Tulare County Biographies

G. R. GOLDMAN

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        In all that constitutes true manhood and good citizenship G. R. Goldman, 
one of the successful and enterprising ranchers of Tulare county, is a sterling 
example and none stands higher than he in the esteem and confidence of the 
community honored by his citizenship. Mr. Goldman was born in Falls City, 
Nebraska, on the 3d day of February, 1879, the son of Jacob and Laura 
(Nicodemus) Goldman. The father followed the occupation of farming in Nebraska 
until 1888, when he came to California and located at Alila (now Earlimart), 
Tulare county.
        G. R. Goldman was reared under the parental roof and attended the public 
schools, after which he took a course at normal school. Subsequently he entered 
the employ of the Port Costa Milling Company, by whom he was employed for 
several years in various capacities. In 1906 he located on the ranch which he 
now occupies and which he owns in partnership with E. W. Nelson, chief of the 
government biological survey at Washington, D. C. The ranch comprises four 
hundred acres of finely situated land, practically all of which is planted to 
vineyard and citrus fruits. The ranch is operated under the name of the 
Nelson-Goldman Orchard Company, of which Mr. Goldman is manager, and they are 
achieving a splendid success here. Many permanent and substantial improvements 
have been made on the place, which is considered one of the finest orchard 
ranches in this vicinity. Mr. Goldman is thoroughly practical in all that he 
does and he is devoting himself indefatigably to the work of the ranch.
        Mr. Goldman was married to Miss Jessie Scoon, who resided in Modesto, 
California, at the time of her marriage, but is a native of the state of 
Illinois. To them have been born three children : George T., Dorothy and Helen. 
Mr. Goldman is a member of the Masonic order, in which he has taken all the 
degrees of the York Rite. He is also a member of the Tulare Farm Bureau and is 
president of the Orosi Foothill Citrus Association and of the Cutler Fruit 
Growers Association.
 
Source:  History of Tulare County and Kings County, California � Kathleen 
Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, Vol. II, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1926., p. 468