Editing Harry Golden (section)

==Early life==
Golden was born '''Herschel Goldhirsch''' (or '''Goldenhurst''')<ref name="Onofrio 2000 242">{{cite book 
   |author=Jan Onofrio
   |title=North Carolina Biographical Dictionary 
   |publisher=Somerset Publishers |location=New York |year=2000 
   |page=242}}</ref> in the [[shtetl]] [[Mykulyntsi|Mikulintsy]], [[Austria-Hungary]].<ref name=Answ01>{{cite web
   |url=http://www.answers.com/topic/harry-golden
   |title=Gale Encyclopedia of Biography: Harry Golden
   |website=[[Answers.com]]
 |year=2006}}</ref> His mother Nuchama (nee Klein)
was Romanian and his father Leib was Austrian.<ref>{{cite news 
|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=108yAAAAIBAJ&pg=3003,2919105 
|title=What A Country, America! 
|date=February 5, 1961 
|accessdate=2009-10-23 
|newspaper=The [[The Miami News|Miami News]] 
|author=Harry Golden 
}}{{Dead link|date=July 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

In 1904 Leib Goldhirsch, a former Hebrew teacher, emigrated to [[Winnipeg, Manitoba]], only to move the family to New York City the next year and "became an editor of the [[The Forward|Jewish Daily Forward]]."<ref name=HarryG.WashPost/>

For a time, Harry worked as a newspaper seller on the [[Lower East Side]] and could remember shouting out headlines about the [[Leo Frank]] case about which he later wrote a book.<ref>Golden, Harry ''A Little Girl is Dead'' p. vi</ref> As a teenager, he became interested in [[Georgism]], and later spoke on its behalf.<ref name="Onofrio 2000 242"/>

He became a [[stockbroker]] but lost his job in the 1929 [[Great Depression|stock market crash]]. Convicted of mail [[fraud]] because he had held onto funds entrusted and thereby caused a loss to investors, Golden served four<ref>1929-1933</ref><ref name=GoldenObit.NYT/> years in a Federal prison at [[Atlanta, Georgia]]<ref name=HarryG.WashPost/> and, decades later<ref>December, 1973</ref> President [[Richard M. Nixon]] gave  Golden a full presidential [[pardon]] for the mail fraud conviction.<ref name=HarryG.WashPost>{{cite news
   |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |author=Richard Person  
   |title=Harry Golden Dies
   |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/10/03/harry-golden-dies/9ff989cb-0a8e-44c1-8926-1591ebdd6d0e
   |accessdate=31 January 2017}}</ref>