Golding, Charles

REED, CARROLL, KOERTH, CARPENTER

Posted By: BCGS
Date: 12/20/2009 at 18:57:20

General business and financial interests of Frederika find a progressive and worthy representative in Charles Golding, who for the past twenty years has been one of the leading merchants of the community and since 1902 has been sole proprietor of the Bank of Frederika. He has made his name a synonym for progress and advancement in the town and has contributed materially to its commercial and financial growth. He was born in Jackson county, this state, June 23, 1869, and is a son of J.W. Golding, a native of England. The father came to the United States when he was a young man and in 1849 went to California in search of gold. He located a mine which turned out to be very productive, amassing a considerable fortune in that state. He returned to Iowa and located at Bellevue, where he accumulated one thousand eight hundred and thirty six acres of land, from the timber on which he supplied the steamers on the Mississippi river with wood. He was twice married, wedding first in Jackson county a Miss Reed, by whom he has one son, J.W. Golding, now living at Bellevue. After the death of his first wife Mr. Golding married Miss Elizabeth Carroll, a native of New York, and they became the parents of two children: a daughter, who died in infancy; and Charles, the subject of this review. The father passed away in Jackson county in 1875 and the mother died at Sumner, Iowa, in June, 1913.

At the age of five Charles Golding moved with his parents to Sumner, Iowa, and there his childhood was spent, his preliminary education being acquired in the schools of that city. He afterward attended Upper Iowa University at Fayette. In 1893 he established himself in the general merchandise business in Frederika, forming a partnership with a Mr. Koerth under the name of Golding & Koerth. Three years later Mr. Golding purchased his partner's interests and since that time has conducted the business alone. He has founded a gratifying degree of success upon long experience in this line of work and upon the honorable and straightforward commercial methods to which he has steadily adhered. His business has increased in volume and importance year by year and his patronage is today extensive and representative. In 1902 Mr. Golding extended the field of his business interests by organizing the Bank of Frederika, of which he has since been the owner. He does a general banking business and has made his institution one of the most solid and reliable in this part of the country.

At Sumner, Iowa, Mr. Golding married Miss Hattie Carpenter, a pioneer of Sumner. Mr. and Mrs. Golding have three children, Nada, Loela and Donald. Mr. Golding gives his political allegiance to the republican party and during the twenty years of his residence in Frederika has taken a prominent part in public affairs, serving for sixteen years as recorder of the incorporated village of Frederika, for four years as township clerk and since 1896 as postmaster. He is interested in everything that pertains to the development and growth of the village, lending the weight of his influence to many movements for the general good. He is progressive, active and public-spirited and he holds the esteem and respect of all with whom official, business or social relations have brought him into contact.

History of Bremer County, Iowa Vol. II 1914