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John H. Gould
A 19th-century New England writer and compiler, he is best remembered for preserving local church history and for a detailed travel account of a Mediterranean and Holy Land voyage. His surviving works have the feel of firsthand record-keeping, rooted in places, dates, and lived experience.
1 Audiobook
Ocean Steamships A popular account of their construction, development, management and appliances
by French Ensor Chadwick, John H. Gould, Ridgely Hunt, J. D. Jerrold (James Douglas Jerrold) Kelley, William H. (William Henry) Rideing, A. E. (Albert Edward) Seaton
About the author
Available catalog and digitized-book records identify John H. Gould as John Hood Gould (1824–1895). He is associated most clearly with Topsfield, Massachusetts, and with the publication of Early Records of the Church in Topsfield (1888), a work built around preserving historical church documents for later readers.
He also wrote Grand Winter Excursion to the Mediterranean, the Orient, and the Holy Land (1895), a substantial travel book tied to a transatlantic cruise itinerary that included southern Europe, North Africa, and the eastern Mediterranean. Taken together, the books suggest a writer interested both in careful historical preservation and in expansive late-19th-century travel.
Reliable biographical detail beyond those points is limited in the sources I could confirm here, so it is safest to see him as a regional historian and travel writer whose work survives mainly through library catalogs and public-domain scans rather than through extensive modern biographical coverage.