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The Evening Tribune
Pawtucket, Providence County, Rhode Island
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Lawyer Everett Fowler gifts Jay Gould's 1850s wheelbarrow odometer, used for road mapping in Ulster and Delaware counties, NY, to his daughter Helen Gould. Anecdote recounts Gould's 50-mile walk over mountains from Catskill to Roxbury in 1853.
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Lawyer Everett Fowler of New York has presented to Miss Helen Gould, daughter of the late Jay Gould, the wheelbarrow with odometer attachment used by her father during the fifties in taking measurements of roads in Ulster, Delaware and other counties in that state when he was making maps. Mr. Fowler came across this machine in the garret of a farmer's house. He added it to his collection, but, learning that Miss Gould had a fondness for articles owned by her father when a youth, gave it to her.
Jay Gould, judging by what old timers say, was a great pedestrian. A former resident of Roxbury, Delaware county, says that Gould struck Catskill one Saturday evening some time about the year 1853 and walked from that village over two ranges of mountains to Roxbury, a distance of more than 50 miles, reaching his home before daylight.—Exchange.
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Ulster, Delaware Counties, New York; Catskill; Roxbury
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Fifties; About The Year 1853
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Everett Fowler presents Jay Gould's old wheelbarrow odometer, used for road surveying in 1850s New York counties, to his daughter Helen due to her fondness for his youthful possessions. Anecdote describes Gould's impressive 50-mile overnight walk from Catskill to Roxbury over mountains in 1853.