Goodrich, Hubbard Warner; 1905 Bio, Eagle County, Colorado http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/eagle/bios/goodrhhw.txt --------------------------------------- Donated April 2001 Transcribed by Judy Crook from the book: Progressive Men of Western Colorado Published 1905, A.W. Bowen & Co., Chicago, Ill. --------------------------------------- Hubbard Warner Goodrich This leading merchant of Eagle, whose business capacity and enterprise have made him successful, and whose sterling manhood and elevated citizenship have made him universally respected, was born far from the scenes of his present activity, and reared to the age of seventeen amid conditions far different from those which now surround him. But taught by an exacting and exigent experience to adapt himself to circumstances as he found them, and having, moreover, great native force of character and business acumen of a high order, he has felt at home in all the trying situations of a varied career, and made the most of his opportunities on every heath where he has pitched his tent. His life began at Pittsford, Rutland county, Vermont, on February 17, 1845, and he received a good business education. His parents, David and Sally E. (Keller) Goodrich, were born in Vermont and moved to the state of New York in 1850, where they died, the father on March 19, 1865, and the mother in Maine in 1882. After leaving school, and just when "manhood was darkening on his downy cheek," in 1862, at the age of seventeen, stirred by the armed resistance to the Union on the part of the southern states, and obeying one of the early calls for volunteers to defend it, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Eighteenth New York Infantry as a private soldier. He served until June 13, 1865, when he was mustered out at Richmond, Virginia, with the rank of sergeant, to which he had risen by meritorious conduct on many a gory field. He then learned the trade of a carpenter, and worked at it until 1869, when he started to keep good hotels in Vermont during the summer and in southern Florida during the winter, continuing this line of occupation ten years. In 1879 he came to Colorado and located in Park county. There he turned his attention to prospecting, the almost universal occupation of the region, and, in partnership with Dr. Gilpin and W.K. Goodrich, discovered the Mollie mine, which, after they sold it, proved to be a good producer. In 1881 he moved to Eagle county and, locating at Eagle, began working at his trade, building many of the best dwellings and business houses in the place during the six years he devoted to the trade there. In 1887 he was appointed postmaster of Redcliff, Eagle county, and he held the office until 1892. In 1886 he was elected county commissioner to fill a vacancy caused by the death of William Nottingham, and this important office he filled for one year with satisfaction and advantage to the people. But prior to his appointment, that is, in 1895, he opened a merchandising establishment at Redcliff which he conducted until 1898. In that year he sold the business and assumed the management of the mercantile interests of the Tierney Merchandise Company at Basalt, the proprietor being the founder of the business there. A year later he returned to Redcliff and again started a store which he kept on his own account until he consolidated with the Ten-Mile Mercantile Company, the name being changed to the Redcliff & Gilman Mercantile Company, with which he was connected until 1901, when he sold his interest in the concern. In 1902 he was the candidate of the Republican party for county treasurer, but was defeated at the election owing to the large adverse majority in the county, which, however, his personal popularity greatly reduced. He then moved to Eagle and started the business he is now conducting, a general wholesale and retail trade in hardware, meats, groceries and dry goods. In this he has been eminently successful and has become the leading merchant of the county. Politically he is a stanch Republican and fraternally a devoted Freemason. On June 3, 1886, he was married to Miss Rosella A. Rugg, a native of Massachusetts, who died on December 9, 1895. Mr. Goodrich was married October 19, 1904, at Eagle, to Mrs. Frances B. (Bridge) Richter, a native of Carroll county, Indiana. Mr. Goodrich has one brother, Willis K. Goodrich, who is now living at New Bedford, Massachusetts. There were eight children in his father's family, of whom two sacrificed their lives to the Union cause during the Civil war, and another who served in that conflict has since died. There are three sisters living, Mrs. E.A. Green, of Essex Junction, Vermont; Mrs. Mary A. Wood, of Middle Grove, New York; and Mrs. E.A.Goodwin, of Garland, Maine. Their father was a farmer by occupation, an ardent and active Republican in politics, and a prominent and highly respected citizen. =================================================== Contributed for use by the USGenWeb Archive Project (http://www.usgenweb.org) and by the COGenWeb Archive Project USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access.