Robert Simonton Gould

1826 - 1904  (77 years)

• Name	Robert Simonton Gould
  Born	16 Dec 1826	Iredell County, North Carolina
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Jun 1900
  	Teacher
  Residence	Jun 1900
  	2607 University Avenue - Austin, Travis Co., TX
  1900 Census	9 Jun 1900
  	Ward 6 - Austin, Travis Co., TX, ED 91, sheet 8B
  Died	30 Jun 1904	Austin, Travis County, Texas
  Alt. Death	30 Jul 1904	Austin, Travis County, Texas
  Person ID	I17069	DNA Family 1 Genealogies
  Last Modified	4 May 2006

  
  

  Father	Rev. Daniel Gould,   b. 12 Nov 1789, Nottingham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire ,   d. 29 Apr 1834, Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina  (Age 44 years)
  Mother	Zilpha M. Simonton,   b. 16 Dec 1799, Iredell County, North Carolina ,   d. 16 Apr 1873, Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama  (Age 73 years)
  Married	Abt Sep 1823	Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina
  Alt. Marriage	25 Sep 1823	Douglas, Worcester County, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F6450	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Serena Barnes,   b. 1832,   d. Unknown
  Married	1855
  Children	1. Son Gould,   b. Texas ,   d. Bef 1900
  Last Modified	4 May 2006
  Family ID	F6452	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 16 Dec 1826 - Iredell County, North Carolina Died - 30 Jun 1904 - Austin, Travis County, Texas Alt. Death - 30 Jul 1904 - Austin, Travis County, Texas  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  GOULD, ROBERT SIMONTON (1826-1904). Robert Simonton Gould, Confederate Army officer, lawyer, judge, and law professor, son of Daniel and Zilpha (Simonton) Gould, was born in Iredell County, North Carolina, on December 16, 1826. About 1833 he moved with his widowed mother to Alabama, where he graduated from the University of Alabama in 1844. He taught mathematics for three years and studied law. He obtained a license to practice and opened an office at Macon, Mississippi, in 1849. He moved to Texas in 1850 and resumed his law practice in Centerville. In 1853 he was elected district attorney for the Thirteenth District. In 1855 he married Serena Barnes. In 1861 he was a member of the Secession Convention and was elected judge of the Thirteenth District, but he resigned his office to raise a battalion for the Confederate Army. With the addition of another battalion to his group he became colonel of a regiment. He was wounded and his horse was shot out from under him at Jenkins Ferry. He returned to Centerville, was reelected district judge in 1866, but in 1867 was removed from office as an "impediment to Reconstruction." Gould moved to Galveston, Texas, in 1870. He was appointed to the Texas Supreme Court in 1874 and was elected to the position in 1876. Governor Oran M. Roberts appointed him chief justice in 1881, but Gould was not reelected to the post in 1882. In 1883 he and Roberts were named by the UT board of regents to be the first professors of law at the University of Texas. Gould resigned his professorship in the spring of 1904 and died in Austin on June 30 of that year. BIBLIOGRAPHY: James D. Lynch, The Bench and Bar of Texas (St. Louis, 1885). Homer S. Thrall, People's Illustrated Almanac: Texas Handbook and Immigrants Guide for 1880 (St. Louis: Thompson, 1880). __________ According to the 1900 census, he was married, but his wife was not listed with the family. His father was born in New Hampshire and his mother in North Carolina.