Background
David Goldbaum was born in 1858 in Mexico. His father was a Jewish Pole who emigrated to Mexico as a pioneer.
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David Goldbaum
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Education
He graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado, where he studied Mineralogy.
Career
He served as the Mayor of Ensenada, Baja California from 1927 to 1930 and surveyed much of Baja California. Goldbaum was kidnapped with several schoolchildren as a child and released after his father paid a ransom. Shortly after, he was sent to be educated in San Francisco, California in the United States.
Goldbaum served as the surveyor of much of Baja California, including Ensenada, where he settled.
He also served as the Director of the Museo Regional in Ensanada. He then served as Mayor from 1927 to 1930.
He explored much of Baja California, where he owned mining interests. He wrote The Charles Pacheco colony, an essay of fourteen pages, in 1917.
A year later, in 1918, he wrote, Indian tribes of northern district, Lower California, Mexico., an essay of twenty-three pages.
That same year, he wrote Towns and villages of Lower California. in 1918. Goldbaum co-wrote Towns of Baja California: A 1918 Report. lieutenant was rediscovered by Ellen C. Barrett in 1954 and translated into English by William O. Hendricks of the Sherman Foundation.
In 1930, shortly before his death, he wrote Lower California, Its History, Resources, Possibilities and Opportunities: Fishing, Hunting and Points of Interest.
He died in 1930.
The crassinella goldbaumi, a mollusk mostly found in Baja California, was named in his honor.
