lso became greatly interested in coal lands, and as he must find a
conveyance to bring his coal to market, he was naturally drawn into
railroad schemes. His ability and enterprise soon placed him on the
board of directors for such roads as the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western, and New Jersey Central, being at one time President of the
Houston and Texas.

He helped found several of the most noted Insurance Companies in the
country, and was a director until his death, of the Greenwich Saving
Bank, City Bank, The American Exchange National Bank, the United States
Trust Company, the Bowery Fire Insurance Company, and the Mutual Life
Insurance Company. He was President of the Chamber of Commerce, and
owned a very large number of saw-mills, besides carrying on the regular
business of the firm. What will those people, who would do this or that
if they only had time, say to all this work done by one man who then
found time to serve on the board of management of religious
organizations innumerable?

He was a great temperance advocate, giving thousands of dollars annually
toward the support of various societies. There were others who had
wealth, and gave possibly as much to the betterment of mankind as did
Dodge, but we cannot now recall any man of great wealth who would deny
himself as much personally, beside giving, as he did. In fact he seemed
to be crowded to death with work, yet he never refused to aid all who
were worthy applicants. For years he gave away annually over $200,000,
yet it was found at his death, February, 1883, that his wealth amounted
to something like $5,000,000, a large share of which was also given to
charitable purposes.

JAY GOULD.

We have written the lives of journalists, of eminent statesmen, but we
are now going to write the life of one of the most powerful men in
America. A man who has far greater influence over his fellow-men than
many a king or emperor, and a man who has played a most prominent part
in the development of our Republic.

Such a man is Jay Gould to-day who has risen to this dizzy height, from
a penniless boy on his father's farm, which he left at the age of only
fourteen to seek his fortune. He asked his father's permission first,
which was readily given, he thinking it would cure the boy of his
restlessness, and when young Gould left, his father fully expected to
see him again within a few days, but even the father was mistaken in
calculating the stick-to-it-iveness of