Helen Day Miller


Helen Day Miller was the wife of the financier Jay Gould.

Biography

Early life

Helen Day Miller was born on September 20, 1838, in Manhattan, New York, the fourth child of Daniel Stratton Miller and Ann Kip Bailey. Her father, a prosperous merchant, was forty, and her mother Ann was twenty-nine. Her parents lived in The prestigious Murray Hill neighborhood in Manhattan and were prominent members of New York society.

Marriage

Helen met her future husband Jay Gould through her father David. They married on January 22, 1863, she was twenty-four and he was twenty-six years old. Together they had six children:
Miller died on January 13, 1889 in Manhattan, New York, and was later interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, New York, in the Gould family mausoleum.