Finley Johnson Shepard

Finley Johnson Shepard and Helen Miller Gould at the Meadowbrook Polo Club on June 14, 1913 for the Newport Cup

Finley Johnson Shepard (1867-1942) was the Eastern representative of the Missouri Pacific Railroad.

Biography

He married Helen Miller Gould, the daughter of Jay Gould.^[1][2]

References

1. "Helen Against Revolution". Time magazine. January 25, 1932. Retrieved 2008-07-30. It was not until 1913 that she married Railman Finley Johnson Shepard. In the 45 years of her spinsterhood—she was plain, plump, not much concerned with "Society" — she dedicated herself to good works while her brothers and sister went out in the world. She scarcely approved of Sister Anna, who spent much money, married successively Count Boniface ("Boni") de Castellane and the Due de Talleyrand; or smart Brother Frank Jay twice-divorced, who dabbled (and still does) in French gambling palaces; or her late Brother George Jay, whose second wife (Guinevere Sinclair) bore him three children before he married her in 1921. Helen Gould stayed by her father, who trained her in finance, took her in his confidence before he died of tuberculosis in 1892.
2. "Helen Gould Weds. Her Hudson Home a Floral Garden for Her Marriage to Finley J. Shepard.". New York Times. January 23, 1913. Retrieved 2007-06-18. The wedding of Miss Helen Miller Gould and Finley J. Shepard, Eastern representative of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, part of the great railroad system created by Jay Gould, the bride's father, was solemnized yesterday at 12:30 o'clock at Lyndhurst, the magnificent country estate of the bride at Tarrytown-on-the-Hudson.