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Goodwin,
Edwin J. One of the scientific farmers
of this locality who has succeeded through his ingenuity and close application
to advanced methods of agriculture is Edwin J. Goodwin, who was born in
Pennsylvania, February 11, 1873. He is the son of Dr. Eugene A. and Sarah Louise
(Smith) Goodwin, the father born at Hallowell, Maine, April 10, 1831, and the
mother was born at Hackettstown, New Jersey, July 8, 1841. They grew up in the
East, received their education and were married there, immigrating to Newton,
Jasper County, Iowa, in the fall of 1878. The
father was a successful physician and for years was one of the best known in
this locality. His death occurred
in Marshall County, Iowa, on October 18, 1910, and his wife died in Jasper
County on April 18, 1904. Doctor Goodwin was graduated from the Long Island
Hospital and the New York College of Medicine, also from the University of
Michigan College of Medicine, class of 1871, being a colleague of the well-known
Dr. Perry Engle, mentioned elsewhere in the work. The subject has the two
diplomas awarded by these institutions to his father. Doctor Goodwin served in
the Civil war, having enlisted in the Ninety-ninth New York Volunteer Infantry,
on June 14, 1861, and after a very praiseworthy record, he was discharged on
July 2, 1864. His family consisted
of two children: Edwin J., of this sketch, being the sole survivor; the eldest
child, a daughter, Mrs. Edith May Atkinson, who was born in Bethlehem, New
Jersey, June 23, 1868, died in Des Moines, Iowa, February 17, 1896. Edwin
J. Goodwin was five years old when he came with his parents to Jasper County in
1878 and here he grew to manhood and received his education, and here he has
continued to reside. He lived in
Newton one year and there attended the public schools, then moved with the
family to near Old Baxter and attended the rural schools there. He supplemented
his graded schoolwork with two years' study in Highland Park College, Des
Moines, in 1896 and 1897, after which he returned to the farm where he has since
devoted his energies. Mr.
Goodwin was married on January 23, 1901, to Genevieve A. Cool, who was born in
Jasper County, Iowa, January 27, 1882. She was reared here, attended the local
schools and has always resided in this County.
She is the daughter of Peter J. and Lucina B. (Stone) Cool,
the father born in Freeport, Illinois, July 1, 1852, and the mother was born in
Wisconsin, June 16, 1860. He came
with his parents to Jasper County, Iowa, in 1853 and was one of the pioneers of
the County. The parents of Mrs.
Goodwin both live in Baxter, a well-known and influential family here for over a
half-century. Mrs. Goodwin was the third in
order of birth in a family of six children, namely:
Mrs. Agnes Workman, born December 15, 1878, of Baxter; Mrs. Leota Allen,
born August 12, 1880, lives near Baxter; Mrs. Winifred Curyea, born December 16,
1883, is living at Parker, South Dakota; Mrs. Alphone Gallagher, born August 2,
1887, is living at home; Mrs. Ethel Dodd, born November 30, 1891, lives in
Marshall County. All these children
were born and reared in Jasper County. After the death
of Mr. Goodwin's sister, he took into his home his niece, Edith May Akinson, who
was born on February 12, 1896, who has been educated in the rural schools of
this community and will enter the Baxter high school in the fall of 1912. Mr. Goodwin owns
forty acres of good land in Independence, which he is rapidly placing under
modern improvements, and he has a pleasant home. Politically, he is a
Republican. He has been secretary of the board of education of
Independence Township for a number of years.
He belongs to Baxter Lodge No. 168, Knights of Pythias, of Baxter.
He and his wife are members of Baxter Temple No. 202, Pythian Sisters,
and they are members of the Congregational Church at Baxter. Mrs. Goodwin is
a lady of talent along musical lines and for some time has been a popular
instructor in that branch of the fine arts, the piano being her specialty, for
which she has well qualified herself. In addition to the work with competent
teachers in this community, she supplemented this with one year's work in the
Grinnell College Conservatory of Music. These
are popular young people in all circles of their community, representing as they
do a splendid type of our best citizenship. The Past and Present of Jasper County,
Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, 1912 B.F. Bowen Co., Indianapolis, IN, p.
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