El
Dorado County
Biographies
EMMET DANIEL GOLDEN
Emmet
D. Golden, who is engaged in the grocery business in Placerville, is the last
surviving representative of one of El Dorado county’s
earliest pioneer families, his father having settled here seventy-seven years
ago. He was born on a farm in this
county, on the 25th of August, 1865, a son of Daniel and Julia
(Mahoney) Golden, who were born, reared and married in the east. In 1853 the father, leaving his wife in
Boston, Massachusetts, came to California by way of the isthmus
of Panama, direct to El Dorado County, where he engaged in mining. Three years later he was joined here by his
wife, who also had come by the isthmus route.
The father was accidentally drowned in one of the early floods and
subsequently his widow became the wife of John Markle, a brother of a former
president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
Mr. Markle died in 1894 and his widow passed away in 1899.
Emmet
D. Golden was educated in the public schools of El Dorado County and then
turned his attention to the cattle business, in which his father had been
engaged at the time of his death. In
this he was joined by his brother Oliver and they continued the business together
until the death of Oliver. Mr. Golden
took over his brother’s interest in the business, which he carried on until
1908, when he sold his cattle and ranges.
During the following seven years he was connected with lumber mills and
then joined the General Electric Company.
Later he went to the Western States Power Company, with which he was
identified for fourteen years, or until it was taken over by the Pacific Gas
and Electric Company. Mr. Golden then
engaged in the grocery business, buying the pioneer store of Placerville, in
which town he had been residing for many years.
He is still conducting that business, in which he has been very
successful, due to his careful attention to the details of his business and his
square dealing.
In
1887 Mr. Golden was united in marriage to Miss May Alta Rasmussen, who died in
1898, and for his second wife he chose Miss Alice A. Bolger, a native of
Virginia City, Nevada. Mr. Golden
supports the Democratic Party as he does every laudable enterprise or movement
looking to the betterment or improvement of the community. He is a member of the Loyal Order of
Moose. Hunting and fishing are his
favorite forms of outdoor recreation and he usually returns from such trips
with tangible evidence of his skill.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 3, Pages 74-77. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.
Golden
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