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==Golden family==
[[Statement Regarding El Nathan Home L&L 1951-7|Statement Regarding El Nathan Home]] by M.W. Martin William Golden for [[Light and Liberty]] 1951-7
[https://www.newspapers.com/image/137535929 Rochester Democrat & Chronicle] 1989-7-28: "Martin Golden, founded firm": by Mary E. McCrank:
"Martin W. Golden, a Rochester native and founder of a Buffalo-area company, died Sunday in Manatee County, Fla., after a long illness. He was 74. Mr. Golden had a winter home in Manatee County, but spent most of his time in western New York at his Grand Island home. In 1972 — two years after moving from Chili to Grand Island — Mr. Golden founded Elmar Industries, which manufactures machines to fill containers with food, petrochemicals and pharmaceuticals, said his son, Martin W. Golden Jr., of San Jose, Calif.
A 1932 graduate of Madison High School, Mr. Golden went to California “to find the pot of gold” and attended the University of California at Berkeley, his son said. For about a decade — starting in 1938 — Mr. Golden worked for
Eastman Kodak Co. in color processing. In 1948, he did industrial engineering work at the Pfaudler Co., where he worked until 1970. “He really started from his brains. He wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth,” his son
said. Mr. Golden also attended night classes at Rochester Institute of Technology while he worked in Rochester.
Mr. Golden oversaw the expansion of his company and — in addition to the Depew headquarters — added manufacturing sites in Santa Clara, Calif, and Dundee, Scotland. The company also has sales offices in Belgium, Germany, Florida, Kentucky and Illinois. “For a person who should have been conservative, he was quite farsighted and said, ‘Let’s go for it,’ ” he said. Mr. Golden, who designed the machines, was very consumer oriented and quickened the process to where 1,000 cans per minute were filled with a certain product, such as soup, baby food or medicine, his son said. Last month, Martin W. Golden Jr. became chairman and CEO of the company, and Mr. Golden assumed the role of chairman emeritus.
While in Rochester, Mr. Golden was a layman at his church, the Congress Avenue Bible Chapel. While he lived in Buffalo, he belonged to the Amherst Bible Chapel. “He was a very devout Christian, and he did a lot of church work,” said his sister, Lillian Tomalty, of Brighton. He enjoyed boating and fishing while he stayed in Florida and was a member of various industrial organizations, Golden said. Mr. Golden also is survived by his wife, Eunice, and two other sisters — Clara Anderson, of Rochester, and Eleanor White of Kissimmee, Fla."
* Martin William Golden, Sr. '''+1951+''' (b. 1915 Roch., NY- d. 1989 Naples, FL), son of Edward Thomas Golden (b. 1882 Roch., NY - d. 1950 Penfield, Monroe, NY) & Augusta Therisa Schlegel Golden (1887-1963 Roch., NY). In 1918, Edward was employed as an engineer with the board of education at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Wayland_Parker Francis W. Parker School].
* Eunice Golden (b. 1914 NY)
** Martin Golden, Jr. (b. 1942 Roch., NY)
==Greer family==
