Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-22
A RETIRING WOMAN.
The Disposition of Mrs. Jay GOuld-Wh
and What She Was and Is.

The Disposition of Mrs. Jay Gould-who
and What She Was and Is.
The wife of the great railroad mag
nate is gentle, affable, courteous, retir-
ing. She would not be called hand
some woman. yet her face is far more
attractive than many a beauty. She is
well educated, and possesses an air of
refinement. She convinces all who come
within the sphere of her influence that
through her retiring nature she has de-
prived society af an important orna-
ment Her inclinations have made her
a devotee to her family. There is her
ENJOYMENT, and she cares little for the
pleasures that do not in some way tend
to bring the entire family together.
She is the confidant and constant COM
panion of her daughter Nellie. and
passes several hours daily with the three
young boys, Edward, Frank and Har-
old. She participates in their pleas
ures, and is never SO happy as when
planning some surprise for them. Her
son George, young man of twenty
four, connected with his father in bust
ness, is source of great pride to her.
Mrs. Gould was Miss Miller, whose
father was successful grocer of New
York. She was brought up in we'll
appointed home and has been accus-
toned to all that wealth and refinement
bring from her childhood. Mr.. Gould
was partner of Mr.. Leupp in the
leather business at the time he married
Miss Miller and she brought him con-
siderable fortune. The grocer's daugh-
ter and magnate's wife cares nothing
for society and takes no pleasure in en-
tertaining, beyond a pleasant dinner
party of her few intimate friends. Yet
the fine residence and great wealth of
the Goulds would well fit them to en-
terrain in the most elaborate manner.
Anything that savors of ostentation is
particularly distasteful to Mrs. Gould.
1t is said that while naturally of a retir-
ing nature and adverse to display. she
became more SO at the time her hus-
band was connected with the late "Jim
Fisk" Fisk's blatant manner and vul-
gar prominence, his open carriages
drawn by four horses, his loud style of
dress and display of jewelry, were all
very obnoxious to Mrs. Gould, and the
fact that her husbands name was so
continually linked with that of Fisk
gave her an even stronger desire to ap-
pear modest and to make a marked
contrast. While Mrs. Gould posses es
some very valuable jewels, they are I'M
obtrusive, and she is more apt to wear
them when alone with her husband
and family than in public. In her
dress she is also mod st in color and
style, although her costumes are of very
rich material.
Mrs. Gould is very fond of their coun-
try residence at Irvington. as there she
can enjoy the society of her husband, to
whom she is greatly attached, without
fear of his being interrupted. Mr..
Gould built his fine greenhouses partic-
ularly for his wife. who is fond of flow
ers, and she spends portien of each
day among them. Anything that her
husband and children can enjoy with her
without intrusion from outsiders is her
special delight For this reason she is
very fond of their yacht ATLANTA aboard
of which they can sail away out of the
reach of stocks or bonds or Wall street.
Mrs. Gould enjoys fine pictures,
bronzes and rare bric-a-brac. and her
houses are filled with the finest. She is