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into the pro-slavery wing of bis church. After twelve years in the itinerancy and a year as presi- dent of Whitewater college, he was appointed superintendent of missions in Kansas and Ne- braska, and for ten years was engaged chiefly upon the frontier. His field of labor included all the region from Texas on the south and the Nebraska frontier on the north, between the state boundaries on the east and the Rocky mountains on tlie west. He traversed this territory from east to west twenty-seven times, visited all the frontier settlements in their infancy, and estab- lished missions among the Wyaudots, Delawares, Shawnees and Kickapoos. His powers were virt- ually those of a bishop, and he placed more than one hundred ministers in permanent posts. In 18.55 the Kansas -and Nebraska conference was organized under his presidency in a cloth tent on the plains at Laramie. The Nebraska conference was formed by hiiu in 1860 and the Colorado con- ference in 1864. The latter years of his life were passed at Richmond, Ind. He was forty years in the ministry, twenty -seven years a presid- ing elder, and was seven times elected to the General conference. He received the degree of D. D. from Indiana Asbury university in 1869. He published Outposts of Zion (1863). His son Philip Hayes Goode (1835-56) of Villiska, Iowa, served, 1861-6.5, in the Mississippi campaigns, was captain in the -Ith Iowa battery and was wounded at Pittsburg Landing. Dr. Goode died at Rich- mond, Inil., Dec. 16, 1879.

QOODE, William Osborne, representative, was born at " Inglewood,"' Mecklenburg county, Va., Sept. 16, 1798; son of Capt. John Chester- field and Lucy (Claiborne) Goode, and grandson of Thomas and Agnes (Osborne) Goode. His father was an officer of the war of 1812, a student at William and Mary coUege, a member of the Vir- ginia house of burgesses and, like his own father, a wealthy planter. The son was graduated at William and Mary in 1819, and began law pi-actice at Boydton in 1831. He entered the state legisla- ture and as an advocate of gradual emancipa- tion took part in the debates in 1833, and was a delegate to the State reform conventions. He served as a representative in the 37th congress. 18-11-43, again in the 33d, 34th and 35th con- gresses, 1853-59, and was re-elected to the 3Gth congress but died before taking his seat. In the interim of his congressional terms he served in the state legislature and was th?ice elected speaker of the house of delegates. He was a member of the state reform convention of 1850, chairman of the legislative committee, and a member of the house of delegates called to put the new con.stitution into operation. He was married to Sarah Maria, dancrhter of Thomas Massie. He died at Boydton, Va., July 3, 1859.

QOODELL, Abner Cheney, inventor, wa» born in North Orange, Mass., Feb. 9, 1805; son of Zina and Joanna (Cheney ) Goodell ; grandson of Joseph and Ann (Hopkins) Goodell, and of Eben- ezer and Abigail (Thompson) Chenej-; great* grandson of Joseph and Elizabeth (Goodell), great^ grandson of Joseph and Mary, great' grandson of Zachariah and Elizabeth (Beau- champ), and great* grandson of Robert and Katherine (Kilnam) Goodell of Dennington, Suffolk, England, who sailed from Ipswich, Eng- land, April 30, 1634, and settled in Salem, Mass. Abner received a common school education and worked as a machinist in Boston and at Cam- bridgeport, where he began his inventions and perfected the art of preparing steel and copper plates for engravers. He continued this business for a while in Ipswich, Mass. , and subsequently worked as a machinist in Byfield and Lowell. At Lowell he heljied to construct the first locomotive used on the Boston & Lowell railroad, and to build the first turntable. Among his inventions was the first printing-press that printed on both sides of a sheet at once. This he completed under the patronage of Prof. Daniel Treadwell, Rum- ford professor at Harvard, 1834-45. He also per- fected a lozenge-cutting machine identical in principle with the cracker machine which was copied from it and afterward came into general use. In 1837 he removed to Salem, where he helped to build the first electric locomotive en- gine, invented by Charles Grafton Page, which ran between tlie cities of Baltimore, Md., and Wash- ington, D.C. Here also he invented machines for making kegs; for splitting and pointing shoe- pegs ; for rolling tin tubes : for boring pump and aqueduct logs; for punching and cutting cold steel, and before 1840 he constructed and used a tricycle propelled by foot-power. He died in Salem, Mass., March 27, 1898.

QOODELL, Henry Hill, educator, was born in Constantinople, Turkey, Blay 20, 1839 ; son of the Rev. Dr. William and Abigail (Davis) Goodell. He was graduated from Amherst, A.B., 1862, A.M.. 1865, and served in the volimteer army as 2d and 1st lieutenant and afterward on the staff of Colonel Bissell in the 19th ami}' corps, 1862-63. He was professor of modern languages at Willis- ton seminary, Easthampton, Mass., 1864-67; held the same chair in the Massachusetts agricultural college, 1867-86, and was elected president of the latter institution in 1886. He is the author of: A Jiiographical Ile.cord of the Class of Si-fty-tioo of Amherst (1873) ; Compilation of Historic Fiction (1876) ; and numerous contributions to periodical literature.

QOODELL, Thomas Dwight, educator, was bom in Ellington, Conn.. Nov. 8, 18.54; son of Francis and S Louisa (Burpee) Goodell: grand-