Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-01-08
markable personality.

"The announcement of our engage ment was about the plea santest news I had ever heard all her acceptance of me has fsattered me highly and made me thoroughly happy.
 MT. Shepard is :te son of the late Rev pr. AP. l.. Shepard, an Episco- palian minister of Connecticut. MT. Shepard himself is now 45 years old, one year the senior of his wife who was born in New York on June, 20 1868. He is athletic, fighter from crown to heel and nas risen from the ranks to his present important posi- aion on the Gould i;res.
 Mir. Shepard entertd the off ces of the Northern Pacific at St. Paul, Minn., in the year 1889. Here his application and industry brought him to the attention of ;2c central mana ger of the road and he was finally appointed assistant to the head of that office. 4
 In 1901 he. left the Northern Pacific to enter the employ of the AtchersOn, Topeka, and Santa Fe, at Chicago. He remained with t'.e Santa Fe three years during which he was made general superintendent of the coast lines of that railroad. MT. Shepard then tried his hand at side line of he railroad business which kept him engaged for three years.
 Mir. Shepard returned to the rail- road work as superintendent of the iperating departmelt of the Missouri Pacific and the. Iron Mountain Rail- road. In January 1912, he was selected as assistant to Psident Bush selected as assistant ,o President Bush Mountain Lines.
 MT. Shepard is. we'll known in rail road 'rcles. chiefly in cities on the Pacific Coas. and through the middle West. He has had great experiences in all branches of railroad work and is said to be one oS the most capable men in the western railroad territory.
 Besides hs reputation in the rail- road field he has other claims to honoN He is an all around athletic, a model man in his youth, and at present an ardent devotee of golf, tennis and rowing. MT. Shepard is also close student of literature, a fine musician and Is greatly interest ed in settlement work among rail- road workers.
 This later quai! y especially en- .deared h m to Miss Gould who, though left wealthy by her father, esdaewed the frivolities of society and has become world timed through her philanthopies and her keen busi' ness sense. @
 Miss Gould was born in the Gould home at 579 Fifth Ave, New YofK City. June, 20, 1888. She was the third child and the first daughter of Jay Gould and at ,1a early age de- yeloped studious bent that took her apart from the social activities of her social peers, and prepared the way for her la.cr Sh lantropical m- terests.
 In this respect Miss Gould gained
 
 a world wide reputation. She was known as the ;pioneer of woman pnll- amthronis and before the death of the late Russell Sage and the distrubut- ion of that Fortune by Mrs Sage, was probably the largest individual contributor to charity in America Her grea5est popularity was reached during the Spanish American war when her efforts on behalf of Ameri- can Soldiers and Sailors caused he1 to be ranked with Florence =NightM- gale.
 Miss Gould's ior.nal entrance into society did not take place umrI sne was 45 years old. Her debut was delayed by the deatn of her tathel and mother, to whom Miss Gould was devoted. After her debut in lSsa however, Mss Gould took little Tn m terest in social affajrs, turning nei mind to the matter of distributing her fortune among the various char ties wI.ich she esponsed. '-
 These charities held a wide range including the establishment of libra ries, the care of. sick children, settie' ment work among :he poor and large donations to the Y. M. C.. "A.
 Her first charity was the estap' lishment of fresh air farm 1oi cripples at Woodcsest, Tarry'owA N. Y., this step was taken sh2rtiS after the death of Jay Gould n lss' and the inheritance of $lo,ooo,oo' from her fathers estate
 Her bIdlanthropies however, were