Daniel W. Gould

Daniel W. Gould, farmer, section 8, Highland Township, was born July 13, 1843, in the State of New York. His parents went when he was six months old to Stark Co., Ohio, and four years later removed to Calhoun Co., Mich. His father, Rev. Joseph Gould, was for a long period of years a minister in the Baptist Church. After growing old in the exercise of his parochial efforts, he retired, and at the time of his death was an inmate of the family of his son, James Gould, at Kalamazoo. He died in 1876, aged 86 years. Abigail Gould, the mother of Daniel W., was born in New England and was of English descent. She died in Athens Township, Calhoun Co., Mich., April 2, 1861, aged 65 years. Mr. Gould is the youngest of four children born to his parents, and he was under parental control and attended school until the age of 18 years.

He entered the army of the Union during the first year of the Civil War, enlisting July 28, 1861, in the 44th Ill. Vol. Inf., enrolling in Co. H. The regiment was commanded by Ciolonel Noblesdoffs, and was assigned to the Army of the West. Mr. Gould was in six different campaigns and 36 battles, among them Pea Ridge, Farmington, Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Resaca and others of equal importance. He was present at the seige of Murfreesboro, Jonesboro and Franklin. At the last he received a gunshot wound in the left side, which inflicted permanent injury. He escaped capture by the rebels and was mustered out of service at Galveston, Texas, in September, 1865, after a period of active military service including four years and two months. He returned after his discharge, to Athens Township, Mich., and became a farmer, pursuing that profession there two years. He set out for Osceola County in September, 1867, and entered the papers securing a homestead claim of 160 acres of land in Highland, - the second settler who came into the township, - and made a permanent location. The stilness and quiet of the unbroken forest pervaded the entire surroundings, and he set himself vigorously to the task of converting the wilderness into a home. He has since sold 80 acres, and has about seven-eights of the remainder under improvements. Mr. Gould is a Republican and true to the principles for which he braved the fate of war. He has been Highway Commissioner and Treasurer of his township.

His marriage to Jane Teal occurred July 3, 1865, in Battle Creek, and they are the parents of three children, - Edith, Frank and Jennie. Mrs. Gould was born in September, 1845, in Jefferson Co., N.Y. Her father has been deceased some years. Her mother resides in this township. Mrs. Gould came to Michigan in 1861. She and her husband belong to the Baptist Church, of which society Mr. Gould is Clerk.

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