Howard Gould (June 8, 1871 – September 13, 1959) was an American financier and the son of Jay Gould.

Gould was born in Manhattan on June 8, 1871^[1] to railroad financier Jay Gould (1836–1892) and Helen Day Miller (1838–1889). He was the fourth of six children among siblings George,^[2] Edwin,^[3] Helen,^[4] Anna^[5][6] and Frank.^[7]

His paternal grandparents were Mary (née More) Gould and John Burr Gould from Roxbury, New York.^[8] His maternal grandparents were Daniel Stratton Miller and Ann Kip (née Bailey) Miller, who were prominent members of New York society.^[9][10]

Gould was educated at Columbia College, where he matriculated with the class of 1894 but did not graduate, according to official records.^[11][12]

On February 24, 1898, Gould purchased a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and maintained an office at 195 Broadway in New York.^[13] By 1955, his seat was the second oldest on the Exchange and he maintained it until his death in 1959.^[1]

He served as a director of many railroad, telegraph and financial firms, including the Missouri Pacific Railway Co., Texas and Pacific Railway Co., Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railway, Kansas City Northwestern Railroad Co., Western Union Telegraph Co., International and Great Northern Railroad Co., Manhattan Railway Co., St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Co., Rio Grande Southern Railroad Co., Rio Grande Western Railroad Co., St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co., Western Maryland Railway Co., American Pneumatic Service Co.,^[14] New York Mail and Newspaper Transportation Co.,^[15] and the Gold & Stock Telegraph Co.^[16]

Gould was a competitive yachtsman and owned several vessels.

In 1894, Gould was engaged to marry actress Odette Tyler, but both of their families objected, and the engagement was broken.^{[21][22][23][24]}

On October 12, 1898, he married Katherine Clemmons (1874–1930).^[25][26] She was an actress whose career had been heavily subsidized by William F. Cody.^[27] She filed for a divorce in 1907,^[28] which was finalized in 1909, and Howard charged her with infidelity, naming Cody.^[29][30][31] Despite the allegations leveled at his wife in the divorce proceedings, Gould was ordered to pay $36,000 per year in alimony (approximately $1,221,000 today). It was the largest alimony settlement ordered up to that time.^[32] She died in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1930.^[33]

In 1937, he married the actress Grete Mosheim in London, having been a financier/producer on at least one of her London stage appearances.^[34] They divorced in 1947.^[35]

Gould died at Doctors Hospital in Manhattan on September 13, 1959, aged 88. He was his parents' last surviving son. He was buried in the Gould Mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx.^[1]