Carlos Hilton Gould
1806-1891
Source: Wilcox, Ohio, p.190
The Life Of Carlos H. Gould
Carlos Hilton Gould was born October 18, 1806 in Henniker, New Hampshire. He was the son of Elias Gould (1779-1845) and Sally Hinton (1776-1867). He was the oldest son of seven children, just younger than his older sister, Lucinda Gould (1802-1878).
Carlos was married twice in his lifetime. The first wife was Malvina "Melinda" Whitney Dart (09.12.1806-08.13.1856), the young widow of Dr. Wilson Dart. They were married in 1832 in Neville, Ohio, where they lived six years before moving to Cincinnati. To this union was born two children, Charles Whitney Gould (1838-1876) and Mary Dart, who died in her childhood. (Note: Charles fought for the Confederate Army during the Civil War, and moved to California where he lived several years and died in Hollywood, 01.06.1878, Find-A-Grave) Carlos' second wife was Josephine Barnet Hall (1838-1812). They were married in 1859 in Wellsburg, West Virginia. She had one son from a previous marriage, Joseph Warren Gould (1851-1920). They had three more children, Sallie H. Gould (1860-1932); Mary Josephine Gould (1862-1927); and Carlos Lincoln Gould (1866-????). (Ancestry.com / Whitney Genealogy)
Moving to the west, Carlos Gould was a part of the settling of western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio. His main form of trade was in the field of cotton growth and product sales. In 1869 he was named a trustee of The Southern Railway Project along with W. S. Dickinson, R. M. Bishop and others. (The Pittsburgh Post, 07.05.1868, p.1) Also in common with these men was his ties to the Disciples of Christ movement in America.
Most noted in his life among the Disciples of Christ was his part in the planning of the brotherhood paper, The Christian Standard in 1866. (Discipline, 09.1965, p.53). He was also involved in the promotion of the American Christian Missionary Society, serving as an officer. He and others also promoted the sales of Alexander Campbell’s hymnbook in Cincinnati. (F.M. Green, Christian Missions, 1884, p.163,164) C. H. Gould served as an elder in the Walnut Hills Christian Church in Cincinnati from 1884 to his death.
Of him, W. T. Moore wrote, "C. H. Gould of Cincinnati was for many years closely allied with the central position of the Disciple propaganda. He was a man of sterling integrity, and both in counsel and money he gave freely and wisely to the Disciple cause. He was for a time one of the stockholders of the Standard Publishing Company, and was for many years an honoured elder of the Central Christian Church of Cincinnati, the building of which he superintended during its erection." (A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF THE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST, p.753-754)
Carlos Gould passed from this life, June 1, 1891. After a small family funeral in their home, he was buried in the Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio.
-Scott Harp, 08.24.2024
Excerpt From Biographical Sketches of Massachusetts
Carlos Hilton Gould, son of Elias and Sally (Hilton) Gould, was born in Henniker, New Hampshire, October 18, 1806, and died in Cincinnati, Ohio, in June, 1891. He attended the summer and winter schools of that period, and supplemented this training with one quarter at Pembroke Academy, and one quarter at a select school in town. During part of this period he also assisted his father in the leader business and in farming. He was fond of hunting, and it is said of him that with the old English fowling piece carried by his grandfather in the War of the Revolution he would roam the woods in search of game. The family still has in its possession the old powder horn used by his grandfather. On a piece of paper in its bottom is this inscription : "Newbury December ye 1766, Elias Gould, his horn." After leaving his father's employ at the age of seventeen years, Carlos H. Gould was employed for two or three years in a store and in the tavern, but being in delicate health, as he had been from boyhood, he later went to Boston, and then to Cincinnati, where he resided, with the exception of ten years in Clermont County, near Cincinnati, to the time of his death. Arriving at Cincinnati after a journey of two weeks, and among strangers, he found his letters of recommendation, signed by Judge Darling, Rev. Jacob Seales, Altima’s Rogers, and Page Eaton, valuable to him in obtaining employment. For upwards of thirty years he was the senior partner in the firm of Gould, Pearce & Company, manufacturers and dealers in cotton goods.
For many years he was one of the active men in the business and public affairs of Cincinnati. He contributed to the press articles upon city government, schools, manufacturing, commerce, art, and was for many years an active worker in the various religious and benevolent institutions of the city. He was president of the Cincinnati Union Bethel Board; was an active worker on the School Board, and in the Young Men’s Christian Association. And was president of the Committee of Safety, an organization founded for the improvement of the city government and for the protection of taxpayers. He was also an inventor, and on April 30, 1867, he received a patent for an improved steam boiler, of which “The Scientific American,” a very high authority, said: “It combines all the good qualities of the best boilers in use and is valuable in it combinations.” He was an elder in one of the largest Protestant churches of the city for nearly a quarter of a century.
Carlos H. Gould married (first), in 1832, Mrs. Malinda Dart. She died in 1856. He married (second), in 1859, Josephine B. Hall, of Wellsburg, West Virginia. To the first marriage one child was born Charles Whitney, born in 1838, died in 1876, in Los Angeles, California, where he was deputy county clerk and auditor of the county. The the second marriage three children were born: 1. Sallie Hilton, born in 1860. 2. Mary Josephine, born in 1862. 3. Carlos Lincoln, born on August 4, 1865.
-Encyclopedia of Massachusetts, Pages 68-69
Carlos H. Gould Invented A Steam Generator
Scientific American, May 18, 1867, p.320
Obituary
The_Cincinnati_Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio
June 4, 1891, page 5
Directions To Grave
C. H. Gould and family are buried in the Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio. Sec 30 - Lot 178 - Space 8 - See actual GPS location below.
GPS Location
39°10'04.4"N 84°31'38.4"W
or D.d. 39.167900, -84.527337
Carlos H. Gould
Born October 13, 1809
Died Jun 1, 1891
God Is Our Refuge
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Josephine B. Gould
Born February 7, 1833
Died June 10, 1912
Mary Gould White
Wife Of
E. Calvin White
Born March 6, 1862
Died
August 15, 1927
Malvina "Melinda" Whitney Dart Gould
Wife of
C.H. Gould
Died Aug. 13, 1856
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Photos Taken 06.26.2024
Webpage produced 08.24.2024
Courtesy Of Scott Harp
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Special Recognition: Many thanks to Geoff and Angie Mabe for providing the photos you see on this webpage. They were a part of a Restoration Movement work trip organized by Polishing The Pulpit the last week in June, 2024. Traveling through from our work at Cane Ridge, Kentucky, they stopped on the way to Bethany, WV at the Spring Grove Cemetery on the way through Cincinnati, Ohio. They kindly located the grave for me and took the photos you see here. Many thanks to the Mabes! True lovers of the history of the Restoration Movement.