Charles Theodore Gould was born Oct 16, 1889 in Litchfield, Minnesota, the son of Edmund and Anna Gould. He moved to Bemidji with his parents about 1900. He attended and played football for the Bemidji High School team. He was elected captain of the football team for 1909.
He was bookkeeper for Shavitch Bros of Bemidji at the time of WWI registration in 1918. Charles Gould served in World War I and was in France in 1918. He worked for Schneider Bros of St. Paul in 1920. He was a bookkeeper for Schneider Bros in 1922 in Bemidji.
Charles T. Gould and Larry Phelps, clerks in the Palace Meat and Grocery store, purchased the interests of B. F. Anderson and took over management on Feb. 1, 1945. Gould had worked for the Palace as bookkeeper for the previous 23 years.
Charles T. Gould married Margaret Catherine “Kathleen” Gannon in Beltrami County on Oct 2, 1945. Kathleen Gannon was a school teacher in Bemidji. Charles T. Gould died Feb 25, 1968 at Chula Vista, California, the home of his sister Mrs. Beatrice McCormick, and is buried at Pine Grove Cemetery in Cass Lake. His wife, the former Kathleen Gannon, preceded him in death in 1955.