NORTHWESTERN IOWA ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION VOLUME II 1804-1926 C. W. Goltz Among the younger members of the Woodbury county bar who have achieved marked success in the practice of law, specific mention should be made of Carlos W. Goltz, who maintains his offices in the Davidson building. He was born in Taylorsville, Kentucky, on the 28th day of January, 1894, and is a son of Alexander C. and Katherine (Wakefield) Goltz. His father was a native of Russia, though of German parentage. In May, 1875, at the age of fourteen years, he came to the United States with a young cousin, L. C. Mittlesladt, and located in Stillwater, Minnesota, after being in Sioux City and Yankton, Dakota Territory, a short time. His uncles, Louis E. and Gus A. Torinus, had come to this country some time in the '50s and had established a lumber business in Minnesota, founding the St. Croix Lumber Company, with headquarters at Stillwater. They owned a number of mills and extensive timber interests, with a string of yards through Minnesota, Iowa and Dakota Territory. Louis E. torinus became a multimillionaire and was an intimate friend of James J. Hill, Weyerhaeuser and other men of prominence and influence in the western business world. On his arrival here, Alexander C. Goltz went to work for the St. Croix Lumber Company, first in the yards, but later in the mills at Stillwater. Subsequently he spent several years in the woods, so that he became intimately familiar with every phase of the lumber business. Coming out of the woods, he again entered the mills but was afterwards made manager of the yards. His people in Russia possessed property and in the latter part of the '80s he inherited from relatives some money. With this, he engaged in the lumber business in Beaver Creek, Minnesota, later removing to Spencer and Salem in Dakota Territory. He became one of the founders of the town of Laurel, Nebraska, owning eighty acres on which a part of the town was built. In 1918 he founded the State Bank of Lauel, but later sold his banking interests and is now living retired. He was also the founder of the First Bank of Spencer, Dakota Territory, which is still in operation. While on a timber cruising trip through Kentucky, Mr. Goltz met Miss Katherine Wakefield, who was a granddaughter of Matthew Washington Wakefield, whose parents came to the United States prior to the Revolutionary war, settling in Pennsylvania. Later they moved to Kentucky, then part of Virginia, and the great-grandfather of Katherine Wakefield was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. His son, Matthew Washington Wakefield, was a veteran of the War of 1812, and the latter's son, Matthew Washington Wakefield, Jr., grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born on a plantation near Wakefield (so named for his father), in Kentucky, in 1822. Six or seven generations of the Wakefield family have lived in Kentucky. Carlos W. Goltz attended the public schools and then entered the Chattanooga College of Law, where he was graduated, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, in 1917, and was admitted to the bar the same year. He then came to South Dakota, and entered the law school of the University of South Dakota, where he received the same degree in 1918 and was admitted to the bar of that state and of Nebraska. He engaged in the practice of law at Laurel, Nebraska, one year, and in 1919 moved to Sioux City and was admitted to practice in the Iowa state and federal courts, and has since been actively engaged in practice here. In 1920 he was the candidate of the democratic party for district judge, but was defeated by Judge C. C. Hamilton. In 1922 he was appointed judge of the police court, serving one term of two years. Mr. Goltz has been twice married, first, in 1914, at Crown Point, Indiana, to Miss Marie Gilmore, of Sioux City, to which union was born a daughter, Helen Marie. In 1923 Mr. Goltz was married to Miss Grace Nordenson, of Sioux City, and they are the parents of a daughter, Carol Christine. Mr. Goltz is member of the Delta Theta Phi law fraternity and of the Theta Nu Epsilon society. He belongs to Sioux City Lodge, No. 112, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and Woodbury Lodge, No. 98, Knights of Pythias. He is a member of the Sioux City Academy of Science and Letters, the Izaak Walton League of America, the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, the International Penal Institute for the Study of Crime, the Woodbury County Bar Association, the Iowa State Bar Association, the American Bar Association and International Law Association. Mr. Goltz in his practice of law in Sioux City has won and retains the respect and good will of all who know him. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/