Contributed by james brunelle

When Sylvester Watson Gould was born on February 3, 1839, in Massachusetts, his father, Nathaniel, was 22 and his mother, Rebecca, was 20. He married Hannah Elisabeth Sumner and they had eight children together between 1861 and 1879. He then had one child from another relationship in 1868. He then married Anna Shurtliff (Annie) Biathrow and they had two children together between 1884 and 1886. Sylvester died on July 20, 1913, in Orleans, Massachusetts, at the age of 74.