CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  G. H. Gould - Anderson County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, page 228 

G. H. GOULD.

George Henry Gould, of Palestine, at the commencement of the war 
between the States was a practicing lawyer of Henderson, Rusk county.  
He was born near Rochester, N. Y., October 20, 1835.  His father, 
Timothy Gould, was a sol­dier in the war of the revolution.  
Graduating at the Univer­sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, he removed to 
Texas in 1857 and entered the law office of Gen. M. D. Ector and M. D. 
Gra­ham in the study of law. Being admitted to the bar, he em­barked in 
the practice until the outbreak of the war.  Being of Northern birth, 
but his sympathy was with the cause of the South he enlisted as a 
Confedetate soldier.  Be­ginning as a private in Company F of the 
17th Texas Cavalry, he was made Sergeant-Major at the reorganization 
in 1862, and served with distinguished ability in that office as a 
loyal soldier of the South in the Trans-Mississippi department. He 
shared the campaigns of his regiment under Colonels George F. Moore 
and James Taylor, participating in many engage­ments with the enemy.  
After the war he resumed the prac­tice of law, continuing it at 
Henderson for more than thirty years successfully, being honored 
with the positions of County Judge and member of the legislature.  
Being ap­pointed attorney for the International & Great Northern 
Railroad Company, with a group of counties, Palestine being the 
center, he removed to that city where he lived until his death in 
1903.  In 1861, Judge Gould was married to Miss Ellen Spivey who died 
in 1890, and in 1892 he married Miss Florence Finch.  He leaves four 
children; Minnie, wife of Hon. N. B. Morris, a leading lawyer of 
Palestine; Ellen, Robert A., and Grace.  Judge Gould was a profound 
lawyer, a brave soldier, and a man of pleasihg personality.