Untitled Surnames: Gundrum, Clauer, Fitzsimmons, Conroy, Hilery, Kraemer, Sander, Wetter, Roethe, Damm, Stippich, Bast, Moody

From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin, publ. 1901 - page 97-98

GEORGE H. GOLDMANN, postmaster at Annaton, Clifton township, Grant county, is one of the leading men of the community in which he has made his home for so many years, and in which he has been instrumental in promoting the material welfare of the people. Our subject was born in Linden, Iowa Co., Wis., Nov. 14, 1853, son of Freimund and Helena (GUNDRUM) GOLDMANN.

Freidmund GOLDMANN was born in Prussia, Germany, and came to Iowa county, Wis., while a single man. He married, in Linden, in 1851, and bought a soldier's land warrant, locating 480 acres of land, at eighty-five cents per acre. This land he improved, and made his home there until his death, which occurred in January, 1892; his wife still survives, residing on the home farm. To them ten children were born: Ellen, now Mrs. CLAUER, of Beetown; George H.; Agnes, now Mrs. FITZSIMMONS, of Montfort, Wis.; Mary, Mrs. J. CONROY, now deceased; Lydia, Mrs. HILERY, of Nebraska; Charlie, on the home farm; Louis, at home; Lena; Minnie; Emil, who died in infancy.

Our subject was reared and educated in Linden township, coming to Annaton Feb. 8,1875, and learning the trade of wheelwright in the shop of William KRAEMER, in a building erected by Mr. KRAEMER in 1871. The business consisted of the manufacture of wagons, buggies and other vehicles, all of the work being done by hand, and this establishment Mr. GOLDMANN still carries on, in connection with farming and conducting the postoffice. For a few years Mr. GOLDMANN successfully operated a mercantile establishment, but disposed of that enterprise, owning to pressure of other duties.

On Sept. 23, 1878, Mr. GOLDMAN was married at Annaton to Miss Emma KRAEMER, born in Philadelphia, Penn., a daughter of William KRAEMER, a native of Germany, who came to Philadelphia, and thence in 1856 to Liberty township, Grant county, where he purchased forty acres of land, on which he erected a shop and embarked in a wagon-making business. Later he removed his plant to Annaton, built a shop, and also conducted a general store. Here he died in 1889, and his widow still survives, residing at Lancaster. To himself and wife were born eight children: Emma, Mrs. GOLDMANN; Kate, Mrs. WETTER, of Lancaster; Philopena, Mrs. Henry SANDER, of Platteville; Lizzie, Mrs. ROETHE, who died in Clifton township April 19, 1900; Mary, Mrs. George DAMM, of Lancaster, who with her husband met with a frightful accident from an explosion of gasoline on Sept. 1, 1899, from which she died the following day, and he thirty-six hours from the time of the accident; Minnie, Mrs. Louis STIPPICH, of Wichita, Kans.; Louise, Mrs. Herman BAST, of Lancaster; and Caroline, Mrs. KRAMER, of Lancaster.

The family of Mr. and Mrs. GOLDMANN is an interesting one; William L., Ernest F., Amelia J., Herbert H., George A., and Frieda H., all at home.

Mr. GOLDMANN is a stanch Republican, active in the affairs of his party, and has served most acceptably as postmaster for eleven years, having been appointed May 25, 1889, succeeding S. F. MOODY, of Wingville. The office is quite an important one, having been established about 1865, and a considerable amount of business is transacted through it. In addition to his other offices and duties Mr. GOLDMANN was justice of the peace, having held that office eight years, and has been a notary public a number of years since. Few men in Grant county are more widely known, and certainly none is more highly esteemed, than Mr. GOLDMANN.




This biography generously submitted by Carol Holmbeck