Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Goldberg, Maj Max 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

MAJ. MAX GOLDBERG, who has been engaged in business in Joliet since 1888, is 
one of the prominent members of the Uniform Rank, K. of P., and at this 
writing holds the office of major of the Third Illinois Regiment, commanding 
the first battalion. During the long period of his connection with this 
fraternity he has been promoted by successive steps from one position of 
prominence to another, and has taken an active part in lodge and encampment 
work. He is also identified with other fraternal organizations, chiefly the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the blue lodge and chapter of Masonry. In 
Koenigsburg, Germany, Mr. Goldberg was born April 15, 1857, being next to the 
youngest of four children, of whom two sisters are in Chicago and a brother, 
Herman, is a soldier in the German army, stationed at Koenigsburg. His father, 
Herman, who was the son of Samuel Goldberg, a member of an old family of 
Koenigsburg, learned the business of a horse dealer under his father, who 
bought horses for the government, and he remained in his native burg until he 
died. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Margaret Leyen, was a daughter of 
Louis Leyen, was born in Koenigsburg and spent her entire life there. Leaving 
home in 1873, Mr. Goldberg went to Liverpool, where he took passage for New 
York. Arriving in this country he proceeded to Chicago, where he at once 
engaged in business. In 1883 he began to buy car load lots of iron, shipping 
the same to various rolling mills, and in this way he continued until the time 
of his location in Joliet. His first location in this city was at No. 113 
Bluff street, and here he has since had his headquarters. Securing his 
material from the Fox Solid Pressed Steel Company, and many other concerns in 
the United States, he ships the same to eastern mills, doing a large business 
in this line. His plant is equipped with every improvement, including large 
shears, four to six inches in diameter, and twenty-six inches in length, 
operated by electricity. Besides this business in scrap iron, since 1894 he 
has carried on a coal and coke business, and in 1899 took his son-in-law into 
partnership, under the firm name of Goldberg & Reubens, their office and yards 
being on Clinton street, opposite the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railroad. The 
handsome residence of Mr. Goldberg is at No. 152 Comstock street. He was 
married in Chicago to Miss Jennie Weinberg, who was born in Detroit, Mich. 
They are the parents of three children, of whom the daughter is the wife of L. 
M. Reubens. The older son, Louis, who is a graduate of the Joliet high school, 
is now a student in St. John's Military College at Delafield, Wis. The younger 
son, Mortimer, is with his father.

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Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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