Edith Kingdon

She married George Jay Gould I (1864–1923), a financier and railroad executive who led both the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and the Western Pacific Railroad. Gould was the son of Jay Gould, who is considered one of the ruthless robber barons of the Gilded Age.^[8] Together, George and Edith had the following children:^[9]

• Kingdon Gould, Sr. (1887–1945), who married Annunziata Camilla Maria Lucci (1890–1961).^[10]
• Jay Gould II (1888–1935), a tennis player who married Anne Douglass Graham, a descendant of Hawaiian royalty.^[11][12]
• Marjorie Gwynne Gould (1891–1955), who married Anthony Joseph Drexel III (1887–1946), the son of Anthony Joseph Drexel, Jr. and grandson of Anthony Joseph Drexel.^[13]
• Helen Vivien Gould (1893–1931) who married John Beresford, 5th Baron Decies (1866–1945).^[14]
• George Jay Gould II (1896-1963) who married, and later divorced,^[15] Laura Carter.^[16]
• Edith Catherine Gould (1901–1937) who married Carroll Livingston Wainwright I (1899–1967).^[17] They divorced and she married Sir Hector Murray MacNeal.^[18]
• Gloria Gould (1906–1943) who married Henry A. Bishop II,^[19] and after a divorce married Walter McFarlane Barker.^[20][21]

She died on November 13, 1921, at the golf course of their home at Georgian Court in Lakewood Township, New Jersey.^[1][22] After a private funeral at the Gould home, she was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, in the Jay Gould Mausoleum.^[23]

Through her daughter Edith, she was the grandmother of Stuyvesant Wainwright (1921–2010), a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives.^[24]

Through her daughter Helen, she was the grandmother of Arthur Beresford, 6th Baron Decies (1915–1992).

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