GOEGLEIN, William John

Wickenburg (AZ) Sun Friday, January 13, 1961, p 5 Funeral services for William J Goeglein were conducted in the Wickenburg Chapel at 11 o'clock Monday morning with the Rev James B Wilson, Presbyterian minister, officiating. Burial was in the Mountain View Cemetery in Prescott, where the parents of the deceased are buried, with the Rev Don Creamer, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of that city, conducting graveside rites. Mr Goeglein, believed to be the oldest man in the United States to hold a license as an assayer, died at 4:45pm Friday of last week in the Echo Hill Nursing Home following a stroke. He was 86 years old. Mr Goeglein was born in Fort Wayne, Ind., August 13, 1874. When he was only 2 1/2 years old, his parents migrated to Howardsville, Colo., where the family lived in a log cabin and the father operated a mine. The latter part of that trip across country was made by wagon train and then by pack mules. Mr Goeglein later lived in Durango, Colo., where he became an assayer and chemist. He worked first at his profession in the Cripple Creek, Colo., area and in 1905 went to Humboldt, Ariz. He later returned to the Cripple Creek area where he was associated in mining with E A Colburn, Jr, who now resides in Wickenburg. In 1913 Mr Goeglein moved to Globe where he worked as an assayer and chemist until 1921. He then went to Los Angeles where he was in the automobile business until 1934. From 1934 until 1942 Mr Goeglein worked at the old Congress Mine where he was again associated with Mr Colburn. During the war he served as a guard at the Claiborne Fight Academy west of town. After the war he was associated with the Wickenburg Ore Market until it closed in 1951. He had lived in Wickenburg since 1938. On January 1 he and Mrs Goeglein observed their 60th wedding anniversary. Surviving are the widow, Mrs Myrtle Goeglein; two sons, M L of Palos Verdes Estates, Calif., and Mel V of Albuquerque, NM; two sisters, Mrs Margaret Conrad of Phoenix and Mrs Leonora Pugner of Reno, Nev; one brother, Walter C Goeglein of Flagstaff; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.