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Goodale, George Lincoln, educator, botanauthor, was born Aug. 3, 1839, in Saeo, Maine. Since 1878 he has been professor of botany at Harvard university from 1878. He is the author of The Wild Flowers of America; Physiological Botany; Concerning a Few Common Plants; and Useful Plants of the Future. Goodale, Greenleaf Austin, soldier, was born in Maine. In 1861 he was private corporal and sergeant in the sixth regiment Maine infantry; and in 1903 attained the ist,

rank of brigadier-general. Goodall, Albert Gallatin, engraver, was born Aug. 31, 1836, in Montgomery, Ala. In 1844 he went to Havana, Cuba, and be-

gan to learn copper-plate engraving. He then became connected with the firm from which was afterward organized the American bank-note company of New York City, of which he was president in 1875-77. He died Feb. 19, 1887, in New York City. 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 company; two salmon canneries in Alaska; and the Arctic oil works; and his firm now own the Oregon coal and navigation company. Goode, George Brown, ichthyologist, author, was born Feb. 13, 1851, in New Albany, Ind. He was an ichthyologist in the government service. He was the author of Catalogue of the Fishes of the Bermudas; Annual Resources 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 Sept. 6, 1896, in M^'ashingt'on, B.C. Goode, John, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was bom 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 a member of the confederate congress in 1861-66. In 187581 he was a representative from Virginia to the forty-fourth, forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses as a democrat. Since 1886 he has practiced law in Washington, D.C. Goode, John Paul, educator, author, was born Nov. 21, 1862, in Stewartville, Minn. In 1889-98 he was professor of natural Sciences at the state normal school of Morehead, Minn. Since 1903 he has been assistant professor of geography at the university of Chicago, 111. He is the author of

Commercial Geography. Goode, Patrick

G.,

congressman, was

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in Virginia. In 1837-43 he was a representative from Ohio to the twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh congresses. He died in Ohio.

Goode, Samuel, congressman. In 1799-1801 he was a representative from Virginia to the sixth congress.

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died in Virginia.

Goode, William Athelstane Meredith, dier, journalist, author,

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was born June

10,

Since 1894 he has been connected with the associated press, which he represented on the flagship New York during the Spanish-American war. He author of With Sampson Through is the the War. Goode, William Osborne, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 16, 1798, in Inglewood, Va. He was for several terms a member of the state legislature; and in 1829 was a member of the state reform convenIn 1841-43' and 1853-59 tion of Virginia. he was a representative from Virginia to the twenty-seventh, thirty-third, thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses. He died July 3, 1859, near Boydtown, Va. 1875, in Newfoundland.

Arthur Augustus, soldier, was York. In 1862 he became captain in the thirty-sixth regiment Massachusetts infantry; and in 1865 attained the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers. He died June 30, 1882. Goodell, Charles Le Roy, clergyman, author, was born July 31, 1854, in Dudley, Since 1904 he has been pastor of Mass: Calvary church of New York City. He is the author of The Drill Master of Methodism; Pastoral and Personal Evangelism; and other works. Goodell, Constans Liberty, clergyman, founder, author, was born Miirch 16, 1830, In 1873 he was one of the in Calais, Vt. founders and a trustee of Drury college of Springfield, Mo.; and gave two hundred valuable books to begin a library. He was Goodell,

born

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the author of How to Build a Church. died Feb. 1, 1886, in St. Louis, Mo.

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Goodell, Henry Hill, soldier, educator, college president, author, was born May 20, 1839, in Constantinople, Turkey. In 186467 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 was the author of a Biographical Record of the Class of Sixty-two; and of a Compilation of Historic Fiction. He died in 1905 in Amherst, Mass.

Roswell Eaton, soldier, public business president, was born Oct. 21, 1825, in Windham county. Conn. He was educated in the public schools at Ottawa, 111.; clerk in a general store in Chicago; and in 1846-47 served in the Mexican war. In 1850 he was sheriff of LaSalle county, 111. In 1853-54 was secretary of the Illinois state senate; and in 1854 was secretary of the Illinois canal commission. In 1858 he was superintendent of the Chicago and AlGoodell,

official,

ton railroad; and gave George M. Pullman the first order for a palace coach. In 1861 he organized the twentieth regiment Illinois volunteer infantry; and in 1861-65 was interested in government contracts for

war