Jay Gould II

Jay Gould II (September 1, 1888 – January 26, 1935) was an American real tennis player and a grandson of the railroad magnate Jay Gould. He was the world champion (1914–1916) and the Olympic gold medalist (London, 1908, then under the name jeu de paume). He held the U.S. Amateur Championship title continuously from 1906–1925, winning 18 times (no tournaments were held during the U.S. involvement in World War I). During the same period, he never lost a set to an American amateur, and lost only one singles match, to English champion E.M. Baerlein. The court built for him by his father at the family's Georgian Court estate was restored in 2005. Jay Gould II is the great great uncle of US Olympic cyclist Georgia Gould, who qualified to race in the London 2012 Olympiad.

Biography

He was born on September 1, 1888 to George Jay Gould I.

Marriage and children

He married Anne Douglass Graham, a cousin of Princess Abigail Campbell Kawananakoa and a granddaughter of a Hawaiian chiefess, and had the following children:

• Eleanor Gould, born January 31, 1912, who married successively William N. Haskill III and Ludlow W. Stephens.
• Anne Douglass Gould, born March 5, 1913. She married and divorced Frank Spencer J. Meador, Herman H. Elsbury, Gus Wagoner, Ezra Wogoman, and Donald Valentine
• Jay Gould III (May 13, 1920 – May 11, 1987). He was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War II. He married Jennifer Beryl Bruce, the daughter of Nigel Bruce, in 1944 and divorced in 1946. He next married Blair Roemer Stevens on November 27, 1948. Gould married a third time on June 30, 1953 to Lina Romay, the singer and actress.

Death

He died on January 26, 1935, at Margaretville, New York. The cause of death was "hemorrhage of the esophagus brought on by a complexity of ailments."