Marcus Goldbaum

Marcus Goldbaum
Born 1835
Prussia
Died 1886
Arizona Territory
Religion Judaism
Spouse(s) Sara Goldbaum
Children 7
Relatives David Goldbaum (nephew)

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]

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

  1. 1 2 3 "The Marcus Goldbaum Family of Tucson". Jewish Museum of the American West. Retrieved July 1, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Harriet Rochlin, Fred Rochlin, Pioneer Jews: A New Life in the Far West, Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000, p. 33
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 W. Lane Rogers, Scalped, Arizona Range News, January 21, 2009
  4. 1 2 Helene Schwartz Kenvin, This Land of Liberty: A History of America's Jews, Springfield, New Jersey: Behrman House, 1986 , p. 96
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