George J. Goldcamp, 811 South Fourth Street, doesn’t remember John Campbell, only the name, but he does remember that the schools closed for his funeral and that holiday from school is something no boy forgets.
At that time, the Goldcamp family, Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Goldcamp, lived on South Front Street at the other end of the city from the Campbell home. As George recalls, neither he nor his brothers, including Robert S. Goldcamp, of Fourth and Vernon, were allowed to visit the north side. That part of the city was known as “Irish Town,” and the Goldcamp boys attended the German school. There was always an exchange of rocks when the boys from one end of town met the boys from the other side of Center Street.
George and Robert Goldcamp engaged in the furniture business on Second near Park Avenue in 1902. Their business grew and grew until they moved to Fourth Street opposite the courthouse in the four-story building.
In 1924 they erected the big building on Third and Vernon, now occupied by the Penney Co. They retired from the furniture business shortly before Pearl Harbor.
Photo courtesy of Midweek Pictorial 1918-07-18: Vol 7 Iss 20
More newspaper articles found about the Goldcamps.
- Ironton Journal Dec. 4, 1867 – Frank Buhr to J. S. Goldcamp, parts of city lots 44 and 45, $400.
- Ironton Register July 30, 1868 – Mr. John F. Goldcamp has opened a fine Feedstore on Railroad St. Everything in his line will be found at the lowest prices at his establishment.
- Ironton Register Mar. 14, 1872 – John F. Goldcamp & Sons are manufacturing Improved Mineral Water.
- Ironton Register May 30, 1872 – Heavy Damages. – The case of Martha Justice v. J. T. Davis et al. was concluded last Saturday, and the verdict was given to the plaintiff for $6,500. Martha Justice is the woman whose husband was killed on the Iron Railroad (the cars running over him) last winter while he was under the influence of liquor. The deceased, it was alleged, procured his liquor at the Buckeye House, which was kept by Peter Wild and Charles Morgenthaler, the other parties defendants. Mr. Davis owned the premises but had nothing to do with the running of the hotel. The suit was for $10,000 in damages. The jury was John Ballard, Salmon Wilson, William Sharkey, H. Partlow, John F. Howell, John Goldcamp, Hugh Dunne, James Waldeck, J. E. Jones, David McLaughlin, B. Butterfield, and Chester Burch. A new trial is to be had.
- Ironton Register Feb. 10, 1887 – The Front-st. flour mill building is being overhauled to receive Goldcamp’s roller process machinery. Everything in the building will be taken out. Some of the machinery is due here on the 15th. A brick engine house 25×53 feet is being erected at the rear of the old structure.
- Ironton Register Apr. 14, 1887 – “How’s the new flour mill, Frank Goldcamp?” “O, it’s moving along slow. We won’t get started before about the first of May.”
- Ironton Register Aug. 24, 1905 – New Grain Elevator. – W. L. Schweickart, the contractor, will build the new grain elevator for the Goldcamp Milling Company. It will have a capacity of 20,000 bushels, and Mr. Schweickart informs us he will commence work on the new structure immediately, which will contain 150,000 feet of lumber. —He also has several other new buildings under consideration, which will soon be made known to the public.
- 1914 picture – Second and Park Ave. Agents for Hoosier Kitchen Cabinets.
- 1914 picture – The Goldcamp Bros. & Co. Note our new Fourth and Center Streets location.
- Ironton Tribune Feb. 13, 1930 – Plans for New Office Building Started By United Fuel Gas Co. – To Occupy Site Next to Goldcamp Furniture Store.
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