 Gould also developed significant business interests, being involved with the Great Cobar Copper Mining syndicate and serving as a director of the Electric Light and Power Supply Company, the City Bank of Sydney and the Oriental Timber Corporation.On 12 September 1872, he married Jeanette Jessie Maitland at St Paul's Church of England in West Maitland.Gould was also a citizen soldier, enlisting as a volunteer in the West Maitland company of the New South Wales volunteer forces.