BIO: George GOULD, Beaver County, PA
  
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  BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES.  This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches 
  of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.  Buffalo, N.Y., 
  Chicago, Ill.: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899, pp. 232-235.
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  GEORGE GOULD, superintendent of the Butts Cannel Coal Company, and a resident
  of East Palestine, Ohio, was born near Bath, England. He accompanied his
  parents to this country, when but seven years old. He received his
  educational training at East Palestine. After leaving school he determined to
  learn the business of coal operating, and started in at the bottom of the
  ladder as a digger in the coal fields of Pennsylvania. He gradually worked
  his way up, and his first appointment to a position of responsibility was as
  superintendent under Captain Hicks in his mine at Bagdad, Westmoreland
  county. About fifty men found employment in this mine, and most of the mine's
  product was sold to the railroads.
  
  After retaining that position for three years, Mr. Gould resigned. In 1888,
  he bought an interest in the Sterling Mining Co., producers of coal and clay,
  at Cannelton, Beaver county, Pennsylvania. He was superintendent of the
  company's mines for five years, having under him one hundred men.
  
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  Later he sold his interest to Mr. Heilman. Mr. Gould had also been manager
  for the Butts Cannel Coal Co., but finding the duties of both positions too
  arduous, he decided to give his entire attention to the Butts Company, and
  consequently resigned the superintendency of the Sterling Company. He opened
  and developed the Butts Company's mines. They are producers of very fine
  cannel coal.
  
  They employ fifty-two men and have a nine-foot vein of cannel coal. This coal
  is very fine for making gas and is found in few places in this country. Two
  other places where it is found in paying quantities are at Falling Rock, West
  Virginia, and Bear Creek, Kentucky. The products of the Butts Co.'s mines are
  shipped to all parts of the United States and, Canada.
  
  Mr. Gould married Belle Atchison, of East Palestine, Ohio, and resides in a
  handsome residence a short distance from the mines, to which he drives daily.
  Mrs. Gould is a native of East Palestine, where she also received her
  scholastic training. Four children bless the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gould,
  namely: William, aged eleven; Charles, aged seven; Ellen, three years old;
  and George, Jr., a baby of eight months.
  
  Mr. Gould is a stockholder of the Elk Run Mining Co., miners of soft coal,
  and is president of the same. Other members of the company are Messrs. Lanor,
  Flynn and Bycroft, - the first named being also secretary and treasurer. The
  offices of the company are at Lisbon, Ohio. The subject of these lines is a
  Republican. He is a member of the town council, a school director, and is
  serving on the board of education. He belongs to the M. E. church, of which
  he is a trustee. He is a member of the Palestine Lodge, F. & A. M., also of
  the I. O. O. F.