Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2013, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889 [page 441-442] WILLIAM P. GOLDIE, Editor of the Cherokean-Democrat, Cherokee, Iowa, is a native of Canada, born in 1856. He is a son of RICHARD and CATHERINE (PIRIE) GOLDIE. His grandfather on his mother's side was an old newspaper man, as is also his father, and at the early age of eight years he entered his father's printing office. He obtained a limited education in the common schools of his native place, and on completing his trade he removed to Sioux City, Iowa. He obtained positions on various Cherokee papers, and for three years was editor and co-proprietor of the Cherokee Free Press. After that time he was absent form the city for a period of two years. In December, 1878, he started his paper, the Cherokean-Democrat, and has met with a gratifying degree of success. Mr. GOLDIE is a self-educated man, acquiring much of his information by the careful perusal of books, and from close observation. He was united in marriage in September, 1879, to Miss LULU M. LEWIS, a daughter of R. A. LEWIS, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this work. ===========================================================================