This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE: I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it. Typed by Lora Radiches: Surnames in this biography: Golden, Hedges, Reeves, Shipman, Smith, Prewitt, Essex WALTER GOLDEN. The City of Columbus contains a number of men who with few early advantages have made their way laboriously to positions of prominence in various lines of activity. In this class is Walter Golden, president of the Golden Iron Foundry Company, Inc., who has been identified with this line of business since the age of fifteen years, when he assumed a man’s responsibilities. His career has been typical of the energetic sons of the Hoosier State who have requested no assistance, but have desired merely the opportunity of working out their own destinies through the application of their native and acquired abilities, enterprise, perseverance and ability. Mr. Golden was born at Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana, July 21, 1881, and is a son of Andrew J. and Sarah C. (Hedges) Golden. Barney Golden, the great-grandfather of Walter Golden, was born in Virginia, and about the year 1838 came to Indiana, settling on an undeveloped property in Clark County, where he developed a productive farm and established a comfortable home, and for years was engaged in agricultural operations, although the latter part of his career was devoted to mercantile interests. George Golden, his son, and the grandfather of Walter Golden, was born in Indiana, and grew up on the Clark County homestead. In his youth he learned the trade of locksmith and subsequently became a merchant at Jeffersonville, where he did a large business in selling supplies and equipment to the great horde of hopeful emigrants who were making the long, dangerous trip by covered wagon to the promised land of California during the “gold rush” of 1849 and 1850. He continued to be a substantial businessman of Jeffersonville until his death. Andrew J. Golden, the father of Walter Golden, was born, reared and educated in Clark County, and during the war between the states served as a soldier of the Union army in an Indiana volunteer infantry regiment. For forty years he was a foundryman at Jeffersonville and other points and became well known in that industry, as well as a public-spirited citizen of integrity. He married Miss Sarah C. Hedges, a native of Iowa, and a daughter of a veteran of the Mexican war, and they became the parents of nine children. Walter Golden attended the public schools of Clark County until he was fifteen years of age, at which time he secured employment with the American Car & Foundry Company. Four years later he moved to Columbus, where he became an employee of the Reeves Foundry and remained with that industry until 1914, when he became the organizer of the Columbus Foundry Company. This concern continued in operation until 1924, when it was dissolved and Mr. Golden became one of the organizers and president of the Golden Foundry Company, Inc., his present official associates being Charles Shipman, of Indianapolis, vice president; and S. E. Smith, of Columbus, secretary and treasurer. The plant of this concern is thoroughly equipped to do all kinds of gray iron casting, of any size, and is capable of handling any contract no matter how large the proportions. The plant covers six acres of land, employs 105 people on an average, and makes castings for manufacturers all over the United States, although its principal territory is in the Midwest states. Mr. Golden is known as one of the leading businessmen of his part of the state and is active in civic affairs, being a member of the Chamber of Commerce and of the board of directors of the Kiwanis Club. During the World war his plant was active in producing war materials and Mr. Golden did much to aid in the success of the numerous drives of all kinds, to which he was a liberal contributor. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Knight Templar, a member of St. John’s Blue Lodge at Columbus and of Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and also belongs to the Improved Order of Red Men. Mr. Golden married Miss Ethel Viola Prewitt, of Columbus, and they have one daughter: Loraine, who is the wife of Louis Essex, of Columbus.