Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Goold, Charles H July 16, 1816 - 
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Author: Biographical Encyclopedia of IL

Goold, Charles H., Banker, was born in Churchville, Moore county, New York, 
July 16th, 1816, being the son of Henry L. Goold, a clothier. His early 
education was obtained mainly in the common schools of his neighborhood. He 
quitted them, however, when quite young, to engage as a clerk in the dry-goods 
business in Genesee county, New York, remaining in this capacity until the 
year 1841. He then took a stock of goods successively to Louisiana; to 
Hannibal, Missouri; to Rock Island, Illinois; and Flint, Michigan; making 
sales at each place and then moving on to other sections. These ventures, 
mainly, were in the interests of other persons who employed him, and their 
result was generally satisfactory. His early career proved him to possess 
business talent of no common order, and the experience which daily he gained 
in the discharge of weighty responsibilities placed upon him by his employers 
rendered his subsequent and self-conducted mercantile career one of profit and 
honor. In 1845 he moved to Lemont, Illinois, and entered the service of 
contractors engaged in constructing the Illinois & Michigan Canal, and in 
November of the same year went to Morris, remaining in the same connection 
until that great public improvement was completed. In 1846 he was married to 
Laura A. Baker, of Genesee county, New York. In the following year he entered 
mercantile business in Morris, in company with John P. Chapin, of Chicago, and 
erected the first warehouse and the first store of any size in that town, and 
bought the first grain which was ever shipped from it. For a time he served as 
Postmaster of Morris. After continuing the grain business for four years with 
much success, he sold out his interest and was led by circumstances into a 
regular land and real estate business, in which he has engaged ever since. 
There are probably few men in Illinois who have conveyed more land than he 
has. He has become one of the most prominent insurance men of the State, 
having been the first to issue a policy in the town of Morris. He has been, 
ever since its organization, a stockholder and officer in the Grundy County 
National Bank, and in 1871 became its President, retaining that position at 
present. He is one of the School Trustees of Morris, and President of the 
Morris Bridge Company. There are no enterprises for the improvement of that 
place or its county which have not received his hearty co-operation and 
support. He has acquired an ample fortune by industry alone. His prosperity is 
the result, not of any adventitious aid, but of business enterprise conducted 
with skill and care. He is a man who has carried his business activity into 
public life, and has by his wise counsel and his practical support done much 
to improve the material prosperity of the place of his residence. He is 
generally respected for his capacity as a merchant and banker, and for those 
social qualities which always lend a charm to his presence in the affairs of 
private life.

Additional Comments:
Biographical Encyclopaedia of Illinois of the Nineteenth Century, 
Philadelphia: Galaxy Publishing Company, 1875

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