Fulton County Sketches
MR. EMILE VAN GOIDTSNOVEN was born in Belgium Nov. 2, 1839, where he resided until his twenty-first year and attended the schools in that country. In 1858 he entered the university of Lourain for the purpose of taking a medical course in that celebrated institution, but before finishing his studies he came to the United States with Hon. L. de Give, the Belgian consul, as chancellor, and located in Atlanta, where he engaged in mercantile business and in which he continued for about twenty years. He then attended the Southern Medical college, from which he was graduated in 1883, established an office in the city, and has since practiced his profession with eminent success. Dr. Van Goidtsnoven is a member of the State Medical society and of the Atlanta Society of Medicine, of the latter of which he has been treasurer. He also had the chair of diseases of children and was treasurer of the Atlanta polyclinic. He was first married in 1868 to Kate, daughter of Thomas Kelly, of Fairburn, Ga. His first wife having died without issue, in 1888 he was married to Jessie A. Phillips, of Brooklyn, N. Y. They have two children, William L. E. and Marie Roberta. Dr. Goidtsnoven is city physician of the second ward of Atlanta, examining physician for branch No. 20, Catholic Knights of America, and is surgeon for the Atlanta division of the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia (now Southern) Railroad company. He is still connected with the Belgian consulate as chancellor. The father of Dr. Van Goidtsnoven was Adolphus Joseph Goidtsnoven, a native of Belgium, where he lived and died. Dr. Van Goidtsnoven is a devout member of the Roman Catholic church and a highly esteemed gentleman.
Source: Memoirs of Georgia, Containing Historical Accounts of the State’s Civil, Military, Industrial and Professional Interests and Personal Sketches of Many of Its People, Volume I, published by The Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, GA., 1895; Pg. 950
