Kingdon Gould
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Kingdon Gould I (August, 1887 – November 7, 1945) was a financier.
He was the son of George Jay Gould I (1864-1923) and Edith M. Kingdon (1864-1921). He married Annunziata Camilla Maria Lucci (1890-1961) and had the following children:
- Silvia Annunziata Gould (1919-1980)
- Edith Kingdon Gould (1920-2004) who married Guy Martin (1911-?)
- Kingdon Gould II who gave $22,000 to the Nixon administration and became the ambassador to Luxembourg.
Time wrote on July 27, 1942:
To beat the gas & rubber shortage Manhattan's Mrs. Kingdon Gould took the old family carriages out of moth balls, sent Daughter Edith to buy a pair of horses. Inexperienced Daughter Edith came back with a pair of brewery-truck-model Percherons.
[edit] Death
Kingdon was buried in his father's mausoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery.
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