HARALSON COUNTY, GA - BIOS  W.F. Goldin

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

W F. GOLDIN, physician and surgeon, Draketown,
Haralson Co. Ga., son of Seaborn and Sarah Goldin,
was born in what is now Haralson county, near where
he now lives, Feb. 6,1851. His father was born in
what is now Walton county, Ga., in 18l7, and his
mother was born in the same locality. His parents
Moved from Walton to Paulding county in 1844, and
settled on a tract of land, which he subsequently
converted into a fruit and nursery farm. Dr.
Goldin's educational advantages during his boyhood
and youth were of the most limited and indifferent
sort; but after he attained manhood he attended the
Tallapoosa, Ga., high school, where he acquired a
very good education. He then read medicine, and
under a temporary license practiced awhile. In 1875
he entered Atlanta Medical college, from which lie
was graduated in 1877, and located in Draketown.

In 1888 Dr. Goldin went to London, England, and took
a special course in surgery in the London medical
colleges, and has since built up a large and very
remunerative practice. He stands at the head of his
profession in that part of the state, is very
popular, and is steadily growing in reputation. In
addition to his practice Dr. Goldin conducts a
general merchandise store and is engaged in
sawmilling. He not only excels in his profession,
but is regarded as possessing superior business and
financiering ability. In 1890 he was elected to
represent the Thirty-eighth senatorial district in
the General assembly, and established a reputation
As a wise and able legislator. Dr. Goldin was
married in 1878 to Miss Sarah Louisiana, daughter of
Dr. R. B. and Sarah Hutcheson, and to them six
children have been born: Grover Cleveland, Sarah
Effie, Robert Battey, John Maddox and Arlina and
Cora Glenn, the two last deceased. Dr. Goldin is a
master Mason, and himself and family are very
prominent members of the Missionary Baptist church.