Born Nussan ben Itzhak Goldkind in Plotsk, Russia (now Plock, Poland). Son of Itzhak & Yetta Hirsch Goldkind of Plotsk. Brother of Kayla Shifra Goldkind (wife of Meyer Loverouschka) and Shmuel Hirsch Goldkind of Plotsk, Yaacov (Jankiel) Goldkind of Novgorod, and Avraham Goldkind of New York City. Came with his brother Avraham to the U.S. about 1870, settling first at New York, then moving alone to the South soon thereafter. Made a living as a peddler and sometime gambler for several years before settling at Scopena, Bossier Parish, Louisiana, where he operated the Scopena Plantation store. About 1879 he moved to nearby Shreveport, establishing a dry goods store at Common and Milam Streets.
Goldkind was killed in his store over a card game by one Gus Logan who was initially sentenced to death for the murder. His sentence was later commuted to life in prison but by 1896 he was free (Logan later ran a restaurant located only a block away from the former Goldkind store; he died about 1920). The commutation prompted Goldkind's executor, Louis Liebman, to put the murderer's name on Goldkind's gravestone, which faced out from the cemetery onto Baker Street, for all passersby to see.
It was said for many years that Goldkind's ghost could be seen in his former store and the sightings became local legend in Shreveport; the building was demolished in 1986. The Goldkind monument is cast in "white bronze" (a zinc alloy) manufactured by the Coleman White Bronze Company of New Orleans, a short-lived subsidiary of the Monumental Bronze Company of Bridgeport, CT.
Goldkind was killed in his store over a card game by one Gus Logan who was initially sentenced to death for the murder. His sentence was later commuted to life in prison but by 1896 he was free (Logan later ran a restaurant located only a block away from the former Goldkind store; he died about 1920). The commutation prompted Goldkind's executor, Louis Liebman, to put the murderer's name on Goldkind's gravestone, which faced out from the cemetery onto Baker Street, for all passersby to see.
It was said for many years that Goldkind's ghost could be seen in his former store and the sightings became local legend in Shreveport; the building was demolished in 1986. The Goldkind monument is cast in "white bronze" (a zinc alloy) manufactured by the Coleman White Bronze Company of New Orleans, a short-lived subsidiary of the Monumental Bronze Company of Bridgeport, CT.
Born Nussan ben Itzhak Goldkind in Plotsk, Russia (now Plock, Poland). Son of Itzhak & Yetta Hirsch Goldkind of Plotsk. Brother of Kayla Shifra Goldkind (wife of Meyer Loverouschka) and Shmuel Hirsch Goldkind of Plotsk, Yaacov (Jankiel) Goldkind of Novgorod, and Avraham Goldkind of New York City. Came with his brother Avraham to the U.S. about 1870, settling first at New York, then moving alone to the South soon thereafter. Made a living as a peddler and sometime gambler for several years before settling at Scopena, Bossier Parish, Louisiana, where he operated the Scopena Plantation store. About 1879 he moved to nearby Shreveport, establishing a dry goods store at Common and Milam Streets.
Goldkind was killed in his store over a card game by one Gus Logan who was initially sentenced to death for the murder. His sentence was later commuted to life in prison but by 1896 he was free (Logan later ran a restaurant located only a block away from the former Goldkind store; he died about 1920). The commutation prompted Goldkind's executor, Louis Liebman, to put the murderer's name on Goldkind's gravestone, which faced out from the cemetery onto Baker Street, for all passersby to see.
It was said for many years that Goldkind's ghost could be seen in his former store and the sightings became local legend in Shreveport; the building was demolished in 1986. The Goldkind monument is cast in "white bronze" (a zinc alloy) manufactured by the Coleman White Bronze Company of New Orleans, a short-lived subsidiary of the Monumental Bronze Company of Bridgeport, CT.
Goldkind was killed in his store over a card game by one Gus Logan who was initially sentenced to death for the murder. His sentence was later commuted to life in prison but by 1896 he was free (Logan later ran a restaurant located only a block away from the former Goldkind store; he died about 1920). The commutation prompted Goldkind's executor, Louis Liebman, to put the murderer's name on Goldkind's gravestone, which faced out from the cemetery onto Baker Street, for all passersby to see.
It was said for many years that Goldkind's ghost could be seen in his former store and the sightings became local legend in Shreveport; the building was demolished in 1986. The Goldkind monument is cast in "white bronze" (a zinc alloy) manufactured by the Coleman White Bronze Company of New Orleans, a short-lived subsidiary of the Monumental Bronze Company of Bridgeport, CT.
Bio by: Eric J. Brock
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