Jay Gould person
also: Gould, Goulds
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Claims (2)
Jay Gould owned
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company documented
document
“By 1903 it was mainly owned and controlled by John D. Rockefeller and Jay Gould's financial heirs.…”
source: url — Colorado Fuel and Iron · p.1
Jay Gould traded_network_to
Erie Railroad documented
“And what they did is they defeated him by issuing what's called watered stock, which is basically printing fake certificates. And Gould had bribed the New York legislature to allow the issuance of the stock. And they actually beat Vanderbil…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 19:54
Mentions (6)
▶ 7:41
You know, we've got a couple of good lists of skull and bones, and I've got them sorted chronologically. And we're starting from oldest to newest. And I could probably, you know, we could do a few minutes on just about every single name on …
▶ 56:38
He had a huge rivalry with Jay Gould over the shipping, steamships in the Erie. It's called the Erie Wars, but after Lake Erie, where they tried to bankrupt each other. Vanderbilt ended up winning that battle, and the Goulds sort of faded f…
▶ 7:57
you know we've got a couple of good lists of skull and bones and i've got them sorted chronologically and we're starting from oldest to newest and i could probably you know we could do a few minutes on just about every single name on there …
▶ 56:19
that countered it, was finally accepted, was the Vanderbilt. It was in the Civil War. Basically, they just armored up the steamship and put a ram on it, and that basically leveled the playing field in the Civil War, in the naval battle. So …
▶ 19:20
moved south and developed a monopoly on the California steamship business because that's what this guy does. We get to the Civil War, and he donates his biggest steamship, known as the Vanderbilt, to the Union Navy. That's the one they outf…
▶ 19:54
And what they did is they defeated him by issuing what's called watered stock, which is basically printing fake certificates. And Gould had bribed the New York legislature to allow the issuance of the stock. And they actually beat Vanderbil…