San Diego County Biographies
 
WILLIAM GOLDBAUM

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is one of the leading merchants of Oceanside. He was born in Grabow, Prussia, 
July 12, 1855. His father, L. Goldbaum, is a commission merchant at that place. 
His mother, Rebecca (Marks) Goldbaum, was born in Prussia. They were the parents 
of seven children, six of whom are living; four of them now reside in this 
vicinity�two in Oceanside and two in San Luis Rey. Mr. Goldbaum was educated at 
a college in Ostrowo, and when through with college he became clerk in a 
wholesale shawl and silk store, where he remained five years. In 1877 he came to 
San Luis Rey, California, where he remained for seven years, and clerked for 
several different stores. He was clerk for his brother for four years, but in 
1887 he bought his brother out and continued the store at San Luis Rey, and also 
opened another general merchandise store in Oceanside, both of which he is still 
running, and numbers among his customers the best people of the city, and enjoys 
a good business, his trade extending several miles out of the city. He resides 
at Oceanside. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias, to the Odd Fellows. and also 
to the Encampment. His brother Albert has charge of the store at San Luis Rey, 
and his brother, Max is with him in the store at Oceanside. Their stock fills a 
double store. They are good business men and have been quite successful.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  273