B. Gould,the first white male inhabitant whose birthoccurred in the town. John B. grew to manhood in Roxbury:lived and died there, being in the meantimetwice married. By his first wife he hadfive children —four daughtersand a son. By the ]:i«t be had one son by the first wife was born in May, 1836, and is the subject of our sketch—Jay Gould. Whatever faults Jays father, John B. Gould, may have had, be possessed some sterling virtues, among which was a firm resolve to do as he had promised. Many farmers, in that portion of Delaware county, in an early day, had leased their land, having contracted to pay a Pti])u- lated rent for a long series of years. This rent became a burden, and many of the fanners resolved upon repudiat-ing the contrac
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