Kingdon Gould Sr.


Kingdon Gould Sr. was an American financier and champion polo player.
He was born on August 15, 1887 in Manhattan, New York City to George Jay Gould I and Edith M. Kingdon. He attended Columbia University and graduated from the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science in 1909 with a E.M. degree. He was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity on campus. He served as an officer in World War I.
He married Annunziata Camilla Maria Lucci on July 2, 1917 in Manhattan, New York City. Together they had the following children:
Time wrote on July 27, 1942 :

To beat the gas & rubber shortage Manhattan’s Mrs. Kingdon Gould took the old family carriages out of moth balls, sent Daughter Edith to buy a pair of horses. Inexperienced Daughter Edith came back with a pair of brewery-truck-model Percherons.

Kingdon died on November 7, 1945. He was buried in his father's mausoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery.