Jacob Gould

Jacob Gould was the second overall and first Democratic mayor of Rochester, New York.

Biography

Jacob Gould was born in Boxford, Massachusetts on February 10, 1794.
He arrived in Rochester from Massachusetts as a school teacher and became one of the area's first shoemakers. He was a general in the New York State Militia. After his one-year term as mayor, Gould went on to work for Rochester banks, railroads, and at the University of Rochester as one of the school's first trustees.
He is also notable for having fought against the acquisition by the city of the land for Mount Hope Cemetery. Gould declared the hilly land was not "fit for pasturing rabbits." Despite this, he became one of the first people to buy a plot in the new cemetery.

Personal life

Gould married Ruby Swan in 1816, and they had three children. She died in 1840, and he remarried to Sarah T. Seward in 1847. They had three children.
He died in Rochester on November 18, 1867.