Ancestry of
Benjamin Apthorp Gould

Founder of The Astronomical Journal

Benjamin Apthorp Gould Jr.

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Apthorp Gould 
  • Mother:
  • Lucretia Dana Goddard   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Sep 1824 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Nov 1896 
  • Death Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Notes: 

  • Astronomer

    Founder of The Astronomical Journal

• Marriages for Benjamin Apthorp Gould Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Apthorp Quincy
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1861

• Sources for Benjamin Apthorp Gould Jr.

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/23/2022).
  • ² Johnson, Rossiter and John Howard Brown, editors, The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Vol. 04, Ericsson - Gwin, Boston: The Biographical Society (1904), no page numbers.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 494.
  • ⁴ Wikipedia, "Benjamin Apthorp Gould", (accessed 05/23/2022).
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "The Astronomical Journal", (accessed 05/23/2022).
  • ⁶ Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 2, New York: D. Appleton and Company (1887), 693.