Role Tennis player Name Jay II | Spouse(s) Anne Douglass Graham | |
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Born September 1, 1888 ( 1888-09-01 ) New York City Relatives Jay Gould, grandfatherGeorge Gould II, brother Parents Edith Kingdon, George Jay Gould I Siblings Kingdon Gould, Sr., Helen Beresford, Baroness Decies Cousins Dorothy Gould Burns, Boniface de Castellane, Georges de Castellane Grandparents Jay Gould, Helen Day Miller Similar People George Jay Gould I, Jay Gould, Edith Kingdon, Frank Jay Gould, Anna Gould | ||
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.
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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:
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."