San Diego County
Biographies
S.T. GOLDTHWAIT,
who came to San Diego in 1880, under engagement with the California Southern
Railroad, to superintend the building of machine shops and heavy bridges, was
born at Biddeford, Maine, October 12, 1840; his parents were also natives of
Maine. The father of the subject of this sketch was a sea captain, and he also
has one brother who follows the sea as captain. One brother, Everett Goldthwait,
is now mayor of Elkhart, Indiana. At the age of twenty-two years, the subject of
this sketch went to Boston, Massachusetts, and learned the trade of mason and
builder with Nathaniel Adams, a prominent Freemason and Odd Fellow, for whom he
worked fifteen years. He then started independently and under contract work
built the Boston & Lowell Railroad station at Boston, also the Beebe block on
Winthrop square. In 1880, he came to San Diego and was employed three years by
the California Southern Railroad Company. He then began building and constructed
the Youngs, Louis & Schneider blocks, besides do much jobbing for Babcock, Reed
& Pauly. In 1886, he went into the real-estate business in acre and city
property with very flattering success. He now owns an improved ranch of ten
acres at Santa Ana, planted in apricots, oranges, pears and grapes, two small
ranches at Elsinore, thirty acres at Linda Vista, and city property at National
City and San Diego. In 1887, Mr. Goldthwait was appointed superintendent of the
construction of sewers, the Colonel Waring system, and in 1889 was re-appointed
under the new charter. He is a member of the Fremont Subordinate Lodge of Odd
Fellows, and the Massasoit Encampment of Boston, and is a charter member of the
Silver Gate Masonic Lodge of San Diego.
Mr. Goldthwait was married in Boston, June 12, 1871, to Miss Margaret W. Webster
of Unity, Maine, a lineal descendent of Daniel Webster.
An Illustrated History of Southern California: Embracing the Counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower California, from the Earliest Period of Occupancy to the Present Time.... - Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. pp 108-109 Transcribed by Sue Silver