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Wilbur Samuel Gould (b. December 25, 1860, d. May 05, 1944)

Wilbur Samuel Gould (son of Charles Wilbur Gould and Mariette Hunting) was born December 25, 1860 in Hanover Township, Cook County, Illinois, and died May 05, 1944 in Des Moines, Iowa ,. He married Edna Earle Davison on December 24, 1892 in Winthrop, Iowa.

Notes for Wilbur Samuel Gould:
Wilbur was the eldest child of Charles Wilbur Gould. At one time he owned his own racehorse. He was brought up a child of privilege. He graduated from Elgin academy in Elgin Illinois and wanted to go to Harvard, but his father wanted him to go to Berea College in Kentucky which his uncle Bruce Hunting had been one of the founders of and where Bruce Hunting taught Latin. All the Gould children attended Berea except Wilbur. He chose not to go to college but became a creamery worker like many of his other relatives. He worked well into his seventies--his last job being at the Des Moines Co-op Dairy. When his grandson-in-law, Ray McAdam worked there one summer, there were still old timers there that remembered Will Gould.

He was a great reader and brought his children up to love reading. He always referred to Shakespeare as,"Billy Shakespeare" like they were old friends---which they were. He also enjoyed John Greenleaf Whittier, Longfellow, and Boothe Tarkington. He read the complete set of Dickens ans enjoyed"Bobbie Burns' " poems.

More About Wilbur Samuel Gould and Edna Earle Davison:
Marriage: December 24, 1892, Winthrop, Iowa.

Children of Wilbur Samuel Gould and Edna Earle Davison are:

+Ruth Gould, b. October 11, 1900, Dayton, Iowa, d. December 12, 1992, Dayton, Iowa.
Wilbur Earl Gould, b. January 09, 1894, d. August 05, 1940, Norfolk, Virginia.
+Ralph Emerson Gould, b. March 08, 1896, d. May 21, 1987, Des Moines, Iowa ,.
+Charles Bruce Gould, b. July 28, 1898, Luana, Iowa, d. August 27, 1989, Hopewell, New Jersey.
Frank Ian Gould, b. June 04, 1903, d. December 23, 1983.
+Kenneth Davison Gould, b. November 07, 1905, Des Moines, Iowa ,, d. November 06, 1986, Robinson, Illinois.
Esther Gould, b. July 29, 1909, Des Moines, Iowa ,, d. June 09, 1910, Des Moines, Iowa ,.
Stillborn Son Gould, b. September 1913, Des Moines, Iowa ,, d. September 1913, Des Moines, Iowa ,.