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GOODNOW

pointed major and judge-advocate of volunteers, Nov. 28, 18(55, and was transferred Feb. 35, 18(57, to the corps of judge-advocates, U.S.A., with the rank of major. In 186G he was married to Eleanor, daughter of Robert Brent of Washing- ton, D.C. He was judge-advocate of the depart- ment of the Missouri at the time of his death, at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., Dec. 29, 1885.

QOODHUE, Benjamin, senator, was born in Salem, Mass., Oct. 1, 1748. He was graduated at Harvard in 17G0, and received hi.s A.M. degree from both Yale and Harvard in 1804. He was a merchant and engaged in foreign trade. He served in the state senate, 1784-89, and repre- sented the Salem district in the 1st, 2d and 3d Federal congresses, 1789-95. In collaboration with Representative Thomas Fitzsimmons of Philadelphia lie drew up a code of revenue laws most of which became permanently iucorpoiated in the revenue laws of the United States. He was elected U.S. senator in 1796 to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of George Cabot, was re-elected in 1797 for a full senatorial term, and was chairman of the committee on com- merce. He resigned his seat in the senate, Dec. 19, 1800, and was succeeded by Jonathan Mason. He died in Salem, Mass., July 28. 1814.

QOODKNIQHT, James Lincorn, clergyman and educator, was born near Mt. Aerial, Allen county, Ky. , Aug. 24, 1846; son of Isaac and Lucinda (Billingsley) Goodknight, and a grand- son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Condor) Goodknight, and of Capt. John and Mary (Doak) Billingsley, and great-grandson of Michael and Mary (Landes) Goodknight. His great-grandfa- ther, Michael, came from the lowlands of Germany to Philadel- phia about 1735, and settled at Rockbridge, Va., about 1737; re- moving thence to Mecklenburg county, N.C, where he was a member of the Meck- ■ j6^uuue^ j^^^i,^ lenburg convention which adopted the first Declaration of Independence He removed from North Carolina to Harlaus St.ition. fiercer county, Ky. His son, Isaac, is said to have been the first white male child born in Kentucky. James L. Goodknight was graduated from Cum- berland universit}-. Tenn., in 1871. He was a teacher at Little Muddy, Ky., 1871-72; was or- dained a Presbyterian mmister Aug. 9. 1872. and was joint pastor at Little Muddy, Pilot Knob, and Oasper River, Ky., 1873-76. He was graduated

from the Union theological seminary. New York, in 1879; was pastor at Covington, Ohio, 1879-89, and was a delegate from the Cumberland Pan- Presbyterian Denominate to the Pan-Presbyterian council at Belfast, Ireland, in 1884, when the Cumberland Presbyterians were first admitted to membership in the council. He was also a dele- gate to the World's Sunday-school convention in London, England, in 1889. He took a post grad- uate course and first honors in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1889-90; re- ceived the degree of D.D. from Waynesburg col- lege. Pa, in 1890; took a po.st-graduate course in philosophj-, pedagogy and biology at Jena uni- versity, Germany, 1890-91, and took six months of travel study in Egypt, Palestine. Syria, Asia Minor, Turke3% Greece and Italy in 1891, having previously spent five months in such study in Europe. He was pastor at Waynesburg, Pa., 1891-95, and president of West Virginia univer- sity at Morgantown. W.Va., 1895-97. He is the author of numerous contributions on religious, social, political and educational questions to perio lic-al literature.

GOODNIGHT, Isaac Herschel, representative, was born in Allen county, Ky., Jan. 31, 1849; son of Isaac and Lucinda (Billingsley) Good- knight. In 1870 he removed to Franklin, Ky. He was graduated fi-ora Cumberland university, Lebanon, Ky., in 1872; attended the law depart- ment of the same university till 1873; was ad- mitted to the bar in 1874, and settled to practice in Franklin. He represented Simjison county in the state legislature in 1877-78, and was a Dem- ocratic representative from Kentucky in the 51st, 52d and 53d congresses, 1889-9.5. He was elected judge of the 7th Kentucky circuit court district in 1897.

GOODNOW, Isaac Tichenor, educator, was born in Whittingham, Vt., Jan. 17, 1814; son of William and Sybil (Arms) Goodnow; and grand- son of Jesse and Polly (Bond) Goodnow, and of Capt. John Arms, an early settler of Brattleboro, Vt, and one of the Green Mountain boys. His father died in 1828 and he assisted his mother in the care of the family. He was first clerk in a .store four years, then attended school winters and taught summers. He was pupil and teacher in Wilbraham academy, 1834-38, and professor of natural science there, 1838-48, and at Provi- dence seminary, R.I.. 1848-55. He went to Kan- sas Territory in 1855 as advance agent to select a site for a Boston colony of 200 emigrants which he fixed and named Manhattan, and when the colony arrived he was made a director of the town association. In 1858 he was a founder of the Bluemont college, afterward the Kansas state agricultural college. Manhattan, Kan., and pres- ident of the institution, 1861-63. He was a