Helen Day Miller

Helen Day Miller (September 20, 1838 - January 13, 1889) was the wife of the financier Jay Gould.

Biography

Early life

Helen Day Miller was born on September 20, 1838, in Manhattan, New York, the fourth child of Daniel Stratton Miller and Ann Kip Bailey. Her father, a prosperous merchant, was forty, and her mother Ann was twenty-nine. Her parents lived in The prestigious Murray Hill neighborhood in Manhattan and were prominent members of New York society.

Marriage

Helen met her future husband Jay Gould through her father David. They married on January 22, 1863, she was twenty-four and he was twenty-six years old. Together they had six children:

• George Jay Gould I (1864–1923), married Edith M. Kingdon (1864–1921)
  • Kingdon Gould Sr. (1887–1945), married Annunziata Camilla Maria Lucci (1890–1961)
  • Jay Gould II (1888–1935), married Anne Douglass Graham
  • Marjorie Gould (1891–1955), married Anthony Joseph Drexel II
  • Helen, Lady Decies (1893–1931), married John Graham Hope DeLaPoer Horsley Beresford (1866–1945)
  • George Jay Gould II (1896–1963), married Laura Carter
  • Edith Catherine Gould (1901–1937), married Carroll Livingston Wainwright I (1899–1967), then Sir Hector Murray MacNeal
  • Gloria Gould (1906–1943), married Henry A. Bishop II, then Walter McFarlane Barker
• Edwin Gould I (1866–1933), married Sarah Cantine Shrady
  • Edwin Gould Jr. (1894–1917), died on Jekyll Island in 1917
  • Frank Miller Gould (c. 1895–1945), married Florence Amelia Bacon, died on January 13, 1945
• Helen Gould (1868–1938), married Finlay Johnson Shepard (1867–1942) They adopted three children.
• Howard Gould (1871–1959), married Viola Katherine Clemmons on October 12, 1898, then actress Grete Mosheim in 1937
• Anna, Duchess de Talleyrand-Périgord (1875–1961), married Paul Ernest Boniface, Comte de Castellane (1867–1932), then Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, 5th Duke of Talleyrand, 5th Duc of Dino, 4th Duke von Sagan, and Prince of Sagan (1858–1937).
  • Children with Boniface:
    • Marie Louise Boniface de Castellane (1896–?), died during infancy or early childhood
    • Antoine Boniface, Marquis de Castellane (1896–1946), married Yvonne Patenôtre
    • Georges Paul Ernest Boniface de Castellane (1897 or 1899–1944), married Florinda Fernández y Anchorena (1901–?)
    • Georges Gustave Boniface de Castellane (c. 1898–1946)
    • Jay Boniface de Castellane (1902–1956)
  • Children with Talleyrand:
    • Howard de Talleyrand, duc de Sagan (1909–1929), he killed himself when told that he could not marry
    • Helen Violette de Talleyrand-Périgord (1915–2003), married James Robert de Pourtales on March 29, 1937, then Gaston Palewski (1901–1984)
• Frank Jay Gould (1877–1956), married Helen Kelley; then Edith Kelly; then Florence La Caze (1895–1983)

Death

Miller died on January 13, 1889, in Manhattan, New York, and was later interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, New York, in the Gould family mausoleum.