Jay Gould: America's Most Ruthless Robber Baron
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- It's hard to deny that Jay Gould was one of the wealthiest American businessmen of the 19th century, but he also might have been the most brazen criminal in North America.
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At the end of his life, Gould owned the Gothic Mansion Lyndhurst near Tarrytown. He left it to his daughter who left it to the state of New York. It can be visited today and is worth it.
They never talk much that the industry titans had wives who were philanthropic socialites. These women took great pride in their charitable contributions and huge fortunes also went to them upon death
That one time when something exciting ALMOST happened in Minnesota.
LOL !!
How u saying that after we started a worldwide protest movement 😂🤔
@@Boogalyhu I was being facetious.
I've heard curtiousness is contageous, I believe it's corruption.
So this is who Jan Levinson was married to before she met Michael Scott. That explains a lot..
Lol as someone who just started watching the office recently, I appreciate this comment
@@MaleviahBurned Oh, you are in for a treat, my friend. The Office is my favorite tv show, and will probably remain so for a long time. Enjoy the rest of it!
You win sir!!
@@ciobanubucur oh I'm into season 5 already, it's amazing
@@MaleviahBurned be prepared to cry a lot
"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half." - Jay Gould
This line was just quoted by him in The Gilded Age ..which brought me here
I want to know more about Lord Gordon-Gordon
Me too
I will go confront grants notes
Watch the Drunk History on him
I hear about ruthless people all the time. Nobody ever seems to actually have ruth. Are we sure ruth is actually a thing?
Maybe Simon should do a Today I Found Out video about that.
Your comment reminds me: My mom’s favorite sketch on Your Show of Shows was the one where Sid Caesar, playing a mafia leader, was told by his girlfriend that he was uncouth. He turned to his henchman and said, “I got no couth! Go out and get me some couth!”
There is an objective reality outside of your limited subjective experience. Anything more than that is just philosophical masturbation
Obviously not considering people are ‘ruthless’
A certain proessional baseball catcher/pitcher/shortstop, first name George, middle name Herman, had it. 😁
1:40 - Chapter 1 - Early years
3:35 - Chapter 2 - Young businessman
5:40 - Chapter 3 - The erie war
10:15 - Chapter 4 - Gould meets gordon
14:15 - Chapter 5 - Black friday
17:30 - Chapter 6 - Final years
Jay Gould has always fascinated me as a historical figure. Thank you for profiling him. 😊
❤️/ love jay gould got his books
@@loydkline4686 can you recommend a book about him?
I attended the school that his grandson started...the wealth that he had obtained was quite evidently used to create the school. Never once did they mention his name to us 😂😂😂.
That’s awesome! I’m glad You finally did a video about someone from DELCO
Jay Gould's private railcar, the Atalanta, Is parked up near downtown Jefferson, Texas. The city famously would not allow one of Gould's railroads to pass through the town in 1872, and upon leaving his stay in the town, he wrote "The End of Jefferson" in the guestbook of the Excelsior Hotel, which still stands today. It is also claimed that he declaired due to their refusal to allow his railroad, Jefferson would have "Grass growing in the street and bats in the belfries." At the time, Jefferson was one of the largest inland ports in the US, and was a large center for trade. The next year in 1873, the US Army Corps of Engineers blew up the large logjam that cause water levels to be high enough for ships to travel to Jefferson, and the Big Cypress Bayou was drained significantly, which spelled doom for the town as a center of commerce. Some say that the railroad companies, especially Gould's, had a hand in making this happen. The town of about 2,500 still exists today though! While I don't vibe with someone like Gould in the slightest, It was great fun getting to see the lavish railcar, you could really tell how rich the guy was. I recommend paying a visit sometime!
The hotel markets the room he stayed in as "haunted". They tell stories of people leaving in the middle of the night because of "ghosts".
I spent the night there and slept just fine. What a disappointment 😂😂
Jefferson is a nice place. It's become a wannabe biker hangout on the weekends, but still a nice place. I recommend visiting the museum.
Literally live by there and you just reminded me of this! 😂 I’ve walked through the rail car and he musta been one short man
Sounds like Monty Burns from the simpsons
The greatest sitcom villain of all time
Excellent Smithers, excellent...
Geographics, Biographics, Today I Found Out, Megaprojects, & Business Blaze....Simon has single handedly saved me from brain death from boredom. Keep up the quality work, my friend.
But on that note, you can slow down man. We will ALL be here if you need a little breather.
Not quite single handedly.............. Host - Simon Whistler Author - Radu Alexander Producer - Jennifer Da Silva Executive Producer - Shannon Harris
Please do an episode on John Jacob Astor; America’s first (multi)millionaire.
Hi Simon, love your channels! Any chance we could get a bio on Charles Upham, the only combatant double VC?
Great video!!
If I remember correctly there was a movie with Cary Grant about fisk’s life which included all the characters mentioned.
Well done Simon.
Apparently Mr. Russel in Guilded Age is partially based off of Gould so here I am
Thank you for this video. I love his castle, Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown NY.
0:56 A technique still employed today, "Click bait"
Simon....once more, well done.
Thank you .
Jay Gould. A huge influence on my business career. Be ruthless, be cunning, out work your competition and win at any cost.
Black Friday is the Friday after Thanks Giving in the US. It is the day where nearly every business ends up with their books in black ink (profit) rather than red ink (losses) because of all the holiday season shopping and sales.
The Market crash was Black Monday. Not quite sure how it got it's name, possibly because it was the single worst day in stock market history. (The Great Depression was a slower decline but lasted much longer).
I would love to see a Biographics episode on HG Wells :D
I dont know why the title remains me of 'Jay and the Americans' lmao love that band! "Come a little bit closer, your my kind of man, so big and so strong. Come a little bit closer, I'm all alone and the night is so long."
I went to his his school lakeside in Spring Valley NY and I loved it and us kids who went there in the 70s we still keep in touch today . Edwin gould was his name.
I just watched a video of your 4 years ago when you didn't have a beard and well I have been converted I don't normally like beards but on you Simon you look so much better. Go the beard💕
Please do one of Ray Kroc the founder of McDonald’s lol. I watched the movie today and I feel as if something is missing and his story wasn't fully told! I love your channels your voice helps me with my insomnia
He introduced corn syrup on a mass scale to American kids
Your channel is growing faster than my hair
Big fan of your voice
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Are we sure this man isn’t Simon Whistler? They have identical Beards!
Thats just his stage name, his author broke that news.
and now you know. time travel!
Simon is just an actor reading a script, the channel is actually run by other people
Yes we know
The beard has its own channel(s)
Can you do a video on the life of Emmett Till and his death and the murders of his death?
Black Lives Matter. Yes I agree that would be a relevant video to reflect the current struggle.
The murders of his death....
Don't you have some protesting to do? Typing consice sentences isn't your strong suit.
@@lesnash6953 Oh I'm sorry I don't remember asking for your opinion but thanks. POSITIVE VIBES ONLY👌
Gould sounds a bit like 'Galt' in Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
a man who probably feels like his "genius" isn't being appreciated? I can see the connection.
Jay Gould was even more colorful than he sounded on here.
If I could request- I'd love to see a Biographics on Jesse James!
I would love to see a biographic on John Brown (The Abolitionist)
Check out History no chasers channel. There's a a lot about him there. It's an amazing channel for black history. ✌🏾
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Nice background music.
Hopefully they'll do Sir Nichols Winton.
He was dubbed the "British Schindler" as he saved nearly 700 Jewish kids in Czechoslovakia in WW2!
A shame I had never heard of him before. I just did a bit of reading on him - quite interesting. Thank you.
@Jack Storm tf are you on about?
@Jack Storm I'll pray for you
Varnava K 😊
@Jack Storm I learnt along time ago there's nothing wrong with idiocy. The real danger comes from the smart fuckwits.
A credible historian studied Gould and found that he only ruined people who attempted to double cross him first.
EmperorJuliusCaesar, if the library is open I’ll go find the book, assuming the Friends of the Library hasn’t sold it.
The Gould family owns SO MUCH land in my area.
I think it'd be interesting to see a biographics on Bobby Fischer though I'm sure you have a ton of other suggestions
Hello Simon !
This is by far my favorite era in American history
Double names are a treat almost every time
Can you do one of these on Robert Todd Lincoln and all of The Descendants from President Abraham Lincoln? I think that would be really cool
Lord Gordon Gordon would be a perfect match for General Gregor MacGregor. I wonder what type of ingenious cons this pair of swindlers would have been able to pull! 😁
As originally planned the Erie ran from Piermont, NY to Dunkirk, NY. Built with a track gauge of 6’ vs the North American standard of 4’8.5”. That was a headache the Erie had to spend scarce cash to rectify. Piermont wound up becoming a ferry connection north of New York (the City) to New England. As for Dunkirk, it wouldn’t amount to being a rival to Buffalo. Problems with this route were steep grades and sharp curves. Dunkirk is a small shallow harbor. Competing routes were built out of Hornell to Buffalo and Corning to Rochester, with a connection to Buffalo via Avon and Attica, NY. So, all that left the Erie at a competitive disadvantage to Vanderbilt’s longer but standard gauge route connecting the majority of important cities across the state.
@cmdrflake
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make one about Lord Gordon-Gordon
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Simon would you please consider doing a biographical, or perhaps a today I found out about the American folk singer Woody Guthrie. I’m from Oklahoma, and would love you to do something on one of our native sons. Remember this machine kills fascists. Thank you, love all your channels. A. Ferguson
Can you please do a video on the mystery cults of ancient greece. And of other ancient cultures if just the ones from Greece don't give you a long enough video for this channel. Thanks
if you do please don't gloss over the second class status of the women, ty!
That's awesome
Please do videos on the following people:
1. Dennis Rader
2. Jack London
3. Upton Sinclair
4. Jack Ketchum
5. Jane Austen
6. Anton LaVey
7. Annaliese Michel
interesting fact
Gould bought the Wabash railroad, UP, and a few other railroads in hopes of creating the transcontinental railroad.
@UCvmEbKC9djKwQc6f59w-APQ thank for the additional information :)
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I live in a town named after him!! So very interesting!!
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Technically we already have 21st century "Robber Barons". Jeff Bezos, for starters.
George Soros
His daughter Helen financed the construction of a major building at Robert College in Istanbul. It is called Gould Hall.
Why isnt there a biographic about Admiral Michiel de Ruyter of the Netherlands? The greatest admiral ever! 🙂
Makes me wanna play Sid Meier's Railroads! again.
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My home town is named after him Gouldsboro Pennsylvania
Could you do Erich "Bubi" Hartmann Germany's greatest fighter pilot in ww2.
i read the wikipedia article on him and JG52, his squadron. he had HUNDREDS of kills, and the rest of his men weren't too bad either. they made the allied "aces" look pathetic. it's a really good read, and yes, an excellent Bio candidate, i think.
@@em1osmurf True
Adolf Galland and Ernst Udet
Greatest fighter pilot of all time. 👍👍👍
Please do a piece on Sophie Scholl or the White Rose in general. These heroes deserve and need way more recognition
Oh hell yeah, SECOND!
would you do one on Lord Lucan?
Would love to see one on Mary Rippon
Please consider a video on James j Hill. Him and his family were behind great northern railroad and.... Their money lasted longer than just about any other "old family money", especially since it still lasts in generation skipping trust funds. The same family is behind Hill brand pears and hill properties etc.
Here's an idea.
Girolamo Savanarola: Florence's Bonfire of the Vanities
YES! savanarola burnt florence to terrorism under the Pope Borgia. Alexander III I think. I'll Google real quick (edit Pope Alexander Sixtus I revoke my own nerd card)
Lmao wasn’t that an assassins creed 2 dlc?
@@Cj-xt6tv Yes. I actually liked that one.
Lol, I’m from Minnesota and I’ve never heard of lord Gordon Gordon, but it sounds hilarious
19th century version of Bill Gates without the idiocy of 'global warming is real and my vaccine will stop it.'
Please do one about Jan Janszoon of Haarlem aka Moerad Raïs de Jongere
Jay Gould, the literal inspiration for the Jekyll Island pact.
Merry Christmas from Jekyll island. The gift that keeps on taking.
Now that needs its own episode.
Your beard inspires me.
I have a question, do you have a video of Cardinal Richelieu? If you haven't, would you do one? 😁
Have you thought about doing Pompey the Great? I feel like he would make for an interesting video.
I’d love to see a video on michael collins
Nice.
Do a video about a Canadian famous person, specifically Agnes McPhail who was Canada's first female Member of Parliament that managed to reform the prison system here at the time. i'd love to see that
I have an idea for a video Mustafa Kemal:Defender of Gallipoli
And father of the modern secular Turkish state
@@jamesharvey3993 yep
I would like to see a bio graphic of Zheng He. The Chinese admiral
When are we getting a Lord Byron Video
Next do a bio on Seargent York. WWI veteran that even had a movie made about him.
Would love to see an episode on General Smedley Butler USMC!! Oorah
Have you ever read butler's book war is a racket? Quite interesting read!
As an aggressive business man I dont think he is worse than Vanderbilt.
Lived by Gouldsboro my whole life and never heard anything about this guy. It is crazy how history gets lost.
You didn’t go to school? Robber barons is an 8th grade topic
@@Cj-xt6tv lol you learn that in school, i wish i was from the US damn
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Can we get videos on spies such as Walsingham, Kim Philby, RN Kao etc. ?
Less than 500 views! I've never been this early.
Funny, I was at Little Jay Gould Lake in Northern Minnesota yesterday.. I had no idea who Jay Gould was. Nice lake... Greedy guy.
I’ve got respect for these guys. At least they did something
It would be great if you please make a video on Leo Tolstoy.
I just watched Hamilton yesterday - an amazing musical. I wonder how much of it is fiction. And I do wish you can make video of him someday 😁
I heard his story on a birthday trip to Jefferson TX a few years back
I stayed in his room at the Excelsior Hotel
Here's me thinkin' "the quintessential robber baron" was that mustachioed guy in the top hat in the 'Monopoly' set.
Im a direct descendant of Gould. Still have some of his possessions, including some of his rather cryptic gold watches. And yes, he is an unsavory person for sure.
Did you know him personally?
@@SL4US yes he sure did. it's not like the man died in 1892 or something
His daughter Helen financed the construction of a major building at Robert College in Istanbul. It is called Gould Hall.
Pics or it didn't happen
@@simplez4ck Yes of course. I will take my Cannon back to the 1800's, and get high def. pictures and video just for youtube. Be back in a moment, or more like never...
His heart was as cold as ice. His love was money and only money. When he improved the infrastructure of a rail line it was only for a gain in his investments. Cold and calculating.
Roxbury, NY was a small town. That photo looks suspiciously like the Boylston Street Station on the Boston Common.
One of Gould's biggest miscalculations was leaving the bulk of his business interests to his eldest son, George. George lost money and control of several businesses while Frank, Howard, and Edwin made fortunes. What does it say about E.H. Harriman that when he took control of the Union Pacific, he was looked on as "the second coming" of Jay Gould by many.
That's Sir John A. MacDonald Simon, whom you should do a biographics about 😉
Hey Simon please do the ruthless businessman "Henry Clay Frick"! he was affiliated with Andrew Carnegie.
I live near the ROW of the old Albany and Susquehanna railroad. This connected to the New York Central at Albany, NY and the Erie at Binghamton, NY. Gould and Fisk attempted to take over the A&S through many devious means and even tried to grab it forcefully at one point. There was a literal war fought between the Gould & Fisk faction and the A&S faction. A famous battle between the who forces was fought near the community of Tunnel New York. This event is depicted in the fictional film Saratoga Trunk.
At the end the A&S prevailed, but the railroad was left in such a poor financial state that it was eventually leased to the Delaware & Hudson Canal company. The resulting Delaware & Hudson railroad was up till recently the oldest transportation company in the US. It is currently just another piece of the NS system.