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Goodhue, Benjamin

congressman, United States senator, was born Oct. 1, 1748, in Salem, Mass. He represented his native county in the state senate from 1784 to 1789, when he was elected a representative to congress under the new constitution. In 1796 he was elected a senator of the United States. He died July 28, 1814, in Salem, Mass.

GOODHUE, BERTRAM GROSVENOR, architect, author, was born in 1869 in Connecticut. He is an architect of Boston whose border designs and initials for book illustration are of notable excellence. He is the author of Mexican Memories.

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