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 coomvrx. GOKUON. 255 On the iotli of December, 1850, Mr. Goodrich was married at Lunenburg, to Martha A. V., daughter of Samuel H. and Mary (Hart) Bailey. She died on the 12th of December, 1S84, leaving two children : Charles Edwin and Adie Elizabeth. On the iSth of June, 1 S S 7, Mr. Goodrich was again married, to Mrs. Josephine M. Col- burn of Aver. For fifteen years Mr. Goodrich has been superintendent of the Lunenburg Unitarian CHARLES A. GOODRICH. Sunday-school, and for thirty-live years upon the school committee, most of tin- time as its chairman. For nearly a quarter of a century he has been upon the board of selectmen, assessors, and overseers of the poor, and for many years justice of the peace and notary public. I lis valuable and honorable service has been largely ill demand as administrator and executor of many estates, and guardian of several wards. Mr. Goodrich is in one other respect a notable product of Massachusetts soil, being an unusually large man, measuring six feet live and a half inches in height. GOODWIN, William Watson, son of Hersey Bradford and Lucretia Ann (Watson) Goodwin, was bom in Concord, Middlesex county, May 9, [831. He grad- uated at Harvard in 1851, and afterwards studied at Gottingen, Bonn, and Berlin. He was a tutor in Harvard College from 1856 till '60, and since i860 he has been Eliot professor of Greek literature. He was the first director of the Ameri- can school of classical studies at Athens, Greece, in i882-'83, and was president of the American Philological Association in 1 87 2 and again in 1885. Professor Goodwin is a member of the Imperial Archaeological Institute of Ger- many, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and is a knight of the Greek order of the Saviour. He received the degree of Ph. D. from the University of Gottingen in 1855, and that of LL. D. from Amherst College in 1881, from the University of Cambridge, England, in 1:883, and again from Columbia College, N. Y., in 1887. He has been a contributor to various literary and philological journals and to the transactions of societies in the United States and England. He has been the chief editor of the " Papers of the Amer- ican School of Classical Studies at Athens," volumes i.-iv., published in Boston in [885 and '88. His works include " Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Creek Verb " (Cam- bridge, i860 ; revised edition, 1865 —Lon- don, 1873); "Elementary Greek Gram- mar" ( Boston, 1 870 — enlarged edition, Bos- ton and London, 1S79); "Greek Reader," with Rev. Joseph H. Allen (Boston, 1871); and an edition of Xenophon's " Anabasis," books i.-iv., with Professor John W. White (Boston and London, 1877). He also revised the old translation of "Plu- tarch's Morals by Several Hands," i.-iv. (Boston, 1870). 1'rofessor Goodwin was married in New York, February 3, 1864, to Emily Haven, daughter of Horace Howard and Mary Prudence (Haven) Jenks, who dietl in 1874, leaving one son : Charles Haven Goodwin, born in 1866. He was again married, in 1882, to Ellen Adelaide Chand- ler, of Jamaica Plain. GORDON, ADONIRAM JUDSON, sonof John Calvin and Sally (Robinson) Gordon, was born in New Hampton, Belknap coun- ty, N. H., April 19, 1836. He received his early education in the common school of his native town, and sub- sequently entered the preparatory school at New London, N. H., with the distinct object of fitting himself for a gospel min- istry, thence going to Brown University, Providence, R. I. He was graduated at