St Johns County FlArchives Biographies.....Goode, Obe P. April 14, 1881 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.119 The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present     

        OBE PIERCE GOODE was elected clerk of the Circuit Court of St. Johns
County in 1916. During six years previous to that he had been a judge of the
Municipal Court at St. Augustine. For more than a decade he has discerned the
actions and purposes of men, and it is generally recognized by his associates
that few men connected with the courts are better informed as to human nature.
With all his years of experience with the delinquent element of human society,
while it has sharpened his insight of the faults and guile of mankind, he has
preserved and constantly manifests a kindliness and sympathy in his dealings 
that make him esteemed and respected. His unfailing common sense saves him from
the pedantry of official position, and having been a close and thorough student
under the impetus of his own determination, he has become fully and practically
equipped to meet any emergency within the scope of his office.
	Judge Goode was born at Shellman, Georgia, April 14, 1881, and is a son 
of THOMAS SIDNEY and LOUISE (PIERCE) GOODE. THOMAS SIDNEY GOODE was born in 
Virginia, in 1830, but as a lad was taken by his parents to Georgia, where he 
was given a public school education. He began his career as a farmer, and 
gradually developed into a cotton warehouse owner. Through industry and good 
management made a success of his business affairs and was accounted one of the 
well-to-do men of his community at the time of his death in 1896, when he was 
sixty-six years of age. He was a democrat in his political views, but never
cared for public office. His fraternal affiliation was with the Masons, and his
religious faith, that of the Presbyterian Church, to which belongs also Mrs.
Goode, who was born in Georgia, in 1830, and died in that state in 1889. They
were the parents of three sons and three daughters, of whom one, JAMES GUERRY,
died in 1908, at the age of thirty years.
	OBE PIERCE GOODE was the youngest of his parents’ children and received 
his education in the public schools of Georgia. When fifteen years of age he 
put aside his studies and came to Florida, where, at St. Augustine, he learned 
the trade of cigar maker. He followed this vocation for some years before being 
promoted to the post of foreman in a cigar factory, and later left this 
position to become identified with the Alcazar Hotel, a concern with which he 
remained for six years. He was thus engaged when, in 1911, he was elected judge 
of the Municipal Court of St. Augustine, and was retained in that capacity for 
three terms. In 1916, after an excellent record as a judge, he was elected 
clerk of the Circuit Court of St. Johns County, and his first four-year term
having proven satisfactory in every way, in 1920 he was reelected to the same
office, in which he is now serving. Mr. Goode is a capable, courteous and
conscientious public official, and one who has the confidence and esteem of all
who have business in the court. He is a past Chancellor of St. Augustine Lodge
No. 23, K. P.; a past master of Ashlar Lodge No. 98, F. and A. M.; exalted
ruler of St. Augustine Lodge No. 829, B. P. O. E.; past dictator of St.
Augustine Lodge No. 498, L. O. O. M., and a past president of St. Augustine
Lodge, F. O. E. Formally an athlete, Mr. Goode takes a great interest in all
forms of manly past times, particularly the national game, and at present is
president of the St. Augustine Baseball Club. During the World war he was
chairman of the home service relief committee of the American Red Cross and
general chairman of the St. Johns County Salvation Army Committee and at
present is vice president of the St. Augustine Historical Society. In politics
he is a democrat.
	On October 14, 1903, Mr. Goode was united in marriage with Miss ESTELLE
CARLOTTA SANCHEZ, who was born at St. Augustine, and to this union there have
been born three sons and two daughters: WILLIAM GUERRY, KATHRYN IONE, WINNA
LOUISE, RODMAN PIERCE and OBE BYNG.


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