Herman Sylvester Gould (1874 - 1976)

Born 5 Aug 1874 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Died 7 Oct 1976 at age 102 in Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Herman Sylvester was born in Malden, Massachusetts, the son of Sylvester Gould and Elizabeth Sumner.^[1]

He married on December 26, 1896, to Addie McGunnigle, daughter of James and Mary (Philbrick) McGunnigle.^[2] They divorced before 1900, when she remarried on February 14, 1900 to Ernest McGrath. At the time of the census in 1900, Herman lived with his brother and his family in Windham, New Hampshire, and was employed as a "distiller watch lager".^[3]

He married secondly to Edna Bohannon, on February 11, 1903, in Haverhill, Mass. She was the daughter of Andrew and Louisa (Benway) Bohannon. They resided in Swanton, Vermont, by 1910, with their only daughter Louise.^[4] He worked as a laborer at the feed mill. In 1920, Herman was still residing in Swanton, but he was a boarder at the home of Earnest Quebec.^[5] Herman is listed as being married, but his wife was living with her father in Hudson, Massachusetts, at the time. The couple divorced sometime before 1923, when Edna remarried on July 31 of that year to Leon Gould.

By 1930, Herman lived in Everett with his third wife, Alice Leary.^[6] He was a salesman at a grocery store. They later moved to Boston (before 1940), where worked as a freight elevator operator (1939-1956).

Herman died in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1976.^[7] He was buried at the Salem Street Cemetery in Malden, with his third wife Alice.

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FX8S-QVH : 1 March 2016), Gould, 1874
2. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N4N3-NNL : 17 February 2016), Herman S Gould and Addie F Mcgunnigle, 26 Dec 1896
3. ↑ 1900 United States Census, Census Place: Windham, Rockingham, New Hampshire; Roll: 950; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 0218; FHL microfilm: 1240950
4. ↑ 1910 United States Census; Census Place: Swanton, Franklin, Vermont; Roll: T624_1615; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 0177; FHL microfilm: 1375628
5. ↑ 1920 United States Census, Census Place: Swanton, Franklin, Vermont; Roll: T625_1872; Page: 14A; Enumeration District: 90; Image: 1215
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQPS-62P : accessed 8 May 2017), Herman S Gould, Everett, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
7. ↑ "Massachusetts Death Index, 1970-2003," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZT8-GXQ : 4 December 2014), Herman S Gould, 07 Oct 1976

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH6Y-JHJ : 11 August 2016), Herman Gould in household of Sylvester W Gould, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
• 1940 United States Census, Census Place: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Roll: T627_1676; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 15-609
• "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8WH-XXK : 12 December 2014), Herman Sylvester Gould, 1917-1918