This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GOOZEN Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/4159 Message Board Post: The vast lumber interests of Kent County and particularly that part included in Solon township have a worthy and honorable representative in the person of W. W. Goozen, who resides in the Cedar Springs community. From the outset of his career he has been identified in one or another way with this industry, and his knowledge thereof makes him an authority on all matters connected with lumber, timber and their allied interests. He has also engaged in other occupations, but the lumber business has held out attractions for him chiefly and this has been his main occupation. Mr. Goozen was born on a farm in Solon Township, Kent County, near the village of Solon Center, where he received a common school education. Growing up among the woodsmen, he naturally took to that line of work in his youth, and his industry, energy and faithfulness, together with his ability to govern others, soon won him the position of foreman. This office he held for many years, being connected with some o! f the leading and largest dealers in this line in Kent County, but his knowledge of his business gives him a reputation that is not confined to the county of Kent, but extends to many parts of Michigan. He is familiar with the machinery necessary to the handling of logs in large quantities, a knowledge that is of great practical value to one in his line of work. Mr. Goozen is a man of reliability and public spirit who connects himself with enterprises for the welfare of his community. He is a property owner in section 18, Solon Township, and has his home at Cedar Springs. As a fraternalist he has passed through the chairs of Cedar Springs Lodge No. 213, F. & A. M., and belongs to Lodge No. 48, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, at Grand Rapids.