Montrose County CO Archives Biographies.....Goddard, W.E. 1837 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     W.E. Goddard, head of the firm of Goddard & Son, prominent ranchers and

stock-growers of Montrose county, is a native of Maryland, born in 1837.  His

parents were John and Eliza (Abel) Goddard, also natives of that state, where

the mother died in 1837 when her son W.E., the last born of eleven children, was

eleven days old.  After her death a few months the father moved his family to

Illinois, and settling on a farm in Bond county, lived and labored there until

the fall of 1859, when he went to live with one of his daughters in St. Louis. 

He remained with her until his death, in 1861, and his remains were buried in

that city.  On the Illinois homestead W.E. Goddard grew to manhood and in the

district schools of the vicinity he acquired a limited education.  He learned

the business of farming and raising stock by practical experience in every

branch of it, and this has been his occupation almost ever since he started in

life.  His first independent move was to take charge of his father’s farm when

he was twenty-two years of age.  After managing this for a time he went to

Montana in the spring of 1865 and engaged in prospecting and mining for three

years.  Returning then to Illinois, he married Miss Sarah Scott, a native of

Tennessee who emigrated to Illinois with her parents when she was young.  The

marriage was solemnized on January 1, 1869, and the young couple lived in

Illinois until the death of the wife, in 1876, after which Mr. Goddard made his

home with a brother in St. Charles county, Missouri, until 1879.  He then came

to Colorado and after passing seven years at Silverton and vicinity, he moved to

the place he now occupies, purchasing it as unimproved land.  Here he started an

industry in general farming and stock-growing in partnership with his son, E. A.

Goddard, the survivor of two born to him in his marriage, the other one, William

M., having died in childhood.  This enterprise has grown through judicious care

and good management to large proportions, a high rank as to products and profits

of considerable magnitude.  The place at the same time has been furnished with

good buildings of every needed kind for the business, and been made one of the

most comfortable and restful country homes in this part of the state.  The firm

produces a high grade of Shorthorn cattle, omitting no effort to keep the

standard high, the breed pure and the condition of the cattle good.  They also

have a large and thrifty orchard of apple and peach trees from which they have

abundant yields of excellent fruit.  Secure against the winds of adversity,

sheltered from the storms of life, at peace with all the world and firmly fixed

in the good will and esteem of their neighbors and their fellow citizens

generally, the father and son live on their comfortable estate and find

occupation for all their time and energies in their expanding business except

what are required for social duties and the claims of the community on them in a

public way.  To these they give a ready and serviceable response, performing

with alacrity, cheerfulness and showing a wholesome and helpful interest in the

general welfare of their neighborhood, county and state.

Additional Comments:
From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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