He was the son of Gordias H. Gould, who built the first steamboat in the Black River, and Mary Plumb.
When he was 16, he drove a stage coach, later working with the tannery Snyder Brothers in Port Leyden for three years.
[2] In 1869, Gould bought land on the Moose River and started manufacturing lumber.
[3] In 1881, Gould was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Democrat, representing Lewis County.
[6] He died on June 9, 1919, in Clifton Springs Sanitarium and was buried in the family plot at Port Leyden Cemetery.