Minnie Gould
 Descended from a Line of Heroes & Revolutionaries

 By Erika Quesenbery
 Curator Paw Paw Museum Port Deposit, MD

 
    Minnie Gould, of Cecil County, was the daughter of John Robert & Amelia Kidd Gould. (Amelia Kidd Gould was descended from the Port Deposit Kidd’s, merchants who sent their son James Kidd to the Civil War as 1st Lieutenant in Snow’s Battery B Union Light Artillery, Maryland Volunteers). Minnie Gould married Dr. Edward Engler Gibbons in 1898. John Robert Gould, Minnie’s father was Secretary of the Mexican Veterans for a number of years. In addition John Robert Gould was on the man-of-war that landed at San Francisco in 1849 and helped to set-up type for the first American newspaper printed in California. Her great-grandmother, also of Cecil County, was the sister of Robert Leech, a Revolutionary War soldier