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member of the state legislature, 1862; state superintendent of public instruction, 1863-66; anil commissioner for the Kansas state agricul- tural college, 1867-73, and for the Missouri, Kan- sas & Texas railway company, 1869-76. He was a charter member of the Kansas state teachers" association; a member of the State historical society, 1883-94; of the Academy of science; of the State temperance union, and of the Patrons of, husbandry, and an extensive traveller in the United States and Mexico. He received the hon- orary degree of M.A. from Wesleyan university in 1845, and that of Ph.D. from Baker univer- sity, Kansas, in 1889. He married, Aug. 28, 1838, Ellen D., daughter of Major David and Lucy (Avery) Denison of Colerain, Mass. He died at Manhattan, Kan., March 20, 1894.

GOODRICH, Alfred Bailey, clergyman, was born in Rocky Hill, Conn., March 32, 1828; son of Levi and Cynthia (Whitmore) Goodrich, and grandson of William Goodrich. He was gradii- ated at Trinity college, A.B., 18.53; A.M., 1855, and at Berkeley divinity school in 1855. He was ordained a deacon in 18.53, and a priest in 1854 ; and was rector of St. Peter's, Plymouth, Conn., in 1854; of St. John's, Millville, Mass., 1854-59; and of Cavalry, Utica, N.Y., 1859-96. While at Millville he founded the society for the education of yourlg men for the ministry. He was secre- tary of the undivided diocese of Western New York, 1866-68; of the diocese of Central New York, 1868-96; was a member of its standing com- mittee, and represented it in the centennial convention of the Episco])al church in Philadel- phia, Pa., 1883. He was a member of the general missionary council of his church and a member of the federate council of the Ave dioceses of New Y'ork. On Dec. 27, 1847, lie was man-ied to Eliza- beth A. Meigs of Hartford, Conn., who died Nov. 36, 1897. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Hamilton in 1867. Besides contribu- ting to religious publications he published a service and time book for Sunday schools and as- sisted in compiling a hymnal for choirs and congre- gations. He died at Trenton, N.Y., Dec.l6, 1896.

GOODRICH, Caspar Frederick, naval officer, was boriL in I'liiladeljiliia, Pa., Jan. 7, 1847; son of William and Sarah Anne (Bearden) Goodrich, and grandson of James and Elizabeth (Bulkeley) Goodrich of Connecticut, and of R. B. and Amy (Cooke) Bearden of Knoxville, Tenn. His pater- nal ancestors begin in America with Ensign Wil- liam Goodrich, and the Rev. Gershom Bulkeley of Wethersfield, Conn., 1635, and his first maternal ancestor in America was Richard Cocke of the Virginia House of Burgesses. Caspar attended Russell's school at New Haven, Conn., 1859-61, and was graduated at the U.S. naval academy, Newport, R.I.. in 1864 with tlie highest standing

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in his class. He served in the civil war, 1864-65, as acting midshipman, was made ensign, Dec. 1, 1866; lieutenant, March 13, 1868; lieutenant-com- mander, March 26, 1869; commander, Sept. 27, 1884, and captain, Sept. 16, 1897. He served on the staff of Lord Wolseley in the Egyptian campaign, 1882; was in charge of ordnance sliips at Washington, D.C., 1884 ; naval member of the Endicott forti- fication board, 1885 ; in charge of the tur- pedo station, New- port, R.I., 1886-89, and president of Naval war college, 1897-98. He com- manded the U.S.S. St. Louis from April to August, 1898, and the Newark from August, 1898. On May 18, 1898, he was the first to engage the batteries at Santiago where he cut the telegraph cable under fire. He cut all the foreign telegraph cables to Cuba, brought Admiral Cervera north as a prisoner, seized Arroyo, Puerto Rico, and fought the battle of Manzanillo, Aug. 12, 1898, the last in the war with Spain. The place was ready to surrender to him, and the letter of surrender was signed when the news of the armistice reached him by cable. He became a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States in 1898 and of the Order of Foreign Wars the same j'ear. He joined the Army and Navy club, Washington, D.C., 1887; the Play- ers club. New York city, 1890 ; the Century asso- ciation, 1891 ; the Metropolitan club, 1893, and the New York yacht club, 1894. He was maiTied, Sept. 4, 1873, to Eleanor Slilnor. Yale conferred upon him the honorary degree of M.A. in 1888. He published Beport on Operations in Effijpt in 1SS2, and contributed to the Proceedings of the Naval institute, of which he became gold med- alist.

GOODRICH, Charles Augustus, clergyman, was born in Ridgefield, Conn., in 1790. He was graduated from Yale in 1813, and four years later was ordained a minister of the Congregational church. He held a pastorate in Worcester, Mass., 1816-30 ; in Berlin, Conn., 1830^8, and then took charge of a congregation in Hartford, Conn. He was at one time a member of the state senate and held other public offices. In collaboration with his brother, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, he wrote several books for the young, and is also the author of: View of Bdiriions (1829); Lives of the Signers (1829-36) ; History of the United States of