Codice albumGBB-F-003959

Codice inventarioGBB-F-003959-0000

1887, august, New York, USA : The rich heir of celebrated New York multimillionnaire GOULD family Railways magnate FRANK JAY GOULD (1877 - 1956) aged 5, philantropist, howner of a chocolate factory, Casinò and Grand Hotels in South France Riviera. Frank Jay was youngest one of 6 sons of " Robber Baron " and builder of railways JASON JAY GOULD (1836 - 1892) and Helen Day Miller (1838 - 1889). Frank Jay Gould married 3 times in France, the first one from 1901 to 1908 with Helen Margareth Kelly, the couple have 2 twin daughters, after a trial adopted by Frank sister millionnaire HELEN MILER GOULD SHEPARD (1868 - 1938): Helen Marguerite and Dorothy (19041969) (this last , later became the swiss Baroness De Graffenried De Villars from 1925 to 1936,was a promised wife of prince Aage of Denmark Count of Rosenborg in 1938 but dead in war in Foreign Legion in Morocco 1940, Dorothy in 1941 meet Archibald Burn (1867 - 1950) a mexican-scottish and married him in 1944). The 2nd wife of Frank Jay was in 1910 the british dancer and collector of impressionist artwork EDITH KELLY (sister of actress Hetty Kelly, first love of famous actor Charles Chaplin in 1908). The 3th wife of Frank was the american Opera singer Florence La Caze (1895 - 1993), married in 1923 and close friend of celebrated gay french writer and director Jean Cocteau.

Fotografo: Ahrens F.

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