President Cleveland solicitor-general of the United States, and held the office for several months. He was for a time acting attorney-general but failed to receive confirmation by the senate, owing to opposition organized by his political enemy, Senator Mahone. As a representative in the 46th congress he was the author of the bill for the erection of the Yorktown monument and as president of the Yorktown centennial associa tion he directed the celebration in 1881. While in congress he was for two sessions chairman of the committee on education and was prominent in the educational work of the state as member of the board of visitors for the University of Virginia, and of the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Virginia, and was chosen one of the professors in the law department of the National university, Washington, D.C. He practised law in Washington, D.C., until 1893, when he was appointed a member of the Chilian claims commission.

GOODE, Patrick Gaines, representative, was born in Cornwall parish, Charlotte county, Va., May 10, 1798; son of Philip and Rebekah (Hayes) Goode; grandson of Samuel and Mary (Collier) Goode; great-grandson of Samuel and Mary Armistead (Burwell) Goode, and great grandson of Samuel and Martha (Jones) Goode. He removed with his parents at an early age to Wayne township in the new state of Ohio, was educated at Xenia academy and in Philadelphia, and was admitted to the bar in 1821. He practised in Madison, Ind., until 1828 and then in Shelby county, Ohio; served in the 32d and 33d general assemblies of Ohio as a representative, 1833-35; was a Whig representative in the 25th, 26th and 27th congresses, 1837-43, being chairman of the committee on Revolutionary claims; was judge of the U.S. circuit court, 1844-51, and thereafter practised law and also preached the gospel as a member of the Central Ohio conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was early an abolitionist. He married Mary, daughter of Gen. Benjamin Whiteman, pioneer, and Maj. Benjamin Whiteman Goode, their son, was brigade quartermaster, Fifth division, Army of the Tennessee. Judge Goode died in Sidney, Ohio, Oct. 17, 1862. GOODE, Robert, patriot, was born at Whitby," Chesterfield county, Va., Feb. 8, 1743; son of Robert and Mary (Turpin) Goode. He was an elder brother of Samuel Goode, representative in the 6th U.S. congress, 1799-1801. He served as major and colonel in the Chesterfield militia in scouting service along the James river during the Revolutionary war and served as president of numerous courts-martial for the trial of spies and tories. He was an incorporator of " Academy of Arts and Sciences of the United

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States of America " projected in 1786 at Richmond, Va., under the patronage of the French academy of sciences. He was state director of public buildings and had charge of the completion of the state capitol at Richmond, Va. He was married to Sallie, daughter of Col. Richard Bland, delegate

to the Continental congress, 1774-75, the "Cato of the American Revolution." Colonel Goode died at "Whitby," Va., April 2, 1809.

GOODE, Samuel, representative, was born at "Whitby," Chesterfield county, Va., March 21, 1756; son of Robert and Mary (Turpin) Goode; grandson of Robert and Elizabeth (Curd) Goode, and great-grandson of John and Anne (Bennet) Goode. He was a lieutenant in the Chesterfield troop of horse during the Revolution and afterward colonel of militia for Mecklenburg. He was a member of the Virginia house of burgesses, 1779-83, and a representative in the 6th U.S. congress, 1799-1801. He was married in 1786, to Mary Armistead, daughter of Col. Lewis Burwell, and a great-granddaughter of Gov. Alexander Spotswood. He died in Mecklenburg county, Va., Nov. 14, 1822.

GOODE, Thomas, physician, was born in Mecklenburg county, Va., Oct. 31, 1789; son of Col. Samuel and Mary Armistead (Burwell) Goode. He was graduated in medicine at Edinburgh about 1810, lived in Botetourt county, 1825-33, and in Bath county, 1833-58, where he purchased and developed the Hot Springs and built a sanitarium at Buffalo Springs, Va., where Goode Hall was erected as a monument to his memory. He was married to Mary Ann Knok, a descendant from Pocahontas. He published The Invalid Guide to the Virginia Springs. He died at Buffalo Springs, Va., April 2, 1858.

GOODE, William Henry, educator, was born near Waynesville, Ohio, June 9, 1807; son of Philip and Rebekah (Hayes) Goode, and brother of Patrick Gaines Goode. He was educated by his father and at the Xenia academy. He was principal of the Gallatin county seminary, Kentucky, 1827-36; and of the New Albany seminary, Ind., 1836-42, and was the pioneer Methodist educator of Indiana. In 1836 he entered the ministry of the M. E. church, and in 1842 was transferred to the Arkansas conference and as principal of the Fort Coffee academy, began the work of education among the Choctaws. In 1844 he formed the Indian mission conference and soon after returned to Indiana, unwilling to follow his conference

into the pro-slavery wing of his church. After twelve years in the itinerancy and a year as president of Whitewater college, he was appointed superintendent of missions in Kansas and Nebraska, 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 the west. He traversed this territory from east to west twenty-seven times, visited all the frontier settlements in their infancy, and established missions among the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawnees and Kickapoos. His powers were virtually those of a bishop, and he placed more than one hundred ministers in permanent posts. In 1855 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 him in 1860 and the Colorado conference in 1864. The latter years of his life were passed at Richmond, Ind. He was forty years in the ministry, twenty-seven years a presiding 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, 1861-65, in the Mississippi campaigns, was captain in the 4th Iowa battery and was wounded at Pittsburg Landing. Dr. Goode died at Richmond, Ind., Dec. 16, 1879.

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GOODE, William Osborne, representative, was born at Inglewood," Mecklenburg county, Va., Sept. 16, 1798; son of Capt. John Chesterfield 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 college, a member of the Virginia house of burgesses and, like his own father, a wealthy planter. The son was graduated at William and Mary in 1819, and began law practice at Boydton in 1821. He entered the state legislature and as an advocate of gradual emancipation took part in the debates in 1832, and was a delegate to the State reform conventions. He served as a representative in the 27th congress, 1841-43, again in the 33d, 34th and 35th congresses, 1853-59, and was re-elected to the 36th congress but died before taking his seat. In the interim of his congressional terms he served in the state legislature and was thrice 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 constitution into operation. He was married to Sarah Maria, daughter of Thomas Massie. He died at Boydton, Va., July 3, 1859.

GOODELL, Abner Cheney, inventor, was born in North Orange, Mass., Feb. 9, 1805; son of Zina and Joanna (Cheney) Goodell; grandson of Joseph and Ann (Hopkins) Goodell, and of Ebenezer and Abigail (Thompson) Cheney; greatgrandson of Joseph and Elizabeth (Goodell), great grandson of Joseph and Mary, great3 grandson of Zachariah and Elizabeth (Beauchamp), and great grandson of Robert and Katherine (Kilnam) Goodell of Dennington, Suffolk, England, who sailed from Ipswich, England, April 30, 1634, and settled in Salem, Mass. Abner received a common school education and worked as a machinist in Boston and at Cambridgeport, 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 helped 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, Rumford professor at Harvard, 1834–45. He also perfected 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 engine, invented by Charles Grafton Page, which ran between the cities of Baltimore, Md., and Washington, D.C. Here also he invented machines for making kegs; for splitting and pointing shoepegs; 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.

GOODELL, Henry Hill, educator, was born in Constantinople, Turkey, May 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 volunteer army as 2d and 1st lieutenant and afterward on the staff of Colonel Bissell in the 19th army corps, 1862–63. He was professor of modern languages at Williston 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 Biographical Record of the Class of Sixty-two of Amherst (1873); Compilation of Historic Fiction (1876); and numerous contributions to periodical literature.

GOODELL, Thomas Dwight, educator, was born in Ellington, Conn., Nov. 8, 1854; son of Francis and S. Louisa (Burpee) Goodell; grand

son of Thomas Goodell, and a descendant of Robert Goodell, who came to Salem, Mass.., in 1634. He was graduated from Yale in 1877. He was a classical teacher in the high school at Hartford, Conn., 1877-88; studied in Germany and Greece, 1886-87, and was professor in the American school of classical studies in Athens, 1894-95. He was elected professor of Greek at Yale college in 1888. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Yale in 1884. He is the author of The Greek in English (1886); and Greek Lessons (1892); and of contributions to philogical and literary periodi

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GOODELL, William, missionary, was born in Templeton, Mass., Feb. 14, 1792; son of William and Phebe (Newton) Goodell; grandson of Nathan and Dinah (Weeks) Goodell of Marlboro, and a descendant of John and Elizabeth (Witt) Goodell of Lynn, Mass., and of Robert and Elizabeth Goodell, who settled in Salem, Mass., in 1634. He was graduated from Dartmouth, A.B., 1817; A.M., 1820, and was graduated from Andover theological seminary in 1820. He was agent for the A.B.C.F.M., 1821-22; was ordained at New Haven, Conn., Sept. 12, 1822, and was missionary at the island of Malta where he studied the oriental languages, 1822-23. He was missionary at Beirut, 1823-26, and among the Armenians in Constantinople, Turkey, 1826-65. At Beirut he suffered from Arab robbers and persecutors and was obliged to leave the country when the Greeks were repulsed in March, 1826. During his entire missionary life he was obliged to change his residence to insure his personal safety, no less than thirty-three times. He translated the Scriptures from the original Greek and Hebrew into Armenio-Turkish, completing the Old Testament in 1841 and the New Testament in 1843, finishing its revision in 1863. He was married in 1822 to Abigail P., daughter of Lemuel Davis, and they had two sons born in the orient, William, a physician, and Henry Hill, educator, besides two other sons and five daughters. He returned to the United States in 1865 where he wrote for the New York Observer " Reminiscences of the Missionary's Early Life." He received the degree of D.D. from Hamilton and from Rutgers in 1854. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 18, 1867. GOODELL, William, physician, was born on the Island of Malta, Oct. 17, 1829; son of the Rev. Dr. William and Abigail P. (Davis) Goodell, and grandson of William and Phebe (Newton) Goodell of Templeton, and of Lemuel and Eunice (Sherwin) Davis of Holden, Mass. He was fitted for college in Constantinople, Turkey, and was graduated with honors from Williams in 1851. He received his M. D. degree from Jefferson medical college in 1854 and practised in Constantinople until 1860. He was married in Smyrna, Turkey, to

Caroline Darlington, daughter of Judge T. S. Bell, Sept. 4, 1857. In 1860 he engaged in the practice of medicine at Westchester, Pa., removing to Philadelphia in 1864. From 1874 to 1893 he was professor of gynecology in the University of Pennsylvania. He was a fellow of the College of physicians at Philadelphia and a member of several medical societies in the United States and Europe. He received the degree of M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1871. published writings include more than one hundred contributions to medical periodicals, and Lessons in Gynecology (1878). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 27, 1894.

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GOODFELLOW, Edward, scientist, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 23, 1828; son of James and Mary (Redman) Goodfellow. He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1848, Greek salutatorian. He was appointed to the U.S. coast survey in August, 1848, as aid. In 1860 he was made assistant in the U.S. coast and geodetic survey, and was executive assistant, 1861-62, and again, 1875-82. He served as captain in the 45th regiment, U.S. colored troops, in 1864. He was elected a member of the American philosophical society, 1871; of the Philosophical society, Washington, D. C., and a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. In 1882 he assumed the editorship of the Annual Reports of the U.S. coast and geodetic survey, the appendices thereto and the bulletins of the survey. He was married in 1871 to Julia C., daughter of Thomas T. Smiley, M.D., of Philadelphia, Pa.

GOODFELLOW, Henry, soldier, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 27, 1833; son of James and Mary (Redman) Goodfellow. He was a member of the expedition of Dr. Kane, to search for the Sir John Franklin expedition in the Arctic region, 1853-55, and received medals from the British government. He was admitted to the bar of Philadelphia in 1859 and extended his practice in 1861 to the U.S. circuit court. He entered the Federal army in that year as captain of the 26th Penn.

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uously with the Army of the Potomac, receiving in March, 1865, brevets of lieutenant-colonel and colonel for gallant conduct at Gettysburg, in the Wilderness, and at Spottsylvania. He was ap

pointed major and judge-advocate of volunteers, Nov. 28, 1865, and was transferred Feb. 25, 1867, to the corps of judge-advocates, U.S. A., with the rank of major. In 1866 he was married to Eleanor, daughter of Robert Brent of Washington, D.C. He was judge-advocate of the department of the Missouri at the time of his death, at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., Dec. 29, 1885.

GOODHUE, Benjamin, senator, was born in Salem, Mass., Oct. 1, 1748. He was graduated at Harvard in 1766, and received his 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 represented the Salem district in the 1st, 2d and 3d Federal congresses, 1789-95. In collaboration with Representative Thomas Fitzsimmons of Philadelphia he drew up a code of revenue laws most of which became permanently incorporated 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 commerce. He resigned his seat in the senate, Dec. 19, 1800, and was succeeded by Jonathan Mason. He died in Salem, Mass., July 28, 1814.

GOODKNIGHT, James Lincoln, clergyman and educator, was born near Mt. Aerial, Allen county, Ky., Aug. 24, 1846; son of Isaac and Lucinda (Billingsley) Goodknight, and a grandson 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-grandfather, Michael, came from the lowlands of Germany to Philadelphia about 1735, and settled at Rockbridge, Va., about 1737; removing thence to Mecklenburg county, N.C, where he was a member of the Meck

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which adopted the first Declaration of Independence. He removed from North Carolina to Harlaus Station, Mercer county, Ky. His son, Isaac, is said to have been the first white male child born in Kentucky. James L. Goodknight was graduated from Cumberland university, Tenn., in 1871. He was a teacher at Little Muddy, Ky., 1871-72; was ordained a Presbyterian minister, Aug. 9, 1872, and was joint pastor at Little Muddy, Pilot Knob, and Gasper River, Ky., 1872-76. 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 PanPresbyterian 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 delegate to the World's Sunday-school convention in London, England, in 1889. He took a post-graduate course and first honors in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1889-90; received the degree of D.D. from Waynesburg college, Pa., in 1890; took a post-graduate course in philosophy, pedagogy and biology at Jena university, Germany, 1890-91, and took six months of travel study in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Turkey, 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 university at Morgantown, W.Va., 1895-97. He is the author of numerous contributions on religious, social, political and educational questions to periodical literature.

GOODNIGHT, Isaac Herschel, representative, was born in Allen county, Ky., Jan. 31, 1849; son of Isaac and Lucinda (Billingsley) Goodknight. In 1870 he removed to Franklin, Ky. He was graduated from Cumberland university, Lebanon, Ky., in 1872; attended the law department of the same university till 1873; was admitted to the bar in 1874, and settled to practice in Franklin. He represented Simpson county in the state legislature in 1877-78, and was a Democratic representative from Kentucky in the 51st, 52d and 53d congresses, 1889-95. 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 grandson 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 Providence seminary, R.I., 1848-55. He went to Kansas 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 president of the institution, 1861-62. He was

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member of the state legislature, 1862; state superintendent of public instruction, 1862-66; and commissioner for the Kansas state agricultural college, 1867-73, and for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway company, 1869-76. He was a charter member of the Kansas state teachers' association; a member of the State historical society, 1885-94; 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 honorary degree of M.A. from Wesleyan university in 1845, and that of Ph.D. from Baker university, 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 22, 1828; son of Levi and Cynthia (Whitmore) Goodrich, and grandson of William Goodrich. He was graduated at Trinity college, A.B., 1852; A.M., 1855, and at Berkeley divinity school in 1855. He was ordained a deacon in 1853, 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 young men for the ministry. He was secretary 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 committee, and represented it in the centennial convention of the Episcopal church in Philadelphia, Pa., 1883. He was a member of the general missionary council of his church and a member of the federate council of the five dioceses of New York. On Dec. 27, 1847, he was married to Elizabeth A. Meigs of Hartford, Conn., who died Nov. 26, 1897. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Hamilton in 1867. Besides contributing to religious publications he published a service and tune book for Sunday schools and assisted in compiling a hymnal for choirs and congregations. He died at Trenton, N. Y., Dec. 16, 1896. GOODRICH, Caspar Frederick, naval officer, was born in Philadelphia, 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 (Cocke) Bearden of Knoxville, Tenn. His paternal ancestors begin in America with Ensign William 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 the 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 12, 1868; lieutenant-commander, 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 ships at Washington, D.C., 1884; naval member of the Endicott fortification board, 1885; in charge of the torpedo station, Newport, R.I., 1886-89, and president of Naval war college, 1897-98. He commanded 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 year. He joined the Army and Navy club, Washington, D.C., 1887; the Players club, New York city, 1890; the Century association, 1891; the Metropolitan club, 1893, and the New York yacht club, 1894. He was married, Sept. 4, 1873, to Eleanor Milnor. Yale conferred upon him the honorary degree of M. A. in 1888. He published Report on Operations in Egypt in 1882, and contributed to the Proceedings of the Naval institute, of which he became gold medalist.

GOODRICH, Charles Augustus, clergyman, was born in Ridgefield, Conn., in 1790. He was graduated from Yale in 1812, and four years later was ordained a minister of the Congregational church. He held a pastorate in Worcester, Mass.. 1816-20; in Berlin, Conn., 1820-48, 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 Religions (1829): Lives of the Signers (1829-36); History of the United States of