George Goldthwaite
b. 21 August 1836, d. 31 October 1892
- Father: George Thomas Goldthwaite b. 10 December 1809, d. 16 March 1879
- Mother: Olivia Price Wallach b. 19 February 1810, d. 13 July 1878
- George Goldthwaite was born on 21 August 1836 in Alabama.
- George Thomas Goldthwaite and Olivia Price Wallach appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Montgomery, Alabama, the latter three children of his deceased brother Robert Henry Goldthwaite. Also in the household was Ellen Wallach, probably the unmarried sister of Olivia.. Other members of the household included George Goldthwaite, Anne Goldthwaite, Richard Wallach Goldthwaite, Mary Robbins Goldthwaite, Henry Goldthwaite, Robert Wallach Goldthwaite, Sarah Goldthwaite, George Goldthwaite and Charles Goldthwaite.
- George Thomas Goldthwaite and Olivia Price Wallach appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Montgomery, Alabama. Other members of the household included George Goldthwaite, Anne Goldthwaite, Richard Wallach Goldthwaite, Mary Robbins Goldthwaite, Henry Goldthwaite and Robert Wallach Goldthwaite.
- He was an attorney, according to the 1860 census.
- He married Lucy Virginia Harmon, daughter of Daniel Harmon and Lucy (?), on 25 May 1870 in White Pine County, Nevada.
- George Goldthwaite and Lucy Virginia Harmon appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Shermantown, White Pine County, Nevada.
- He was a lawyer, according to the 1870 census.
- George Goldthwaite and Lucy Virginia Harmon appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, at Fourth Street.
- He was a lawyer, according to the 1880 census.
- The following appeared on 3 May 1884 in the Nevada State Journal: Many old Nevadans will remember Judge George Goldthwaite. He practiced law in White Pine during the flush days, and also afterward lived in Pioche and in Eureka. Goldthwaite married in Hamilton a Miss Harmon. Her given name is forgotten, but she was a sister of Judge F. H. Harmon, who was in Austin and Hamilton in the early days, and who is now Justice of the Peace of Eureka. Mrs. Goldthwaite is by birth an Alabamian, and was once a famous beauty and accomplished conversationalist. After leaving Nevada Judge Goldthwaite went ot the mining town of Silver Reef, in Southern Utah, which place he left in the Fall of 1879 for Leadville, where he became the law partner of Franl Ganahl, now of Wood River. Here is an article from the Chicago Times concering Mr. Goldthwaite and his wife:
Mrs. Goldthwaite, wife of Judge Goldthwaite, a prominent lawyer of the Western coast, a woman who President Buchanan said was the only one he ever loved well enough to marry, and the one whom Alexander H. Stephens spoke as being the most beautiful and accomplished and thoroughly good woman he ever knew and was 'worth her weight in diamonds,' is now living in humble retirement in Leadville, Colorado. She was one of the most celebrated women of her day. Men at fashionable watering places raved over her beauty and varied accomplishments. Once, in 1860, while the Prince of Wales was in St. Louis, he saw this gifted woman, and turning to Lord Lyons, exclaimed, 'Isn't she exquisite!' Her husband is a son of ex-United States Senator George Goldthwaite, Alabama's once noted and mourned son, and is the Criminal Judge of Lake county, Colorado." - George Goldthwaite died on 31 October 1892 at age 56 in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado.
- His wife Lucy Virginia Harmon became a widow at his death.
- He was interred at Evergreen Cemetery, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado.
- Last Edited: 18 Nov 2015