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Rh and the Admission of Kansas into the Union" (March 29, 1858); "Polygamy in Utah" (April 4, 1860); "The Supreme Court and Dred Scott" (May 3, 1860); "Organization of the Territories" (May 11, 1860); "Any Compromise a Surrender"

(February 23, 1861); "Recognition of Hayti and Liberia" (June 2, 1862); "Secession and Reconstruction" (May 3, 1864).

Mr. Gooch married Hannah H., daughter of John S. and Theodosia L. Pope, of Wells, Maine, and his only living child is William W. Gooch, born September 8, 1857.

 GOODALE,, son of Aaron and Elizabeth (Kales) Goodale, was born September 8, 1861, at West Boylston, Worcester county.

He attended the district schools in his native town, also the grammar and high schools, receiving a thorough course of academic training in the Worcester Academy. He is a graduate of Eastman National Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

He afterwards worked one year for W. R. Walker, in West Boylston, in a general country store. Later he worked for J. W. Howe & Co., Clinton, three years; then went to Hudson in company with Solon Wood, under the firm name of Solon Wood & Co., and remained there one year, after which he returned to Clinton, and has since been in company with J. W. Howe, under the firm name of Howe & Goodale, carrying on an extensive furniture and grocery business.

Mr. Goodale was married in Clinton, September 21, 1887, to Annie Carroll, daughter of William N. and Mary Ann (Dickinson) Peirce.

He is a member of the board of selectmen, elected in 1889 for three years.

 GOODELL,, son of Hosea B. and Harriet (Fiske) Goodell, was born in Southbridge, Worcester county, September 15, 1851.

His education was received in the common schools of Southbridge and North Brookfield, he having moved to the latter town in 1862.

He opened a retail provision market in East Brookfield, February, 1874. Having sold out the business in 1875, he returned to North Brookfield and went into business in the same line. In November, 1880, he disposed of his interests, and in April, 1882, went to South Framingham. Here he bought a large market business which he still owns.

Mr. Goodell was married in North Brookfield, May 1, 1873, to Emma F., daughter of John and Mary (Griffith) Carleton. Of this union are three children: Juva H., Florence C. and Robert H. Goodell.

Mr. Goodell is active in all matters of public interest, and prominent in the municipal affairs of Framingham. It was owing much to his perseverance that the town secured the right and adopted the system of "intermittent downward filtration sewage," improved fire-alarm, street fountains, etc. He was overseer of the poor, 1885, '86 and '87, and selectman, '86, '87, '88 and '89. He was vice-president of the Citizens' Association, now merged in the Commercial Club, and is a director of South Framingham Co-operative Bank.

 GOODNOW,, was born at Princeton, Worcester county, on the 16th of July, 1810. He was the third son of Edward and Rebecca (Beaman) Goodnow. The house in which he was born was built by his grandfather, Edward Goodnow, in 1786, and during his boyhood was occupied by his father as a tavern. His early training was in this tavern, on the farm, somewhat in the district school, and somewhat less in Hadley Academy, where, indeed, he spent only three terms. At the age of nineteen he went to work for wages in the store of his older brother in