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Goodwin, Ichabod – Goodyear, Frank Henry

Goodwin, Ichabod

governor, was born Oct. 10, 1796, in North Berwick, N.

H. He was governor of New Hampshire from 1860 to 1861.

Goodwin, Isaac

author, was born June 28, 1786, in Plymouth, Mass. He was a writer of Worcester, Mass., and the father of Mrs. Jane Goodwin Austin. He was the author of History of the Town of Stirling; The Town Officer; and The New England Sheriff. He died Sept. 16, 1832, in Worcester, Mass.

Goodwin, John Abbott

author, was born May 21, 1824, in Stirling, Mass.

He was a Lowell writer who published The Pilgrim Fathers Neither Puritans nor Persecutors; and The Pilgrim Republic, an historical review of the Plymouth colony. He died in 1884.

Goodwin, Mrs. Maud Wilder

author, was born in 1856 in New York. She is an historical novelist of New York city, and the author of The Colonial Cavalier, or Southern Life Before the Revolution; The Head of a Hundred; White Aprons, an historical romance; and Dolly Madison, a biography.

Goodwin, Myron Henry

educator, writer, was born Oct. 23, 1860, in Baldwin, Maine. In 1882 he graduated from Bowdoin college. In 1884 he was admitted to the bar at Denver, Col., but has not practiced. He has taught Greek and Latin in New York, Wisconsin and Massachusetts, and has contributed both prose and verse to the leading newspapers and magazines of America.

Goodwin, Nathaniel

genealogist, author, was born March 5, 1782, in Hartford, Conn. He was a Hartford genealogist and probate judge, and the author of Genealogical Notes of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts. He died May 28, 1855, in Hartford, Conn.

Goodwin, Nathaniel C

comedian, was born July 25, 1857, in Boston, Mass.

Among the plays in which he has been seen to advantage on the American stage are: Hobbies; Warranted; Ourselves; Major Wellington De Boots; Mascot; Pinafore; Patience; Big Pony, and others.

Goodwin, Peterson

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1803 to 1818. He died in November, 1818.

GOODWIN, WILLIAM FREDERICK, soldier, author, was born Sept. 27, 1823, in Limington, Maine. He was the author of a History of the Constitution of New Hampshire of 1776, 1784, 1792; and Records of Narragansett Township. He died March 12, 1872, in Concord, N. H.

Goodwin, William Watson

educator, author, was born May 9, 1831, in Concord, Mass. He is an eminent Greek scholar, Eliot professor of Greek at Harvard university from 1860. He has published Syntax of Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb; and A Greek Grammar.

Goodyear, Charles

inventor, was born Dec. 29, 1800, in New Haven, Conn.

He produced the vulcanized or ebonized india-rubber, which immortalized his name, and he lived long enough to see his material applied to nearly five hundred uses. He died July 1, 1860, in New York city.

Goodyear, Charles

lawyer, jurist, banker, congressman, was born April 26, 1805, in Cobbeskill, N. Y. He was a member of the state assembly in 1839. In 1841 he was appointed first judge of Schoharie county; and was a representative from New York in the twenty-ninth congress.

In 1864 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-ninth congress.

Goodyear, Frank Henry

financier, was born March 17, 1849, in Groton, N. Y. He settled in Buffalo in the coal and lumber trade, and has since built eleven saw mills in woodland regions of Pennsylvania. Through other methods, his coal trade has also grown to large proportions.