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Jay Gould (1836-1892) U.S. capitalist best known for entering into a scheme to corner the gold market, which resulted in the disastrous "Black Friday" panic of 1869.
Henry Hall, ed., America’s Successful Men of Affairs, an Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography. (New York: New York Printing Company, 1895) 392
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