Medora Williams Gould (1866 - 1944)

Born Sep 1866 in Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States

Died 1944 at about age 77 in Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Medora Gould is Notable.

Birth

Medora Gould was born in 1866 in Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, the daughter of William Gould and Amelia Gould.^[1]

She is the oldest of WBG's children and is born in Nantucket. She works at home and never marries. She is a well-read woman, and some of her books are handed down through the generations.^[2]

In 1906, the Niagara Movement^[3] treasurer's receipt of cash received in membership dues included 4 women who were full members. Miss F. Eva Lewis, Miss Medora Gould, Mrs. M.A. McAdoo and Mrs. I. G. Hunt. ^[4]

'...these heroines follow the precepts that Medora Gould offers in her Woman's Era literature column; Gould takes the recent publication of Longfellow's entire poetic oeuvre in one work,..^[5]

She passed away in 1944, and is buried at Brookdale Cemetery in Norfolk County, Massachussetts.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910. (From original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB191/i/9068/263/121633029
2. ↑ Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor by William B. Gould IV (Stanford University Press, 2002). She is mentioned a few times throughout the book about her father and his diaries.
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Movement
4. ↑ African American Civil Rights: Early Activism and the Niagara Movement By Angela Jones page 257
5. ↑ Activist Sentiments, Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century, P. Gabrielle Foreman .page 206
6. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67599176/medora-williams-gould : accessed 22 February 2022), memorial page for Medora Williams Gould (1866–1944), Find A Grave: Memorial #67599176, citing Brookdale Cemetery, Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Spaceman Spiff (contributor 46783007). Includes gravestone image and photo of her.

• Residence (1870) Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
• Residence (1880) Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
• Residence (1900) Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
• Residence (1910) Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
• Residence (1920) Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
• Residence (1930) Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
• Residence (1935) Same House
• Residence (1940) Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67599176/medora-williams-gould : accessed 21 February 2022), memorial page for Medora Williams Gould (1866–1944), Find a Grave Memorial ID 67599176, citing Brookdale Cemetery, Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Spaceman Spiff (contributor 46783007) .

• mentioned on her father's wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Gould

• Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies, Elizabeth McHenry, Duke University Press, 2002 - reviews Medora's Women's Era articles:

24 Mar 1894 page 9.

1 May 1894 page 10.

Jun 1894, page 11.

Sep 1894, page 10-11.

• Defining the Struggle: National Racial Justice Organizing, 1880-1915 - Page 201, Susan D. Carle · 2013

• Other Brahmins, Boston Black Upper Class (c) - Page 84

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org), entry for Medora Gould (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:MFNW-9HX ); contributed by various users.