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HBRRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.

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uted both prose and verse to the- leading newspapers and magazines of America, which have been a valuable acquisition to

American

literature.

Goodwin, Nathaniel, genealogist, author, was born March 6, 1783, in Hartford, Conn. He was probate judge of Hartford, Conn. He was the author of Genealogical Notes of

Some

of the First Settlers of Connecticut He died May 88, 1855,

and Massachusetts. in Hartford, Conn.

Goodwin, Nathaniel Carl,

actor',

comedian,

25, 1857, in Boston, Mass. the plays in which he has attained

was born July

Among

note on the American stage are Hobbies; Warranted; Mascot; Major Wellington De

A

Boots; Pinafore; Patience;

An American

Citizen;

and

Gilded Fool;

others.

Goodwin, Peterson, congressman, was born In 1803-19 he was a represenin Virginia.

from Virginia in the eighth to the fifteenth congress. He died Feb. 21, 1818, in

tative

Virginia.

Goodwin, William Frederick, soldier, auwas born Sept. 27, 1823, in Limington, Maine. He served in the civil war; was brevetted captain; and retired in 1865 from incapacity resulting from a wound. He was the author of a History of the Constitution

thor,

New Hampshire of 1776, 1784, 1792; and Records of Narragansett Township. He died March 12, 1872, in Concord, N.H. of

Goodwin, William Watson, educator, auwas born May 9, 1831, in Concord, Mass. He has been Eliot professor of Greek thor,

at Harvard university in 1861and professor emeritus since 1901. He is the author of Syntax of Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb; and A Greek Grammar. Goodwin, Willis Wallace, lawyer, jurist, was born in 1787 in Jefferson county, Ky. For twenty-five years he was judge of the circuit and common pleas courts of Clark literature

1901;

county, Ind.

He

died in 1880 in Centralia.

Goodwyn, Albert Taylor,

soldier, farmer,

state senator, congressman, was born Dec. In 18741842, in Robinson" Springs, Ala. 80 he was state inspector of convicts. He was a member of the state house of representatives in 1886-87; a member of the state senate in 1892-96. He was in the confederate army from the beginning of the war to

the end; and he was mustered out at the the war as captain of a company of sharpshooters. In 1895-97 he was a representative to the fifty-fourth congress. Goodyear, Charles, manufacturer, inventor, was born Dec. 29, 1800, in New Haven, Conn. He produced the vulcanized or ebonclose

of

india-rubber, which immortalized his lived long enough to see his material applied to nearly five hundred uses. He died July 1, 1860, in New York City. ized

name; and he

Goodyear, Charles, lawyer, jurist, banker, congressman, was born April 26, 1805, in Cobbeskill, N. Y. He was a member of the New York state assembly in 1839. In 1841 he was appointed first judge of Schoharie county; and in 1845-47 and 1865-67 he was a representative from New York to the twenty-ninth and thirty-ninth congresses. He died in New York. Goodyear, Ellsworth D. S., soldier, was born in Connecticut. In 1861 he became captain in the tenth regiment Connecticut infantry; and in 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers.

Goodyear, William Henry, educator, auwas born in 1846 in New Haven, Conn. He is an art educator; and curator of Fine Arts at the Brooklyn institute museum. He is the author of Roman and Mediaeval Art; Renaissance and Modern Art; History of Art; The Grammar of the Lotus; and Ancient and Modern History. Googins, George Edgar, lawyer, author, was born Feb. 25, 1863, in Milbridge, Maine. In 1892-95 he wa* superintendent of public schools of Milbridge, Maine, where he is engaged in the practice of law. He is the author of a novel entitled Strange Adventures of a Summer Tourist. He Gookin, Charles, soldier, statesman. attained the rank of colonel; and was deputy-governor of Pennsylvania under William Penn during 1709-17. Gookin, Daniel, educator, author, was born For the last thirty in 1613 in England. years of his life he was superintendent of the Indians in Massachusetts. He was the author of Historical Collections of the Indians in New England; and Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Cliristian Indians in New England. He died March 19, 1687, in Cambridge, Mass. Gookins, Charles, colonial governor. In 1709-17 he was colonial governor of Penn-

thor,

sylvania.

Goold, William, historian, author, was born in 1809. For many years he was corresponding secretary of the Maine historical society. He was the author of a large volume entitled Portland in the Past. He died in 1890 in Portland, Maine. Gordan, John Brown, litterateur, author, was bom in 1832 in Georgia. He is the author of Reminiscences of the Civil War.

He

died in 1904.

Gordan, William, clergyman, author, was born in 1740 in England. In 1772-86 he was a congregational clergyman of Roxbury, Mass. He is the author of Progress and Establishment of the Independence of the United States of America. He died in 1807 in Roxbury, Mass.