Editing Jay Gould (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Lyndhurst (mansion).jpg|thumb|Gould purchased [[Lyndhurst (mansion)|Lyndhurst]] on the east bank of the [[Hudson River]] as a country home in 1880]]
[[File:Gould portrait.jpg|thumb|Gould's portrait hanging in his office at Lyndhurst]]

Gould was a member of [[West Presbyterian Church (New York City)|West Presbyterian Church]] at 31 West 42nd Street. It later merged with Park Presbyterian to form [[West-Park Presbyterian (New York City)|West-Park Presbyterian]].<ref name=West-Park>[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]]. [http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2338.pdf New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission: "West-Park Presbyterian"], nyc.gov; accessed September 25, 2018.</ref>

He married Helen Day Miller (1838–1889) in 1863 and they had six children. Together with his son George, Gould was a founding member of [[American Yacht Club (New York)|American Yacht Club]].<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The World|date=April 20, 1884|title=In the Sporting World, Why the American Yacht Club Was Organized|page=12|location=New York}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Rye Chronicle|date=July 17, 1958|location=Rye, New York|page=1|title=Yacht Club celebrating its 75th Anniversary}}</ref> He owned the steam yacht [[Atalanta (1883)]]. In 1880, he purchased the [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]] mansion [[Lyndhurst (mansion)|Lyndhurst]] (sometimes spelled "Lindhurst"), to use as a country house.

On December 2, 1892, Gould died of [[tuberculosis]], then referred to as consumption, and was interred in the [[Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx|Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, New York]]. For tax purposes, his fortune was conservatively estimated at $72 million (equivalent to ${{Format price|{{Inflation|US|72000000|1892}}}} in {{CURRENTYEAR}}{{Inflation/fn|US}}), which he willed in its entirety to his family.<ref name="tycoon"/>

At the time of his death, Gould was a benefactor in the reconstruction of the [[Reformed Church]] of [[Roxbury, New York]], now known as the Jay Gould Memorial Reformed Church.<ref>[http://www.churches.rca.org/gouldchurch/history.htm History of the Reformed Church of Roxbury, Delaware County, New York] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080923222102/http://www.churches.rca.org/gouldchurch/history.htm |date=September 23, 2008 }}, churches.rca.org; accessed May 3, 2014.</ref> It is located within the [[Main Street Historic District (Roxbury, New York)|Main Street Historic District]] and listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1988.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref> The family mausoleum was designed by Francis O'Hara.