goelets

Updated: May 17, 2025

Thus do the crimes of one generation become transformed into the glories of another! The stock of the Chemical Bank, quoted at a fabulous sum, so to speak, is still held by a small, compact group in which the Goelets are conspicuous. From the frauds of this bank the Goelets reaped large profits which systematically were invested in New York City real estate.

Myers Gustavus - History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I: Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times

"Or you might run over to the Goelets', and borrow their baby's perambulator," continued that segment of the Spanish Inquisition. If ever an irritating, aggravating, crazing, exasperating, provoking fretting enraging, "I dare you," was uttered, it was in Leonore's manner as she said this. Peter looked about hopelessly.

Paul Leicester Ford - The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him