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REV. EDWIN S. GOULD, pastor of the Congregational Church, of Carthage, Missouri, was born February 20, 1844, in New Braintree, Massachusetts. His father, whose name was Rufus, was a wheelwright by trade, and later a singing master by profession, who has been dead for some years. Mr. Edwin F. Gould was educated at Phillips Academy, Massachusetts, and subsequently a student at the theological seminary located at Hartford, Connecticut. He was licensed to preach at Hartford, Connecticut, in the middle year of the seminary course, May 16, 1872, ordained at Providence, Rhode Island, October 1, 1873, and installed as pastor of the Richmond Street Free Congregational Church, where he remained as pastor five years. He was married October 20, 1875, at Providence, Rhode Island, to Miss Phoebe Gladding, a resident and native of Providence. In the year 1877 Rev. Mr. Gould went to his old home, West Brookfield, four miles from Braintree, where he remained as pastor of the church for four and a half years. After repeated invitations from the church and trustees of the Congregational Church at Carthage, Missouri, he became their pastor March 25, 1882, with whom he still labors. Rev. Mr. Gould has had some very flattering calls to some of the best churches of the cities of Providence, Rhode Island, New Haven, Connecticut, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Fargo, Dakota, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Since his pastorate in Carthage, Missouri, the elegant new church has been dedicated, without a cent of debt on the building, and a goodly number have joined the church. The financial condition of the church, as well as the spiritual, is excellent, and the Sunday-school is prosperous and growing. Rev. Mr. Gould is an interesting, popular minister, of more than average ability, and commands the good will and respect of his congregation and other denominations.