John Stanton Gould (1810 - August 8, 1874

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) was a 19th-century Quaker scientist and philanthropist of the United States.

Biography

Gould was a member of the Society of Friends. He received a thorough education, especially in physical science, and was well known as an industrious student and a popular essayist and lecturer on scientific subjects. He had a farm in

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, and took an active part in agricultural improvement. For several years, he was president of the

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and did much to advance its interests. He was also an earnest temperance advocate. Although in earlier years he was a Whig, and a member of the assembly from that party in 1846 (subsequently acting generally with the Republicans), he held his temperance principles above party allegiance, and was recognized as a

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ist. He was much interested in the subject of prison reform and was for many years one of the directors and executive officers of the New York Prison Association.

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