Finley Johnson Shepard

Finley Johnson Shepard and Helen Miller Gould, around 1910
Imaginative sketch by journalist Marguerite Martyn of Shepard being congratulated on his engagement, 1912

Finley Johnson Shepard (October 8, 1867 - August 22, 1942) was an executive at the Missouri Pacific Railroad.[1]

Biography

He was born on October 8, 1867 in Manhattan, New York City. He married Helen Miller Gould, the daughter of Jay Gould.[2][3] He died on August 22, 1942 at Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan, New York City.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "F. J. Shepard Dies, Railroad Official. Husband Of the Late Helen Gould Succumbs Here After Long Illness. Prominent As Financier. Held Many Executive Posts With Railroads And Other Business Enterprises". New York Times. August 23, 1942.
  2. ↑ "Helen Against Revolution". Time magazine. January 25, 1932. Retrieved 2008-07-30.
  3. ↑ "Helen Gould Weds. Her Hudson Home a Floral Garden for Her Marriage to Finley J. Shepard". New York Times. January 23, 1913. Retrieved 2007-06-18. The wedding of Miss Helen Miller Gould and Finley J. Shepard, Eastern representative of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, part of the great railroad system created by Jay Gould, the bride's father, was solemnized yesterday at 12:30 o'clock at Lyndhurst, the magnificent country estate of the bride at Tarrytown-on-the-Hudson.
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