Goodwin, Mrs. Lavina Stella – Gordon, James
Goodwin, Mrs. Lavina Stella
educator, author, was born Feb. 4, 1833, in St. Johnsbury, Vt. Since 1869 she has been associate editor of The Watchman of Boston, Mass. She is the author of three juvenile volumes, entitled Little Folks' Own; The Little Helper; and The Mysterious Miner.
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.
Goodwyn, Albert Taylor
soldier, farmer, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 17, 1842, in Robinson Springs, Ala. He was educated at South Carolina college and the university of Virginia, from which latter institution of learning he was graduated in 1867; and is a farimer. He was a member of the state house of representatives in 1886-87, and a member of the state senate from 1892 to 1896, and was state inspector of convicts from 1874 to 1880. He was in the confederate army from the beginning of the war to the end; participating in the bombardment of Fort Sumter in April, 1861, and was mustered out at the close of the war as captain of a company of sharpshooters. He took his seat in the fifty-fourth congress April 22, 1896.
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.
Goodyear, William Henry
educator, author, was born in 1846 in Connecticut. He is an art educator of New York city, and the author of Roman and Mediæval Art; Renaissance and Modern Art; History of Art; The Grammar of the Lotus; and Ancient and Modern History.
Googins, George
physician, surgeon, was born in October, 1822, in Hancock, Maine. In 1847 he graduated from the Maine Medical college of Brunswick.
For several years he has been United States examining surgeon; and is one of the oldest and most reliable physicians in eastern Maine, and for nearly half a century has practiced his profession at Milbridge. In 1871-72 he served as a member of the Maine state legislature, and has been active in politics all his life, and a prominent member of the whig and republican parties.
Googins, George Edgar
lawyer, author, was born Feb. 25, 1863, in Milbridge, Maine. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of his native city, and in 1882 graduated from the East Maine Conference seminary of Bucksport, and in 1886 from the Colby university. During 1892-95 he was superintendent of public schools of Milbridge, Maine, where he is engaged in the practice of law. He has written numerous stories and poems for the press, and is the author of a novel entitled Strange Adventures of a Summer Tourist.
Gookin, Charles
soldier, statesman. He attained the rank of colonel, and was deputy-governor of Pennsylvania under William Penn during 1709-17.
Gookin, Daniel
author, was born in 1612 in England. For the last thirty years of his life he was superintendent of the Indians in Massachusetts. His writings include Historical Collections of the Indians in New England; and Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England. He died March 19, 1687, in Cambridge, Mass.
Gookins, Samuel Barnes
journalist, legislator, jurist, was born May 30, 1809, in Rupert, Conn. Just twenty years after he went to Vincennes to aid in establishing the Vincennes Gazette, he went to the same place to hold his first term as judge of the circuit court. He represented Vigo county in the Indiana legislature.
Gordon, Adoniram Judson
clergyman, author, was born April 19, 1836, in New Hampton, N. H. He was a baptist clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Clarendon church from 1869 until his death; and the author of Grace and Glory; In Christ; Ministry of Healing; The Ministry of the Spirit; The Life that Now Is and That to Come; The Holy Spirit in Missions; and Ecce Venit. He died in 1895.
Gordon, Anna Adams
author, was born July 21, 1853, in Boston, Mass. She was the private secretary of Frances E.
Willard from 1877 until her death. She prepared the song books of the Loyal Temperance Legions and also the songs for Woman's temperance work and the white ribbon hymnal. She is the author of Questions Answered; The White Ribbon Birthday Book; and other pamphlets and booklets.
Gordon, Archibald D
author, was born in 1848 in Ireland. He was a dramatic critic and playwright of New York city, and the author of The Ugly Duckling; Is Marriage a Failure?; and That Girl From Mexico. He died in 1895.
Gordon, Armistead Churchill
lawyer, poet, was born in 1855 in Albemarle county, Va. He is the author of a volume of dialect poems entitled Befo' de War. He is an able lawyer of Staunton, Va., of which city he has been mayor.
Gordon, Charles Benjamin William
clergyman, journalist, author, was born Nov. 1, 1861, in Colerain, N. C.
He has attained success as a pastor of the baptist church of Petersburg, Va., and since 1886 he has been editor of The National Pilot. He is the founder of the American and The National Orphan Home; and has been president of the National Orphan and Educational association since 1886.
Gordon, Clarence
author, was born April 28, 1835, in New York city.
He is a writer of Newburg, N. Y. His writings, intended for juvenile reading, include Christmas at Under Tor; Our Fresh and Salt Tutors; Two Lives in One; and Boarding-School Days.
Gordon, Edward Clifford
clergyman, college president, was born Sept. 1, 1842, in Richmond, Va. He is president of the Westminster college of Fulton, Mo.
Gordon, George Angier
clergyman, author, was born in 1853 in Scotland. He is a prominent congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Old South church from 1884, and the author of The Christ of To-Day; The Witness to Immortality in Literature, Philosophy and Life; and Immortality and the New Theodicy.
Gordon, George Henry
lawyer, soldier, author, was born July 19, 1823, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a lawyer of Boston who served as a brigadier-general in the federal army during the civil war, and was the author of History of the Second Massachusetts Infantry; The Campaign of the Army of Virginia under General Pope; War Diary of Events in the War of the Great Rebellion; and Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain. He died Aug. 30, 1886, in Framingham, Mass.
Gordon, George Phineas
printer, manufacturer, inventor, was born April 21, 1810, in Salem, N. H. His fame arose from his invention of the Gordon job press. The Gordon Press works, having a factory at Rahway, N. J., of which he was proprietor, produced an immense number of these machines, which found their way into nearly every job office in the United States. He died Jan. 27, 1878, in Norfolk, Va.
Gordon, J. Wright
governor, was born in 1807 in Virginia. He was lieutenant-governor of Michigan during the administration of Governor Woodbridge; and upon the latter's resignation, became governor. He died in December, 1853.
Gordon, James
state senator, congressman. He was for seven years a member of the state senate of New York; and twelve years in the state assembly.
He was a representative in congress from New York from 1791 to 1795.