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Montgomery, Ala., where he read law with his brother and was admitted to the bar in 1827. He wa.s a circuit judge, 1843-52; was a judge of the supreme court of Alabama, 1853-56 ; and was then appointed chief justice of the state supreme court, resigning at the end of thirteen days" ser- vice. In 1861 he was made adjutant-general of Alabama, and in 1868 was again elected a circuit judge but was disqualified for service by an act of congres.s. He served as a U.S. senator, 1871- 77, after which he retired from public life. He died at Montgomery. Ala.. March 18. 1879.

QOOCH, Daniel Wheelwright, representative, was born in \\Vlls, Maine, Jan. 8, 1830. He was graduated from Dartmouth in 1843, Avas admitted to the bar in 1846, and began practice in Boston, Mass. He was a representative in the state leg- islature in 18,52; member of the state constitu- tional convention in 1853; a representative from the seventh Massachusetts disti-ict in the 34th congress to fill a vacancj', and was reelected to the 3.5-38th, and also to the 43d congresses, serving, 1856-65 and 1873-75. During the four years of the joint congressional committee on the conduct of the war, he was chairman of the house members, and personally conducted the investigation of the Fort Pillow massacre. He was naval officer at the port of Boston, Mass., in 1865, and U.,S. pension agent there, 1876-86. He died in Melrose. Mass., Nov, 1, 1891.

QOOCH, Frank Austin, chemist, was born in Watertown, Mass., Jlay 3, 1852; son of Joshua Goodale and Sarah (Coolidge) Gooch ; grand.son of Samuel and Hannah (Goodale) Gooch, and of Josiah and Mary (Hastings) Coolidge, and a de- scendant of John Gooch, Robert Goodelle, John Coolidge and Thomas Hastings, all resident in New England previous to 1640. He was gradu- ated from Har\ard in 1872, was an assistant in the chemical department there, 1873-75; studied in Europe and at Harvard, 1875-77, and received the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D from Harvard in 1877. After two years more of postgraduate study at Cambridge he was appointed in 1879 a special agent of the 10th census and engaged in the expert analysis of iron ores and coals. He was chief chemist of the northern transcontinen- tal survey, 1881-84; a chemist of the U.S. geolog- ical survey in Washington, 1884-85; and the latter year was appointed to the chair of chemis- try at Yale where he planned the Kent chemical laboratory. He devised various forms of chemi- cal apparatus and contributed to the literature of chemical research. He was elected a member of the National academy of sciences in 1897; was a Fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences, and a member of other scientific so- cieties. The honorary degree of M.A. was con- ferred upon him by Yale in 1887.

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GOOD, James Isaac, educator, was born at York. Pa., Dec. 31, 18.')0, son of William A. and Su.san B. (Eckert) Good: grandson of Philip Good, and a descendant of John Jacob Good, and of Capt. Conrad Eckert of the Revolutionary army. He was taken to Reading, Pa., at an early age. He was grad- uated from Lafayette college in 1872 and from Union theolog- ical seminary in 1875. He was ordained a minister in the (German) Reformed church, June 16, 1875, and was pastor at York, Pa., 1875- 77, and at the Heidelberg Reformed church, Philadelphia, Pa., 1877-90. In 1887 he declined the chair of dogmatics

in the Theological seminary of Heidelberg col- lege, Ohio, and in 1890 was elected professor of church history in Ursinus college. Pa., and in 1893 became professor of dogmatics in that insti- tution. The degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by Ursinus college in 1887. His published works include : Origin of the Ueformed Chnrch in Germany (1887); JtamhUs Arotind Ueformed Lands (1889) ; History of the Befirmed Church of Germany (1894); Historical Handbook of the Ueformed Chnrch (1897); Early Fathers of the Ueformed Chnrch (!S97).

GOODALE, Dora Read, poet, was born in Mt. Washington, Ma.ss., Oct. 29, 1866; daughter of Henry Sterling and Dora Hill (Read) Goodale, and granddaughter of Chester and Sophia (Bush- nell) Goodale, and of Thaddeus Benedict and Eleanor (Lyon) Read. She was educated princi- pally by her mother, and at an early age began to write for a paper which her sister Elaine edited, and which was read in the evening for the amu.sement of the family. Subsequently she devoted some time to the study of art in Northampton, Ma.ss. The early poems of herself and her sister Elaine were published in Apple Blossoms (1878), and their later poems in In Berkshire irith the mid Flowers (1879), and All Sound the Year (1.S80). She is the author of fre- quent contributions, both in prose and verse, to various pajjers and magazines.

GOODALE, Elaine, See Eastman. Elaine Goodale.

GOODALE, George Lincoln, educator, was born in S.aco, Maine, Aug. 3. 1839; son of .Stephen Lincoln and Prudence Aiken (Nour.^e) Good.ale. and grandson of Enoch and Lucy (Lincoln)