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-Gould was known to donate privately to universities and churches and other public programs.
-A small part of his will was saved for charity donations.

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-Gould acquired his large empire by the forging of railway stocks then bribing the state legislatures to take a blind side.
- Gould play an major role of the "Black Friday" of Sept. 24, 1869.
-Gould would weaken competing companies in order to buy them for himself.
- He created a bundle of business that in total were worth 77 million dollars.

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-Born on May 27, 1836
-Died on December 2, 1862
-He started out slowly buying railroads stocks.
-He soon became the manager of the Rensselaer and Saratoga Railways, than the owner of the Rutland and Washington Railway.
-He soon became apart of the "Boss" Tweed Tamany Ring, forging stocks and bribing state legislatures.
-Gould also became the director of the Erie Canal in which he sold those stocks at high prices only to make the price drop to buy them back.

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-The railways of the United States were primarily fought in-between Vanderbilt and Gould.
-Railroads spanned across the country and provided cheap transport for people and goods.
-Land was often sold cheap by the government which led to the large expansion.