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Jay Gould __**Birth Place:**__ Roxbury, New York Jay Gould was born on a dairy farm in Roxbury, New York he lived there for most of his life. He studied at Hobart Academy but left at the young age of 16. He then worked for the Erie railroad and along with James Fisk bought a lot of gold to keep farmers sending wheat through the railroad to sell it. By doing so he would get more money. After being kicked out of the Erie railroad he took control of four western railroads including the Union Pacific and the Missouri railroads. He then owned 1/9th of the United States’ railway charging what he desired. Jay Gould also took control of a telegraph company to use aboard his trains. During the Great Railroad Strike of 1886 he hired strikebreakers to stop the strike. He then quoted “I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other.” He was said to have worked with a man named James Fisk. He was named the most skilled business man John D. Rockefeller ever encountered. Jay led to his partner’s suicide, even though his partner, Charles Leupp, was bipolar. Henry Ford and Henry Adams assumed he was Jewish. Jay Gould is a Robber Baron but some historians supposedly have evaluated his career and found some more positive and for the better of America. “Jay Gould” www.wikipedia.com February 17, 2008
 * __Birth Date:__** May 27, 1836
 * __Death Date:__** December 2, 1892 (of tuberculosis)

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