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* GOOCH. 33 with the chemical laboratory of the Geological Survey at Newport as a special agent of the Tenth Census, and in 1881 was appointed chemist to the Northern Transcontinental Survey. Hia writings include contributions to the Memoirs of- tlic Xatioiial Academy of Science, to the American Chemical Journal, and to Tschermack's ilineralische Mittheiliingen. GOOCH, Sir William, Bart. (1681-1751). All English soldier and colonial Governor in .Uncrica. He was born in Yarmouth, served with distinction in the English Army, and from 1727 to 1749 was Governor of Virginia. He -was a man of considerable ability, and his administra- tion was, on the wliole, a wise and prosperous one. In 1740 he led the Virginia troops which accompanied Admiral Vernon on his futile expe- dition against Cartagena, New Granada. On his return to England in 1749 he was made a baronet. GOOD, James Isaac ( 1850— ). An American clergyman and Church historian, born at York, Pa. He graduated at Lafayette College in 1872, and at Union Theological Seminary in 1875. He was settled in Reformed Church pastorates in York. Pa., and Philadelphia until 1890, in which year he became pastor of a church at Reading, and professor of Church history in Ursinus College at Collegeville. Pa. In 1891 he was chosen dean of the Theological Seminary at that place. His publications include: The Origin of the Reformed Church in Germany ; The History of the Reformed Church in Ocrmany ; Rambles Around Reformed Lands; and History of the Reformed Church in the United States. GOOD, John Mason (1704-1827). An Eng- lish physician and author, born at Epping, in Sussex. In 1784 he practiced as surgeon in Sud- bury, but removed to London in 1793, with the view of obtaining literary employment. He pub- lished various poems, translations, and profes- sional treatises. Of his original poems we need Bay nothing. Among his translations are: The Sony of Songs, or Sacred Idyls, from the Hebrew (1803) ; The Nature of Things, from Lucretius (1805) ; and The Book of Job (1812). His chief professional works are: The Study of Medicine (4 vols., 1822), and The Book of Nature, a series of lectures at the Surrey Institution, 1811-12 (1826). He likewise published, in conjunction with Olinthus Gregory, a dictionary of the arts and sciences completed in twelve volumes (1813). The translation of Lucretius, valuable for its parallel passages, is included in Bohn's Classical Library. He died in London. For his Life and fVriliiiys. consult Gregory (London, 1828). GOOD'AXE, Elaine (1863—) and Dora Read ( 1860 — ). American poets. They are sis- ters, and were born in Berkshire County, Mass. The .sisters showed remarkable poetic precocity. Poems of Elaine ap]ieared as early as her eighth year, in »S7.!/ Farm Life, a monthly conducted by herself. In 1877 verses of both sisters began to appear in the Saint Nicholas magazine, and their contributions to periodicals have since been fre- quent. The more noteworthy are collected in Apple Blossoms (1S7S) ; In Berkshire u-ith the Wildflou-ers (1879) ; All Round the Year (1880) ; and Verses from Sky Farm (1880). In 1881 Elaine published The Journal of a Farmer's Daughter. In 1883 she became teacher in the Hampton (Virginia) Institute for the education GOODALL. of Indians and negroes, and in 1885 made a tour of observation through the Sioux Reservation. In the next year she received a Government ap- pointment to teach Indians at White River Camp in Dakotir, and in 1890 was made superintendent of all Indian schools in that State. In the next year she married Dr. C. A. Eastman, an Indian. Dora wrote also Heralds of Easter (1887). GOODALE, George Lincoln (1839—). An American botanist, born at Saco, Maine. He graduated at Amherst College in 1800, and at the Harvard Medical School in 1863. He practiced his profession at Portland, Maine, until 1807,. when he was appointed professor of natural science and applied chemistry at Bowdoin. In 1872 he was appointetl instructor in botany, and university lecturer on vegetable physiology at Harvard, and in the following j'ear was made as- sistant professor of vegetable physiology there. In 1878 he was elected to the chair of botany, and in 1888 was chosen Fisher professor of nat- ural science, a chair formerly held by Asa Gray. He was appointed director of the Botanic Gar- den in 1879. In 1890 he was elected President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In addition to monographs and con- tributions to scientific journals, his publications include: Wild Flou:ers of North America ( 1882) ; Vegetable Physiology (1885); Vegetable His- tology (1885) : Useful Plants of the Future; and Concerning a Few Common Plants. GOOD'ALL. A family of English artists. Ed- ward (1795-1870) was a line-engraver chiefly known through his engravings of Turner's works, which he executed w'ith great delicacy and. beauty, and those of his son and pupil. Frederick ( 1822- 1904). a genre painter in oil and water-color, born in London. His first oil painting was entitled "Finding the Dead Body of a Miner by Torch- light," for which the Society of Arts awarded him the silver medal. During the summers of 1838-42. he visited Normandy and Brittany, and in 1839, when but seventeen years of age, he exhibited his first picture at the Royal Academy, "French Soldiers Playing Cards in a Cabaret." His "Entering Church." as well as "The Return from a Christening," which received a prize of £50 from the British Institution, and others of his early ])ictures, were purchased by Mr. Wells. "The Ti'red Soldier," exhibited in 1842, was pur- chased by JTr. Vernon, and is now in the Vernon Gallery. Some of his French scenes are "Veteran of the Old Guard Describing his Battles;" "La Fete du Mariage" (The Marriage Feast) ; "The Wounded Soldier Returned to His Family;" "The Conscript." In 1844 he went for subjects to Ire- land, and subsequently visited North Wales. His "Village Festival" exhibited in 1847, now in the National Gallery, "Raising the Maypole" (1851), and "Crannier at the Traitor's Gate" (1850) are among the best of his English subjects. In 1853 he was elected associate, and in 1863 member of the Royal Academy. In 1857-59 he visited Venice and Egypt, and afterwards painted many Italian and Oriental subjects, including "Reciting Ta-s- so" (1859), "Rising of the Nile" (1865)', and "Flight into Egs-pt" (1885). Among his latest works are "Leading the Flock" (1894), and the "Thames from Windsor Castle" ( 1890) . — Howard GoODALL (1830-89). a younger brother of Fred- erick. He wa.s a painter in water-color, and be- came member of the Water-Color Society in 1802.