Jay Gould
1836–1892 (age 56)
Railroad magnate, industrialist
Biography
Jay Gould rose as a railroad magnate and industrialist whose strategic vision expanded transportation networks and helped to reshape the flow of commerce across the nation.
Even amid the controversies of his day, his focus on innovation and capacity-building left an undeniable imprint, and family and admirers remember him at the Gould family mausoleum.