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GOODRICH


GOODWIN


Flirtation and What Comes of It, a five-act comedy (1861); The Tribute Book (I860); World Famons Women (1870), and Remarkable Voyayes (1873). He also translated two of Balzac's novels (1860). He die 1 in Mornstown. N.J., March 15, 1894.

aOOORlCH, John Ellsworth, educator, was born in Hinsdale, Mass., Jan. 19, 1831; son of Elijah Hubbard and Mary Northrup (Washburn) Goodrich; grandson of Elijah H. and Mabel (Nicliolsou) Goodrich and of Capt. Abraham and Olive (Wright) Washburn ; and sixth in descent from " Ensigne " William Goodrich of Suffolk county, England, who settled in Connecticut before October, 1648. His grandfather, Abraham Washburn, was a soldier in the Revolution, and his great grandfather, Josiah Goodrich, was a lieutenant in the French war. He was gradua- ted at the University of Vermont, A.B., 1853. He was jjrincipal of tiie academies at Hinsdale and Montpelier, Vt., 1853-56; was graduated at Andover theological seminary in 1860; was chaplain of the 1st Vermont cavalry, 1864-65; superintendent of city schools, Burlington, Vt., 1868-70: principal of the Meriden, N.H., acad- emy, 1871-72; professor of rhetoric and Latin in the University of Vermont, 1872-77; of Latin and Greek, 1877-81; librarian, 1873-86, and professor of Latin from 1881. He was married. Feb. 8, 1869, to Ellen Miranda Moody of Burlington, Vt., and their son, Chauncey Marsh Goodrich, was graduated at the University of Vermont in 1896 Professor Goodrich received the honorary degree of D.D. from tlie L'ni versify of Vermont in 1897.

GOODRICH, Samuel Qrlswold, author, was born in Ridgefleld, Conn., Aug. 19, 1793; brother of the Rev. Charles Augustus Goodrich. He travelled abroad in 1823-24, and returned to the United States to become a book publisher in Hartford, Conn. He began the publication of historical, geographical and other school books and became in the same department a prolific writer. In 1828 he removed to Boston, Mass., and started The Token, which he edited till 1842. In that magazine Hawthorne's " Twice Told Tales " first appeared. Mr. Goodrich was a member of the Massachusetts senate, 1838-39, edited Merry's Mnseuni and Parley's 3Iayazine, 1841-54; and was U.S. consul in Paris during President Fillmore's administration, 1851-55. While in Paris lie arranged for the tran.slation into French of his " Peter Parley series." Upon his return to the United States he made his home in New York city. He was the recipient of the honorary degree of M. A. from Williams in 1836 and from Yale in 1843. He is the author or editor of about 170 volumes, 116 of which were written under the pen name " Peter Parley." In his " Recollections of a Lifetime "


(1856) he published a list and full account of his books, together with a list of spurious works claimcsd to have been written by him. This list of works occupies six pages and may be summed up as follows; miscellaneous works, including 14 volurn3s of The 'Token, 30 volumes; school books, 27 volumes ; PeJer Parley's Tales, 36 volumes; Pirley's Historical Compends, 36 volumes; Parley's 3Iiscell(iiiies, 70 volumes. His last publication was Illustrated Natural History (2 vols., 1859). He died in New York city. May 9. 1860

GOODSELL, Daniel Ayres, ME. bishop, was born at Newburg, N.Y., Nov. 0, 1840; son of the Rev. Buel and Adaline (Ferris) Goodsell; grand- son of Isaac Goodsell and of Nathan Ferris; and a descendant of Tliomas Goodsell. vvho married Sarah Hemingway" and built the first house in East Haven, Conn. His father was for fifty years a mini.ster of the Methodist Ejiiscopal church. The son was prepared for college at Clinton academy, Keeseville, N.Y., and was graduated from the University of the citj' of New York in 1859. He was married in June, 1860, to Sarah F. Lawrence of Whitestown, N.Y. He entered the Methodist Episcopal ministry in the same year and was pastor until 1887, princi- pally in Brooklj'n, N.Y., and New Haven, Conn. He was a delegate to the general conferences of 1876, 1880, 1884 and 1888. He was literary editor of the New York Christian Advocate, 1880-88, and from 1884 to 1888 was e^ditorially connected with the Methodist Peview. In Januarj', 1887, he was elected editor of Zion's Herald, Boston, and while waiting to take this position was elected secre- tai'y of the board of education of the M.E. church in 1887 and in 1888 was chosen a bishop. His first Episcopal residence was at Fort Worth, Texas, whence he visited the missions in Korea, China and Japan. He was transferred to San Francisco in 1829 and to Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1896. He received the degree of S.T.D. from Wesleyan in 1881, and that of LL.D. from Dick- inson in 1890.

GOODWIN, Daniel, author, was born in New York city, Nov. 26, 1832; .sou of John W. and Lucretia (Goodwin) Woolsey; and grandson of Dr. Daniel and Lucretia (Collins) Goodwin of Geneva, N.Y. Daniel Goodwin, the uncle and adopted father, born in Geneva, N.Y., Nov. 24, 1799, was U.S. district attorney for Michigan, 1834-41 ; judge of the state supreme court, 1843- 46; president of the constitutional convention, 1850, and died in Detroit, Mich., Aug. 24, 1887. Daniel Goodwin, second, was graduated from Hamilton college in 1852, admitted to the bar in New York in 1854, and removed to Michigan in 1855. He was U.S. master in chancery for Mich- igan. 185.5-56; judge-advocate of militia, 1856-61; re&oved to Chicago, 1858, was assistant U.S.