page_title: Draketown, Georgia
section_title: William Franklin Golden
hierarchical_section_title: Draketown, Georgia / History / Pioneers / Physicians / William Franklin Golden
caption_attribution_description: English: Dr. William Franklin Goldin, his wife Sarah Suzanne Hutcheson, and two of his children.
context_page_description: Draketown is an unincorporated community in Haralson County, Georgia, United States. It was first settled by the Mound Builders. Around the 15th or 16th century, the Cherokee Indians and Creek Indians replaced the Mound Builders and began their own society. Mostly the Cherokee Indians settled In the Draketown area.
context_section_description: William Franklin Golden, son of Seaborn Golden and Sara Whitton, was a medical doctor and surgeon who practiced in Haralson, Polk, Paulding, and Carroll counties for forty years. He studied at Tallapoosa High School, and graduated Atlanta Medical College in 1877. In 1888, he took graduate classes in surgery at the London School of Medicine
  Golden served several terms in both the Georgia House of Representatives and the State Senate. His wife was Sarah Susanne Hutcheston, daughter of Dr. Robert Berry Hutcheson.
  
  Golden was a contractor in the building of the Haralson County Courthouse, now the Buchanan Library in Buchanan, Georgia. He was also president of the Temple Banking Company.
caption: Dr. William Franklin Goldin and his family
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