Jay Gould: America's Most Ruthless Robber Baron

[@darrenmclellan6712]

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.

[@Greg-yu4ij]

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

[@ntnrocket1]

Gould gave a big gift later in his life/career, and the newspapers complained that it wasn't big enough for "Such a rich family."

[@Scout-Fanfiction]

That one time when something exciting ALMOST happened in Minnesota.

[@ehrldawg]

LOL !!

[@Boogalyhu]

How u saying that after we started a worldwide protest movement 😂🤔

[@Scout-Fanfiction]

@@Boogalyhu I was being facetious.

[@charlesmichaelschmitt6412]

I've heard curtiousness is contageous, I believe it's corruption.

[@ciobanubucur]

So this is who Jan Levinson was married to before she met Michael Scott. That explains a lot..

[@MaleviahBurned]

Lol as someone who just started watching the office recently, I appreciate this comment

[@ciobanubucur]

@@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!

[@zackferris5268]

You win sir!!

[@MaleviahBurned]

@@ciobanubucur oh I'm into season 5 already, it's amazing

[@sevenhecks]

@@MaleviahBurned be prepared to cry a lot

[@ignitionfrn2223]

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

[@coolguyhino92]

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.

[@sarahgould2923]

Not quite single handedly.............. Host - Simon Whistler Author - Radu Alexander Producer - Jennifer Da Silva Executive Producer - Shannon Harris

[@emilyshmelimy]

I want to know more about Lord Gordon-Gordon

[@commissaryarrick9939]

Me too

[@commissaryarrick9939]

I will go confront grants notes

[@aristotleasparaguspodcast1129]

Watch the Drunk History on him

[@MC-gj8fg]

I hear about ruthless people all the time. Nobody ever seems to actually have ruth. Are we sure ruth is actually a thing?

[@Melissa0774]

Maybe Simon should do a Today I Found Out video about that.

[@MsMary957]

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!”

[@kevinaguilar9454]

There is an objective reality outside of your limited subjective experience. Anything more than that is just philosophical masturbation

[@codiefitz3876]

Obviously not considering people are ‘ruthless’

[@stephenwright8824]

A certain proessional baseball catcher/pitcher/shortstop, first name George, middle name Herman, had it. 😁

[@stephenwright8824]

"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half." - Jay Gould

[@worshipwins1]

This line was just quoted by him in The Gilded Age ..which brought me here

[@1eftnut]

Every rich man’s MO.

[@AceGibson1959]

Jay Gould. A huge influence on my business career. Be ruthless, be cunning, out work your competition and win at any cost.

[@DaBaiTube]

We are back to robber baron times

[@sirphineasluciusambercromb9114]

Musk/Ramaswamy = Gould/Fisk in 1869

[@rjskillz92]

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!

[@lesnash6953]

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.

[@WarrioroftheAges]

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

[@parkerj1900]

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 😂😂😂.

[@augsdoggs]

Please do an episode on John Jacob Astor; America’s first (multi)millionaire.

[@legendre007]

Jay Gould has always fascinated me as a historical figure. Thank you for profiling him. 😊

[@loydkline4686]

❤️/ love jay gould got his books

[@keepwondering_]

@@loydkline4686 can you recommend a book about him?

[@here_we_go_again2571]

Well done Simon.

[@teddydedominicis2763]

That’s awesome! I’m glad You finally did a video about someone from DELCO

[@dhawthorne1634]

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).

[@stewartgardiner9792]

Sounds like Monty Burns from the simpsons

[@annescholey6546]

The greatest sitcom villain of all time

[@djquinn11]

Excellent Smithers, excellent...

[@abelb.1532]

If I remember correctly there was a movie with Cary Grant about fisk’s life which included all the characters mentioned.

[@kendl.v9956]

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

[@Gjcdvjgcchjjcdf]

He introduced corn syrup on a mass scale to American kids

[@Michael-jf7np]

If I could request- I'd love to see a Biographics on Jesse James!

[@alexmihajlovski7705]

Great video!!

[@factsbook9983]

Your channel is growing faster than my hair Big fan of your voice Love from India♥️

[@elweasel2010]

0:56 A technique still employed today, "Click bait"

[@wietzepost]

Gould sounds a bit like 'Galt' in Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"

[@dorianj74]

a man who probably feels like his "genius" isn't being appreciated? I can see the connection.

[@cmdrflake]

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.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

@cmdrflake Thanks I'd forgotten that the New York and Erie's original southern terminal was in Piermont, NY instead of at the Pavonia Terminal in Jersey City, NJ ("Pavonia Terminal in Jersey City was open from 1861 to 1958" -Wiki) 1960 was when the Erie merged with the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western" to form the Erie-Lackawanna, with its terminal in Hoboken, NJ

[@hereticbennett22]

Can you do a video on the life of Emmett Till and his death and the murders of his death?

[@cpegg5840]

Black Lives Matter. Yes I agree that would be a relevant video to reflect the current struggle.

[@lesnash6953]

The murders of his death.... Don't you have some protesting to do? Typing consice sentences isn't your strong suit.

[@hereticbennett22]

@@lesnash6953 Oh I'm sorry I don't remember asking for your opinion but thanks. POSITIVE VIBES ONLY👌

[@epicjulian99]

I would love to see a Biographics episode on HG Wells :D

[@michelletran2637]

Apparently Mr. Russel in Guilded Age is partially based off of Gould so here I am

[@midlifeduck7040]

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

[@danastewart8709]

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.

[@jockellis]

A credible historian studied Gould and found that he only ruined people who attempted to double cross him first.

[@jockellis]

EmperorJuliusCaesar, if the library is open I’ll go find the book, assuming the Friends of the Library hasn’t sold it.

[@AQuietNight]

Jay Gould was even more colorful than he sounded on here.

[@ntnrocket1]

I really love these political/business newspaper cartoons from that era. And, they were accurate too. NYC's Boss Tweed was recognized in Europe while on the lam and brought to justice because people recognized him from those drawings.

[@cameronknight1567]

Hi Simon, love your channels! Any chance we could get a bio on Charles Upham, the only combatant double VC?

[@vperkv6554]

7:57 , it was illegal back than, yet, tht is what the stock market is. Utter bs and its even worse today.

[@doriangray6653]

Thank you for this video. I love his castle, Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown NY.

[@andyvalenzuela9763]

Hopefully they'll do Sir Nichols Winton. He was dubbed the "British Schindler" as he saved nearly 700 Jewish kids in Czechoslovakia in WW2!

[@varnavak568]

A shame I had never heard of him before. I just did a bit of reading on him - quite interesting. Thank you.

[@jamesenglish3031]

@Jack Storm tf are you on about?

[@maggetman69]

@Jack Storm I'll pray for you

[@andyvalenzuela9763]

Varnava K 😊

[@maggetman69]

@Jack Storm I learnt along time ago there's nothing wrong with idiocy. The real danger comes from the smart fuckwits.

[@SeanWells365]

The Gould family owns SO MUCH land in my area.

[@kenwaldron8548]

This is by far my favorite era in American history

[@fezaozenc]

His daughter Helen financed the construction of a major building at Robert College in Istanbul. It is called Gould Hall.

[@0fficialdregs]

interesting fact Gould bought the Wabash railroad, UP, and a few other railroads in hopes of creating the transcontinental railroad.

[@0fficialdregs]

@UCvmEbKC9djKwQc6f59w-APQ thank for the additional information :)

[@atheistonavmax7873]

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

[@Veng3enze]

I have to do an assessment on this guy thx for the stuff really appreciate it!

[@paddianneadorian3913]

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💕

[@tilltronje1623]

Please do a piece on Sophie Scholl or the White Rose in general. These heroes deserve and need way more recognition

[@The_Daily_Tomato]

Oh hell yeah, SECOND!

[@joshuapatrick682]

Jay Gould, the literal inspiration for the Jekyll Island pact.

[@spearshaker7974]

Merry Christmas from Jekyll island. The gift that keeps on taking.

[@Yaivenov]

Now that needs its own episode.

[@angelazayn4878]

When are we getting a Lord Byron Video

[@dustinnewberry2066]

I think it'd be interesting to see a biographics on Bobby Fischer though I'm sure you have a ton of other suggestions

[@evolvedcopper2205]

Double names are a treat almost every time

[@giolego9080]

Can you please do one about ed catmull , one of the founders of pixar.

[@kingscrub3386]

As an aggressive business man I dont think he is worse than Vanderbilt.

[@marissanicole375]

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."

[@omindon]

Lived by Gouldsboro my whole life and never heard anything about this guy. It is crazy how history gets lost.

[@Cj-xt6tv]

You didn’t go to school? Robber barons is an 8th grade topic

[@keepwondering_]

@@Cj-xt6tv lol you learn that in school, i wish i was from the US damn

[@isaiah7120]

Could you do Erich "Bubi" Hartmann Germany's greatest fighter pilot in ww2.

[@em1osmurf]

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.

[@isaiah7120]

@@em1osmurf True

[@annescholey6546]

Adolf Galland and Ernst Udet

[@joshstanton267]

Greatest fighter pilot of all time. 👍👍👍

[@paulanderson3772]

Simon....once more, well done.

[@rusoviettovarich9221]

19th century version of Bill Gates without the idiocy of 'global warming is real and my vaccine will stop it.'

[@TechSupport900]

Are we sure this man isn’t Simon Whistler? They have identical Beards!

[@kingaxle]

Thats just his stage name, his author broke that news.

[@em1osmurf]

and now you know. time travel!

[@quatreraberbawinner2628]

Simon is just an actor reading a script, the channel is actually run by other people

[@TechSupport900]

Yes we know

[@MisterAndrewBuckley]

The beard has its own channel(s)

[@thorpeaaron1110]

I have an idea for a video Mustafa Kemal:Defender of Gallipoli

[@jamesharvey3993]

And father of the modern secular Turkish state

[@thorpeaaron1110]

@@jamesharvey3993 yep

[@aaronferguson6284]

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

[@felipeguimaraes1359]

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! 😁

[@rami_ungar_writer]

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

[@karlabritfeld7104]

Upton Sinclair??? Huh?

[@semperuna1609]

Why isnt there a biographic about Admiral Michiel de Ruyter of the Netherlands? The greatest admiral ever! 🙂

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you .

[@ivanhunter6492]

would you do one on Lord Lucan?

[@matthewvelge1196]

The most ruthless people are the most successful people

[@joshuarogers378]

I live in a town named after him!! So very interesting!!

[@nickjohnson1997]

Here's an idea. Girolamo Savanarola: Florence's Bonfire of the Vanities

[@eowyn-faramir-reads]

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)

[@Cj-xt6tv]

Lmao wasn’t that an assassins creed 2 dlc?

[@nickjohnson1997]

@@Cj-xt6tv Yes. I actually liked that one.

[@hollydavid69]

Hello Simon !

[@JWKessler]

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.

[@evolvedcopper2205]

I like this side of our boy with the blaze

[@jamesmclain8022]

My home town is named after him Gouldsboro Pennsylvania

[@dscharlesworth1]

What is going on with that picture of Horace Greeley, were is that hair around his collar coming from?

[@djquinn11]

Horace “Hairy Neck” Greeley

[@LJB103]

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.

[@OpenlyPurpleSecret]

Jay Gould is my cousin. The stores shared in the family certainly do not depict things like this but I’m sure that’s just the POV we’re given

[@redchic]

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.

[@JonManProductions]

Makes me wanna play Sid Meier's Railroads! again.

[@last_week_with_diogo_br8386]

Make a new video how to t34 85 gai chinese version

[@acegibson9533]

Jay Gould is a business hero of mine. Great man. Built a fortune by any means necessary. Great business tactics. A man for the ages.

[@loydkline4686]

My hero too, got of his books

[@ElBandito]

Technically we already have 21st century "Robber Barons". Jeff Bezos, for starters.

[@triggertroy8266]

George Soros

[@CORPORAL-dn7nn]

Would love to see an episode on General Smedley Butler USMC!! Oorah

[@RunningWithScissors765]

Have you ever read butler's book war is a racket? Quite interesting read!

[@shanghaiconundrums4252]

Smooth rest cafe, huh? Nice background music.

[@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718]

Sounds like just about any billionaire today, the difference is the ones today simply seldom get caught (with the few that do thanking those responsible for getting them caught with car bombs), so legality of tactics doesn't matter.

[@ExcessumGaming]

Most of them yeah. But there are some exceptions. You can really see the difference in their investment and private life.

[@AlejandroSanchez-pl6jw]

Many of the billions donate money yet people still bitch about not being enough

[@ExcessumGaming]

@@AlejandroSanchez-pl6jw Problem is with those that dont or only do it to avoid taxes. The real value of a man is how they use that money to invest in what and how they live in private.

[@AlejandroSanchez-pl6jw]

Excessum Gaming so what they do it to avoid large taxes. No one wants to pay a lot of taxes no matter what pay grade you have

[@jreed136]

@@AlejandroSanchez-pl6jw Well, that would depend What am I getting out of it For instance, currently, in the US our healthcare system costs us 49 fucking trillion dollars A proposed socialized healthcare option is 32 trillion dollars Sooooooo

[@dani.phantm]

make one about Lord Gordon-Gordon

[@jjmarked4116]

That's awesome

[@marstondavis]

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.

[@mysock351C]

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.

[@SL4US]

Did you know him personally?

[@vad6423]

@@SL4US yes he sure did. it's not like the man died in 1892 or something

[@fezaozenc]

His daughter Helen financed the construction of a major building at Robert College in Istanbul. It is called Gould Hall.

[@simplez4ck]

Pics or it didn't happen

[@mysock351C]

@@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...

[@gregorysagegreene]

Here's me thinkin' "the quintessential robber baron" was that mustachioed guy in the top hat in the 'Monopoly' set.

[@becgould3772]

Hmmmm might have to look a bit more into my family history......

[@ProductionsJazzhands]

Waiting for the Biographics on Simon Whistler, Prague's most attractive man. (I was just joking y'all I know Simon wouldn't actually do that)

[@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718]

Prob never gonna happen, that would be too weird. Most people enjoy their privacy and don't like talking about themselves for 15 minutes straight or telling their life story to the world. Also, while Simon is not bad looking (I'm not a gaf or a girl so what do I know), if he's the best Prague has to offer I'd hate to see the worst.

[@davekennedy6315]

Prague? I thought this was filmed in the US? Plus, Simon's quite obviously a nicely spoken British chap.

[@davekennedy6315]

I stand corrected, I never knew this was filmed in Prague.

[@amruthanand1330]

ALLEGEDLY

[@b3ans4eva]

If you want to learn the occasional bit about Simon, go watch Business Blaze.

[@daleharsh6424]

Funny, I was at Little Jay Gould Lake in Northern Minnesota yesterday.. I had no idea who Jay Gould was. Nice lake... Greedy guy.

[@Cj-xt6tv]

I’ve got respect for these guys. At least they did something

[@mellowyellow403]

His business practices remind me of someone currently running a western country.....

[@yesete777]

Elizabeth II isn't that bad..

[@KalRandom]

Question for you. What would you do, you have bought something that is failing, you fixed it, and then resold it for a profit. What are you suppose to do?

[@CaliforniaBushman]

Hmmmm.... 🤔.

[@StephenSchaal]

Christ, can you guys go 5 minutes without displaying your TDS? Get a hobby.

[@Cj-xt6tv]

Stephen Schaal they seeming can’t. Can’t wait to see the reactions this November

[@ryansacks7721]

Do a video on Chadwick Boseman!! RIP😢

[@Cj-xt6tv]

He’s just an actor. Hardly deserves a biographic on him

[@amulyamishra5745]

Can we get videos on spies such as Walsingham, Kim Philby, RN Kao etc. ?

[@yeahyeahd]

no surprise that Minnesota is involved in one slightly interesting thing and our schools here still never taught us about it lol

[@omaroba1490]

Wow im early to a video. Im never this early. Wow feel like i just won an award. 🎓🎉i like to thank my 8th grade science teacher for always believing in me. My 10th grade history/Government teacher for building the love of history. And youtube for making history just on the reach for my fingertips. And my mom for being the MVP. And dad for working am to pm. Wow IM EARLY 😢

[@jamesclendon4811]

Just your luck--the lavish ceremony where you would have received the statuette for this momentous accomplishment has been cancelled. Not because of the coronavirus, but for lack of interest.

[@Elfan4]

I have a question, do you have a video of Cardinal Richelieu? If you haven't, would you do one? 😁

[@stenbak88]

Morals are one thing sure but at the end of the day he was a businessman so he did his job

[@HangManHang10]

Your channels are my favorite to watch while drunk

[@beachboy0505]

The business world is for tough people

[@marcusblackwell2372]

I heard his story on a birthday trip to Jefferson TX a few years back

[@lesnash6953]

I stayed in his room at the Excelsior Hotel