GOODRICH
GOODRICH
member of the state legislature, 1862; state
superintendent of public instruction, 1863-66;
anil commissioner for the Kansas state agricul-
tural college, 1867-73, and for the Missouri, Kan-
sas & Texas railway company, 1869-76. He was
a charter member of the Kansas state teachers"
association; a member of the State historical
society, 1883-94; of the Academy of science; of
the State temperance union, and of the Patrons of ,
husbandry, and an extensive traveller in the
United States and Mexico. He received the hon-
orary degree of M.A. from Wesleyan university
in 1845, and that of Ph.D. from Baker univer-
sity, Kansas, in 1889. He married, Aug. 28, 1838,
Ellen D., daughter of Major David and Lucy
(Avery) Denison of Colerain, Mass. He died at
Manhattan, Kan., March 20, 1894.
GOODRICH, Alfred Bailey, clergyman, was born in Rocky Hill, Conn., March 32, 1828; son of Levi and Cynthia (Whitmore) Goodrich, and grandson of William Goodrich. He was gradii- ated at Trinity college, A.B., 18.53; A.M., 1855, and at Berkeley divinity school in 1855. He was ordained a deacon in 18.53, and a priest in 1854 ; and was rector of St. Peter's, Plymouth, Conn., in 1854; of St. John's, Millville, Mass., 1854-59; and of Cavalry, Utica, N.Y., 1859-96. While at Millville he founded the society for the education of yourlg men for the ministry. He was secre- tary of the undivided diocese of Western New York, 1866-68; of the diocese of Central New York, 1868-96; was a member of its standing com- mittee, and represented it in the centennial convention of the Episco])al church in Philadel- phia, Pa., 1883. He was a member of the general missionary council of his church and a member of the federate council of the Ave dioceses of New Y'ork. On Dec. 27, 1847, lie was man-ied to Eliza- beth A. Meigs of Hartford, Conn., who died Nov. 36, 1897. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Hamilton in 1867. Besides contribu- ting to religious publications he published a service and time book for Sunday schools and as- sisted in compiling a hymnal for choirs and congre- gations. He died at Trenton, N.Y., Dec.l6, 1896.
GOODRICH, Caspar Frederick, naval officer, was boriL in I'liiladeljiliia, Pa., Jan. 7, 1847; son of William and Sarah Anne (Bearden) Goodrich, and grandson of James and Elizabeth (Bulkeley) Goodrich of Connecticut, and of R. B. and Amy (Cooke) Bearden of Knoxville, Tenn. His pater- nal ancestors begin in America with Ensign Wil- liam Goodrich, and the Rev. Gershom Bulkeley of Wethersfield, Conn., 1635, and his first maternal ancestor in America was Richard Cocke of the Virginia House of Burgesses. Caspar attended Russell's school at New Haven, Conn., 1859-61, and was graduated at the U.S. naval academy, Newport, R.I.. in 1864 with tlie highest standing
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in his class. He served in the civil war, 1864-65,
as acting midshipman, was made ensign, Dec. 1,
1866; lieutenant, March 13, 1868; lieutenant-com-
mander, March 26, 1869; commander, Sept. 27,
1884, and captain, Sept. 16, 1897. He served on
the staff of Lord
Wolseley in the
Egyptian campaign,
1882; was in charge
of ordnance sliips at
Washington, D.C.,
1884 ; naval member
of the Endicott forti-
fication board, 1885 ;
in charge of the tur-
pedo station, New-
port, R.I., 1886-89,
and president of
Naval war college,
1897-98. He com-
manded the U.S.S. St.
Louis from April to
August, 1898, and the Newark from August, 1898.
On May 18, 1898, he was the first to engage the
batteries at Santiago where he cut the telegraph
cable under fire. He cut all the foreign telegraph
cables to Cuba, brought Admiral Cervera north as
a prisoner, seized Arroyo, Puerto Rico, and
fought the battle of Manzanillo, Aug. 12, 1898, the
last in the war with Spain. The place was ready
to surrender to him, and the letter of surrender
was signed when the news of the armistice
reached him by cable. He became a member of
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States in 1898 and of the Order of Foreign
Wars the same j'ear. He joined the Army and
Navy club, Washington, D.C., 1887; the Play-
ers club. New York city, 1890 ; the Century asso-
ciation, 1891 ; the Metropolitan club, 1893, and the
New York yacht club, 1894. He was maiTied,
Sept. 4, 1873, to Eleanor Slilnor. Yale conferred
upon him the honorary degree of M.A. in 1888.
He published Beport on Operations in Effijpt in
1SS2, and contributed to the Proceedings of the
Naval institute, of which he became gold med-
alist.
GOODRICH, Charles Augustus, clergyman, was born in Ridgefield, Conn., in 1790. He was graduated from Yale in 1813, and four years later was ordained a minister of the Congregational church. He held a pastorate in Worcester, Mass., 1816-30 ; in Berlin, Conn. , 1830^8, and then took charge of a congregation in Hartford, Conn. He was at one time a member of the state senate and held other public offices. In collaboration with his brother, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, he wrote several books for the young, and is also the author of: View of Bdiriions (1829); Lives of the Signers (1829-36) ; History of the United States of
