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GOODWIN

attorney in Chicago, 111., 1802-64; and U.S. cir- cuit court commissioner for Illinois, 1861-90. He was president of the board of trustees of the Illinois eye and ear infirmary at Chicago, 1S71-96. He is the author of Janus Fitts and his t>o7is in the American EenoluUou (1882); The Dearborns (1884); The Lord's Table (1885); Memorial of Ed- ioin C. Lamed (ISSQ); Pri>rhi,-ln1 />/«■; »res (1886); Memorial of llobert C. Wiittlirnii ^1S!)4); Memorial of Arthur Brooks (1895): and Mrnwrial of Thomas Hiifl/K'S (1897).

GOODWIN, Daniel Raynes, educator, was born in North Berwick. Maine, April 12, 1811; sou of Samuel and Anna (Gerrish) Goodwin. He was prepared for college at Berwick and Limerick academies and was graduated from Bowdoin in 1832. After teaching at Hallowell academy, 1832-33, and studying a year at An- dover theological seminary, he was appointed tutor in modern languages and librarian at Bowdoin, and on being advanced to the chair of modern languages to succeed Prof. Heurj' W. Longfellow, he continued his studies in Europe, principally at Paris and Heidelberg. In 1835 he returned to his chair at Bowdoin and was made librarian of the college librarj' in 1888, filling both positions until 1853. He was married, Jan. 2, 1838, to Mary Randall, daughter of Sanuiel and Hannah Merrick. While at Bowdoin he was ordained a deacon in the P.E. church, July 13, 1847, and a priest, Sept. 10, 1848. He was presi- dent of Trinity college, Hartford, Conn., from July 37, 1853, to June 27, 1860, and professor of ethics and metaphysics there, 1858-60; provost and professor of intellectual and moral philosophy in the University of Pennsylvania, 1860-68. He was connected with the P.E. divinity school in Philadelpliia as professor of apologetics, 1862-65; of systematic divinity, 186.5-68; as dean, 1868-84, and again as professor of systematic divinity, 1884-90. For twenty-five years he was a delegate to every general convention of his church in the United States; was elected a member of the American philosophical society in 1861; and was also a member of the American academy of arts and sciences and of the American Oriental society. He received the degree of D.D. from Bowdoin in 1853 and that of LL.D from the University of Penn.s\-lvania in 1868. He is the author of manj' pamphlets and papers upon various ethical and religious subjects and also of Xi'le.t on the Revision of the Xeio Testament Version (1883); and Christian Eschatology (1885). He died in Phil- adelphia, Pa., March 15, 1890.

GOODWIN, Frederic Jordan, clergyman, was born in South Berwick,:Maine, April 30, 1813. He was graduate! from Bowdoin in 1833; studied theology at Bangor, Maine, 1833-33: Andqver, Mass., 1833-34; and was graduated at the Gen-

eral theological seminary in 1836. He was ordained deacon July 3, 1836, and priest, July 2, 1837. He was professor of languages at Bristol college. Pa., 1836-37; professor ad interim of Latin in the University of the city of New York, 1837; was i-ector of St. George's church. Flush- ing, N.Y., 1837-44; rector of the church of the Holy Trinity at Middletown, Conn., 1845-73; and professor of the evidences of Christianity at .Berkeley divinity school, 1854^72. Trinity con- ferred upon him the degree of D.D. in 1854. He diel in MidJletoivn. Conn., Feb. 29, 1872.

GOODWIN, Ichabod, governor of New Hamp- shire, was boru in Berwick, Maine, Oct. 10, 1796; son of Samuel and Nancy Thompson (Gerrish) Goodwin. He attended .South Berwick academy and left there to enter the office of a merchant and shipowner in Portsmouth, N.H. Subse- quently he became supercargo and finally master of a ship. In 1832 he settled in Portsmouth as a mer- chant. He served six times in the New Hampshire legisla- ture; was a delegate- at-large to the Whig national conventions that nominated Clay, Taylor and Scott for the presidency; was

vice-president of the o^/<v^^ ^^^-v-t^j:^^,^^ first two conventions;

and governor of New Hampshire, 1859-61. In 1861, when President Lincoln called for troops, the legislature of New Hampshire not being in session. Governor Goodwin accepted §680,000. tendered by the city banks and raised and equipped ten regiments. He was an active member of several railroad and other corpora- tions and interested in charitable institutions. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred upon him by Dartmouth college in 1857. He died in Portsmoutli. N.H.. July 4. 1882.

GOODWIN, Maud Wilder, author, was born at Ballston Spa, N.Y., June 5, 1856; daughter of John Nickels and Delia (Farley) Wilder; grand- daughter of Joseph and Mar3' (Nickels) Wilder and of Joseph antl Elizabeth (Thomas) Farley; and seventh in descent from John Alden and Priscilla MuUins. In 1879 she was married to Almon Goodwin, a lawyer in New York city. Slie was co-editor with Blanche Wilder Bellamy of " Open Sesame," a collection of prose and poetry for school children (3 vols., 1890-93); and wrote " Historic New York," a series of papers with Alice Carrington Royce and Ruth Putnam (1897). She is the author of The Colonial Cava-