Biographies
JAMES GOULDEN
A long identification with the industrial
development of California qualified James Goulden
among the most progressive citizens of the state. In Quebec, Canada, he was
born in 1853, and he died at his home in Sacramento, Cal., May 6, 1909. He was
quite a young man when he settled near Truckee, Nevada county,
Cal., and there eventually he became interested in the lumber trade, with which
he was connected twenty-eight years. In 1895 he took up his residence in
Sacramento, and from that time until his death was chief inspector for the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company. In 1883 Mr. Goulden
married Laura McCullough, a native of Cass county, Ind., who had come with her
parents across the plains with ox-teams to California in 1854. They landed at
Dutch Flat in October that year. Socially Mr. Goulden
affiliated with the Masonic order, in which he had taken high degrees, and with
the Knights of Pythias. In railroad and commercial
circles he was known as a man of much ability and of highest integrity and
efficiency, and when he passed away his removal was regretted as that of one
whose place it would be hard to fill. As a citizen he was public spirited and
helpful to an unusual degree, never withholding his encouragement and support
from any measure which in his opinion promised to benefit any considerable
number of his fellow citizens. Since her husband's death Mrs. Goulden has lived at her home at 1006 G street.
By her first marriage, to Joseph Hilton, who died in Truckee, she had two
children, G. W. Hilton, who is with the Southern Pacific Railroad, and
Henrietta May, now Mrs. Easton, of Truckee, Cal.
Transcribed by Sally Kaleta.
Source: Willis,
William L., History of Sacramento County,
California, Page 942. Historic
Record Company,
© 2006 Sally Kaleta.