Gould, Henry Wadsworth

Overview

Transcript copy of "The Descendants of William Gould of Pomfret Town and West Springfield," a narrative history of the William Gould family of New York and Pennsylvania from the 1740s to the 1930s, written by Henry Wadsworth Gould in 1931 and 1932. Includes birth, marriage, and death dates as well as information about family farms and homesteads.

Content Description Two articles by Henry W. Gould, Professor of Mathematics at West Virginia University, with related material. One of the articles, "History of the Old Telescope and Observatory at West Virginia University", was originally published in 1967 and regards the early study of astronomy at the university ca. 1872-1919. Related is a one page article, which references Gould's, regarding the burning of the old observatory in 1919. The other article by Gould is a six-page paper entitled "Where Has Gone...