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Marcus Goldbaum
Prussian-born American pioneer and prospector (1835–1886) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Marcus Goldbaum (1835–1886) was a Prussian-born American pioneer and prospector in the Arizona Territory.
Early life
Marcus Goldbaum was born in 1835 in Prussia.[1][2][3] He immigrated to the United States in the 1850s.[1][3]
Career
Goldbaum lived in Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico and California in the 1860s.[2] In 1869, he moved to Tucson, Arizona.[2] He served as a Justice of the Peace in Wickenburg, Arizona, in 1870.[1][2] He also lived in Florence, Harshaw,[2] Benson and Tombstone.[3] He then settled down in Tucson, where he worked as a butcher.[2] He also worked as a butcher in Phoenix.[4]
Goldbaum was also a prospector in Southern Arizona, including the Whetstone Mountains.[2]
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Personal life and death
Goldbaum was married to Sara Goldbaum.[2][3] They had seven children, four of which were born in Bavaria and three in Arizona.[2]
Goldbaum was killed by Apache Native Americans in the Whetstone Mountains in 1886.[3][4]
References
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