Izard Co., AR - Biographies - Dr. Thomas K. Goodman

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Dr. Thomas K. Goodman, of the mercantile firm of Goodman & Schenck, of Calico
Rock, was born in Polk County. Mo., in 1849, and is one of nine surviving
members of a family of twelve children, eleven of whom lived to be grown, born
to the marriage of Sampson Goodman and Sarah Lyngar, of English and French
descent, respectively, and natives of Tennessee. The father removed to Polk
County, Mo., when the country was almost a wilderness, and resided in this
county until his death, which occurred in 1888, at the age of eighty-two years.
His wife died in 1869. He was a farmer and stock raiser of moderate means, and,
although a man of not much education, he possessed sound judgment, and was an
individual of more than ordinary intelligence. He and his wife were married in
1827, and were members of the Baptist Church for a number of years. Their
children were as follows: F. M., who died in Missouri, in 1888, leaving a
family; Elizabeth, wife of George Slatten; John F., James, who went to
California in 1852, and has not been heard from since; Isaac J., Newton J., Mary
E., wife of S. C. Chumbley; Harvey C., Thomas K., Edward M. Dr. Thomas K.
Goodman received his early education in the common schools of his native county,
and afterward completed his education in the academy at Greenfield, Mo., which
institution he entered in 1866. He began studying medicine at Springfield in the
following year under Dr. W. A. Hyde, and in the spring of 1879 graduated from
the Homeopathic Medical College of Missouri, at St. Louis, but previous to
graduating had practiced in Newton and Izard Counties, Ark., having located in
the latter county in 1872. He continued his practice here until 1885, when he
embarked in the mercantile business with Dr. Schenck [see sketch]. Upon coming
to this county the Doctor was rather poor financially, but he now owns 248 acres
of improved land, and his interest in his mercantile establishment. He is a
Republican in his political views, is a member of the A. F. & A. M., and he and
his wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Greenhaw, and whom he married in 1871,
are the parents of three children: Oliver S., Homer H H. and Albert A. T.