Figure 1.-- Here we have a view of Finley J Shepard (1867-1942) strolling down New York City's fashionanable Fifth Avenue with two of his adopted childrenin her best Easter togs. Fifth Ave was famous for the Easter Prade here society strutted to display their fashionble finery. We do not know much about Mr. Shedpard, other than he was an executive at the the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Rather unusually for the time, we know a great deal about his wife Helen Miller Gould (1868-1938), principally because she was the daughter of the notorious Jay Gould
Here we have a view of Finley J Shepard (1867-1942) strolling down New York City's fashionanable Fifth Avenue with two of his adopted childrenin her best Easter togs. Fifth Ave was famous for the Easter Prade here society strutted to display their fashionble finery. We do not know much about Mr. Shedpard, other than he was an executive at the the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Rather unusually for the time, we know a great deal about his wife Helen Miller Gould (1868-1938), principally because she was the daughter of the notorious Jay Gould who finally began investing in railways. Shepard presumably becuse Gould gained contol of several railroads. Helen could not have been more different. She was determibed to create a very differnt for the family. She not not only began gining away her ineritance to charitavler groups, but also adopting New York City orphan waifs. They adopted three children and had one foster child. We are not sure how her husband viewed this, but she gave away much of her inheritance. She was not only a philantropist, but a staunch critic of Soviet Communism, primarily on religious grounds.
