Prescott W. Gould was born in Newton Upper Falls, Mass., on February 23, 1894. He was prepared at the Newton High School and then entered the Institute in 1913 and attended until 1955. He studied in the Course in Mechanical Engineering and was a member of the Phi Beta Epsilon fraternity, and of the Freshman Football and Tug-of-War Teams. He enlisted in Company C, 1st Cavalry, and went to the Mexican border. His unit was later reorganized as the 102nd Machine Gun Battalion, with which Gould went abroad in September, 1917. He was promoted to Corporal in August, 1917, and to sergeant in April, 1918. He died at a Base Hospital in France on May 16, 1918 and is now buried in St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, France.