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ALBERT H. GOULD was born in Lincoln county, Me., August 4, 1842, and is one of four children, two boys and two girls, born to Joseph and Mary E. (Hamilton) Gould, bothof whom were natives of Maine; the former was born in December, 1815, and for many years was a lumberman in the states of Maine, New York and Pennsylvania, and came to Harlan county, Nebr., in 1871, after which he farmed until his death. May 23, 1883. The latter was born in 1820, and after a long and useful life died April 2, 1887.

The paternal grandfather was a lumberman in Maine and was killed in the woods by a falling tree when the father of our subject was but five or six years old.

When our subject was six years old he moved with his parents to Handy Hollow, N. Y., where his father went into the lumber business for two years and then moved to Yeomans Mill, in Tioga county, Pa., where he lived for one year, and then moved to Tioga village and engaged in the lumber business. Their next move was to Jackson, same county, where they settled on a farm and later engaged in the lumber and saw-mill business, living here in all about eleven years.

Albert H., our subject, enlisted in the war August 18, 1861, when but nineteen years of age, going as a private in Company E, Eighty-sixth regiment New York volunteers. He participated in the battle of Bull Run, lasting three days, after which he was affected with heart trouble and rheumatism to such an extent that he was sent to the hospital, where he was confined for some months and finally discharged April 2, 1863. He returned home and continued to reside in Tioga county until 1868, during which time he was engaged in farming. He moved to Marengo, Iowa county, Iowa, and resided there two and one-half years on a farm. He came to Harlan county, March 28, 1872, and homesteaded his present farm in section 1, township 1, range 18 west. He was one of the first settlers to settle in the Republican valley. The country teemed with buffalo, antelope and deer, with now and then an elk. He came to Harlan county in rather poor circumstances, possessing at the time but one team and two cows; the latter straying away soon after, were never heard from. His crops for the first few years were poor, with the exception of the second year, when he raised seven hundred bushels of wheat. His first house was a 12 by 16 foot dug-out. He was married December 28, 1864, to Hettie A. Jewell, who was born in Pennsylvania, December 28, 1844. Their union has resulted in the birth of four children — Lydia E., Fred A., Laura B. and Burt R.

Mr. Gould, though hard pressed by circumstances of an adverse nature in the first years of his life in Harlan county, has since prospered abundantly and is now the owner of a large landed estate with all the modern improvements and conveniences necessary to a comfortable life.

Politically he is a strong believer in the principals of the republican party. He is a member of Gould Post, G. A. R., at Republican City, it having been named after his father, who was in the same company and regiment as himself.