Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — HEIRESS TO $15,000,000. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HEIRESS TO $15,000,000.

Miss Helen M. Gould Who Is Woon to Appear in New York Society. The richest heiress in the country, Miss Helen M. Gould, only daughter of the late great financier and rail, road magnate, Jay Gould, is to make her debut the coming season in New York, and society is all agog to learn something of this young woman

whose life has been spent in compar. ative quiet and seclusion. Owing to the sickness first of her mother and then of her father, followed by their deaths, Miss Gould’s life has been more than ordinarily a domestic one and her debut in society has been postponed beyond the natural time. She is now a woman fairly into the twenties, and is described as a modest and charming lady. She is not very beautiful, but she makes up for any such deficiency by her weafth and her benevolence. She owns in her own right $15,000,000 in hard cash or in securities whose tendency is ever upward. Besides the family residence on Fifth avenue and the country house at Irvington on the Hudson, both valued at $1,300,000, are hers. Miss Gould is very charitable, and all her life work among the city poor has been her hobby. She is personally identified with numerous mission and benevolent organizations and dispenses large sums annually. She is a skillful musician, a noted pedestrian and horsewoman and a womanly woman.

MISS HELEN M. GOULD.