Robert S. Gould

Gould entered the University of Alabama at fourteen and graduated at age eighteen.

He was shortly after appointed tutor of mathematics in the university and held the position for three years, receiving an A.M. degree in 1847.

Gould moved to Texas in 1850, and having been admitted to practice in the courts of this State by Judge R. E. B. Baylor, settled at Centerville, Leon County.

In 1861 he was elected district judge, resigning to enter the army during the American Civil War.

In 1866 he was elected district judge but was shortly afterward removed by general military order as an impediment to reconstruction.