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Goodall, Albert Gallatin – Goodnow, Frank Johnson

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Goodall, Albert Gallatin

engraver, was born Aug. 31, 1826, in Montgomery, Ala. He attained prominence as a bank-note engraver of New York city. where he died Feb. 19, 1887.

Goodall, Charles

shipping merchant, legislator, was born Dec. 20, 1824, in England. He served in the California state legislature. He is part owner of the Pacific Steam Whaling Co.; two salmon canneries in Alaska, and the Arctic Oil works; and his firm now own the Oregon Coal and Navigation Co.

Goode, George Brown

ichthyologist, author, was born Feb. 13, 1851, in New Albany, Ind. He was an ichthyologist in the government service; and the author of Catalogue of the Fishes of the Bermudas; Annual Resources of the United States; Game Fishes of the United States; Beginnings of Natural History in America; Britons, Saxons, and Virginians; American Fishes, a popular treatise; Fisheries and Fishing Industries of the United States; and Oceanic Ichthyology. He died in 1896.

Goode, George W

lawyer, was born March 13, 1868, in Manchester, England.

He received his education in the episcopal academy of his native city; and at Willamette university of Salem, Ore. In 1892 he was admitted to the bar in Oregon; and has attained success as an eminent lawyer of Moscow, Idaho, where he has filled various public positions of honor.

Goode, John

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born May 27, 1829, in Bedford county, Va. He was elected a member of the legislature of Virginia in 1851, and again in 1866. He was elected to the confederate congress in 1861; reelected in 1863, and served in that position until the close of the war. He was a member of the electoral college in 1852, and again in 1856. He was elected a representative from Virginia to the fortyfourth, forty-fifth and forty-sixth gresses as a democrat. con-

Goode, Patrick G

congressman, was born in Virginia. He was elected a representative in congress from Ohio from 1837 to 1843.

Goode, Samuel

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1799 to 1801.

Goode, Samuel Watkins

lawyer, capitalist, orator, was born June 11, 1847, in Stewart county, Ga. He was elected first president of the Atlanta real estate board; and has attained note as an orator.

Goode, William O

state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 16, 1798, in Inglewood, Va. He was elected for several terms a member of the state legislature; and in 1829 was a member of the state reform convention of Virginia. In 1832 he was again elected to the state legislature; and again elected to the legislature in 1838. He was elected a representative in congress from Virginia in 1841, serving until 1843. He was subsequently again elected to the legislature, and was speaker of the house of delegates for several sessions. In 1853 he was again elected a representative in congress from Virginia, and was regularly re-elected until the thirty-fifth congress. He died July 3, 1859, near Boydtown, Va.

Goodell, Henry Hill

soldier, educator, college president, author, was born May 20, 1839, in Constantinople. He taught the modern languages at Williston seminary of Easthampton, Mass., in 1864-67, and afterward in the Massachusetts Agricultural college at Amherst, of which institution he was chosen president in 1866. He is the author of a Biographical Record of the Class of Sixty-two; and of a Compilation of Historic Fiction.

Goodell, Lyman Payson

soldier, business man, was born Sept. 7, 1848, in Chaplin, Conn. He received his education at the Appleton academy of New Ipswich, N. H.; and at Phillips academy of Andover, Mass. At the age of fifteen years he entered the union army, serving with the army of the James in the tenth corps, and has been past post commander department of Texas G. A. R. In 1893 he was elected vice-president of the State Republican league, and has taken a prominent part in the public affairs of Texas, where he is engaged in the real estate and insurance business at Fort Worth.

Goodell, William

educator, physician, author, was born Oct. 17, 1829, in Malta. He was a Philadelphia physician, medical professor in the university of Pennsylvania, and author of Lessons in Gynæcology.

Goodenow, Irving G

journalist.

He is the editor and owner of The Journal of White Pigeon, Mich., a popular republican newspaper which was established in 1876. He has filled several public positions of honor; and takes an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state.

Goodenow, John Elliot

clergyman, legislator, was born March 23, 1812, in Springfield, Vt. He is a pioneer of Maquoketa, Iowa, and is called the Father of Maquoketa. He served for two years as a member of the first state legislature.

Goodenow, John M

lawyer, jurist, author, was born in 1782 in Massachusetts.

He was an Ohio jurist and a representative in congress from that state in 1821- 1831. He was the author of American Jurisprudence in Contrast with the Doctrine of English Law. He died in 1838, in Steubenville, Ohio.

Goodenow, Robert

financier, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1800 in Farmington, N. H. He was county attorney from 1828 to 1834, and in 1841. Having taken up his residence in Maine, he was a representative in congress from that state from 1851 to 1853; and in 1857 was appointed bank commissioner for the state.

Goodenow, Rufus K

soldier, state legislator, congressman, was born April 24, 1790, in Henniker, N. H. He entered the army in 1812 as captain in the thirtythird regiment of United States infantry, and served in that capacity until 1815.

Upon the organization of a state government he was appointed clerk of the courts of Oxford county, and removed to Paris, and held this office sixteen years. He was a member of the Maine legislature; a presidential elector in 1840; and represented his district in the thirty-first congress. He died March 24, 1863, in Paris, Ky.

Goodfellow, Edward

surveyor, journalist, was born Feb. 23, 1828, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1882 he became editor of the publications of the survey, and in that capacity has edited the annual reports for the years from 1882 till 1886.

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.

Goodin, John R

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 14, 1836, in Tiffin, Ohio. In 1859 he removed to Humboldt, Kas.; and in 1866 was elected a representative in the state legislature. In 1867 he was elected judge of the seventh judicial district for the term of four years; was re-elected in 1871; and resigned in 1875, to take his seat as a representative from Kansas to the fortyfourth congress..

Gooding, a. A

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 20, 1833, in Cannon county, Tenn. He was sergeant in company B, second regiment Tennessee infantry, and was a prisoner of war on Belle Isle, Va., for five months. For eight years he was United States clerk of the circuit court; and for four years was judge of the county court. He is a successful lawyer of Jamestown, Tenn.; and was postmaster of his city during 1889-93.

Goodknight, James Lincoln

clergyman, college president, was born Aug. 24, 1846, in Allen county, Ky. Since 1895 he has been president of the West Virginia university at Morgantown.

Goodland, John

lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 10, 1831, in Taunton, England.

In 1849 he emigrated to the United States and lived in the state of New York until 1854; and since that time he has resided in Wisconsin. During 1854-64 he lived in Sharon; then entered the service of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad in Chicago. In 1867 he went to Appleton as their local agent, and resigned in 1874. He then studied law, and in 1888 was elected district attorney of Outagamie county, Wis. In 1891 he was elected circuit judge of the tenth circuit, and received the re-election in 1897.

Goodloe, William C

diplomat. He was a resident of Kentucky; and in 1878 was appointed United States minister to Belgium.

Goodman, John

physician, author, was born July 22, 1837, in Frankfort, Ky.

In 1860 he became demonstrator of anatomy in the Kentucky School of Medicine.

Goodman, Warren Watson

lawyer, was born June 29, 1869, in Roanoke county, Va. He received his education at the Allegheny institute, and graduated from the Bethel Military academy, with the rank of captain. He subsequently graduated in law from the Washington and Lee university; and is now a leading lawyer of Deer Lodge, Mont., and its distinguished city attorney.

Goodnight, Isaac Herschel

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 31, 1849, in Allen county, Ky. He represented Simpson county in the general assembly in 1877-78; was a member of the fifty-first, fifty-second and fifty-third congresses. He is now judge of the seventh circuit court district of Kentucky.

Goodno, William Colby

was born in Kenosha, Wis. He was the originator of the Pennsylvania Homœopathic Hospital for Children.

Goodnow, Frank Johnson

educator, author, was born in 1859 in Long Island. He has been professor of administrative law in Columbia university since 1884; and is the author of Comparative Administrative Law; and Municipal Home Rule.

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