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GOULD. GOULD, 259 committee on railroads and a member of the committee on the state-house and cities. He was one of the organizers of the Nor- folk County Club, and with the late George Draper of Hopedale, he took an active part in organizing the Home Market Club, which was established for the protection of home labor and home industries, which has a membership of nearly twenty-five hundred members, and of which he is now one of the executive committee. Major Gould is also a member of the G. A. R., being past commander of Post 117 of Medfield ; is a Mason of high standing, and a member of the Military Order of the I. oval Legion. He assisted in the organi- zation of the Republican League of the United States, which has a membership of over one million, and he was chosen one of a sub-executive committee of nine of this organization. He is also the father of the State Republican League. He has been repeatedly urged to be a candidate for Congress, with an excellent prospect of success. In June, 1888, he was chosen a delegate to the national Republican con- vention held at Chicago, and was elected vice-president, representing Massachusetts. As a recognized leader among the friends of General Harrison, voting for his can- didate on every ballot, he was enabled to perform signal service towards secur- ing the vote of the Massachusetts and other delegations for the successful candi- date. Major Gould, as he is familiarly known, has also been actively and successfully en- gaged as a shipper of grain and coal on his own account for nearly a quarter of a cen- tury, is a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and enjoys an excellent reputation. GOULD, Levi Svvanton, sou of Dr. Levi and Elisabeth Webb (VVhitmore) Gould, was born March 27, 1834, at Dix- mont, Penobscot county, Maine. His an- cestors were John Gould, an inhabitant of Charlestown in 1655, who died in Stoneham in l'jtjo, and Francis VVhitmore, ancestor of the Whitmore and Wetmore families, who lived in Cambridge in 1649, and who died there in 1685. When six months old, his parents moved to his father's native town, Stoneham, and in 1843 settled in North Maiden, now Mel- rose. He was educated in the public schools of Maiden and at Waitt's and In- galls academies in Melrose Early in life Mr. Gould learned the shoe- maker's trade and worked at the bench in North Maiden, where, according to the custom of the time, he would make up a lot of shoes, pack them in a bag prepared for the purpose, carry them on his back to Stoneham, two miles away, receive his pay and a new lot of stock, and return for another season of work. In 1850 he became a clerk in the fancy goods house of Messer, Warren & Davis in Boston. In 1857 he went West and found employment with Alexander Leitch, a prominent druggist of St. Louis. Upon the election of Abraham Lincoln, Mr. Gould received an appointment in the office of the secretary of the treasury at Washington, and was later in the navy agent's department in Boston, In 1866 he became connected with F. M. Holmes & Co., manufacturers of furniture, and in 1878 purchased Mr. Holmes's interest in the business, which he has since continued as senior partner, under the firm name of F. M. Holmes Furniture Company, the fac- tory of which concern is in Charlestown, and the ware-rooms in Boston On the 23d of February, i860, Mr. Goidd was married in Melrose, to Mary Eliza Payne. Their two children are: Mary Pearl and Annie Elizabeth Gould. LEVI S. GOULD. During the two sessions of 1868 and '69 Mr. Gould was representative in the Gen- eral Court, of the district of Melrose, Wake-