HARALSON COUNTY, GA - BIOS  William Gaulding

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Source: "MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA", Historical and Biographical Sketches,  1896.

WILLIAM GAULDING, physician, Waco, Haralson Co.,
Ga., son of John and Jane Gaulding, was born in
Oglethorpe county, Ga., April 15, 1833. His parents
subsequently removed to Troup county, where he was
reared and received the very indifferent education
he started in life with. Having more fully educated
himself and studied medicine, he attended Georgia
Medical college, Augusta, from which he graduated in
1856, and immediately aftenward located at
Haralsonville, Troup county. After remaining there
twenty years, and establishing a very large and
remunerative practice, he removed, in 1876, to
Carroll county, where he remained -until December,
1893, adding to his reputation as one of the most
skillful and successful physicians in that part of
the state. At the last-named date he moved to Waco,
where he is still actively practicing his
profession, Enjoying the unreserved confidence of a
large and still increasing constituency. He was
postmaster a number of years at Haralsonville,
conducted a drug store at Carrollton and Waco, and
engaged extensively in farming during his
professional life, and has accumulated a quite large
estate. Dr. Gaulding was married May 6, 1856, to
Miss Amanda R., daughter of R. W. and Elizabeth
Brown, a union which has been blessed with eleven
children: Aldora, Lizzie Love, Henry Valentine,
Benjamin Holmes, deceased, Lizzie Thomas, .1. W.,
Odessa, Seaborn May, Exar, deceased, Clyde Speer,
and Luella, deceased. Dr. Gaulding was originally an
"old-line" Whig, and voted against secession, but is
now affiliated with the populists. He is a master
Mason, and himself and wife are prominent and
influential members of the Methodist church.