History of Monroe County, Wisconsin; Past and Present
published: Chicago:  C.F. Cooper & Co.   1912.

WILLIAM C. GOULD,  prominent among the farmers of Greenfield 
township, resides in section twenty-four, where he is successfully 
engaged in general farming and stock raising.  His birth occurred near 
Watertown, Jefferson county, N.Y., May 12, 1861, the son of Charles 
and Frances (McQuillian) Gould, who were also natives of New York 
state, and who came to Wisconsin in 1867 with their family, and took up 
and homesteaded 80 acres of wild land in section two, Greenfield 
township, which was afterwards sold to Nehemiah Oakley, and the 
family moved to another farm in the southern part of the township where 
they resided for eighteen years, when the father moved to the village of 
Norwalk, and for nine years conducted the Norwalk hotel.  He died there 
in 1899 at the age of sixty-five years; his widow, mother of our subject, 
passed away in September, 1911, at the age of seventy-two years.  
Daniel Gould, a brother of Charles, came to Monroe county, and for a 
time kept a hotel at Tunnel City.  A sister, Lucinda, and aunt of our 
subject, is the wife of Orland Woodard, of Dodgeville, Wis.

William C. Gould is the eldest of a family of eight children, all of whom 
are living except Charles who is deceased; the others are Ella, who 
married Ira Seibold, of Tunnel City;  Adelbert, of Norwalk;  Mattie is the 
wife of Theodore Lotterman, of Crandon, Wis.;  Francis is the wife of 
Vent Wallace, and lives in Ontario, Wis.;  Hurbert and Horace reside in 
Sparta, and Celia is the wife of Adolph Holderman, of Norwalk.

Mr. Gould received his education in the public schools and remained on 
the farm until he was sixteen, when he began for himself and was 
variously employed until he reached the age of twenty-eight years, when 
he rented a farm in Greenfield township and successfully conducted the 
same for some thirteen years.  In 1904 he purchased his present farm of 
eighty acres, which is fitted out with all modern farming equipments and 
presents an up-to-date appearance.  He has remodeled his residence and 
built a large and commodious barn in 1909 and has since added other 
improvements.  Mr. Gould takes an active interest in the affairs of his 
town and county; for the past five years he has been a member of the 
side board; has been clerk of the school district two years, and in social 
circles he is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and the 
Mystic Workers.  On May 25, 1891, he was married to Miss Mary 
McMullen, daughter of Joseph McMullen, of New York State, who 
about fifty years ago came to Tunnel City, but later moved to 
Dodgeville, Wis.

Submitted by:  Linda Pingel