Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Goodhue, Edward Solon September 29, 1863 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

EDWARD SOLON GOODHUE, Physician, Author and Publicist. Intimate friend of the 
late Theodore Roosevelt, physician and a poet of note, E. S. Goodhue of 
Kualapuu, Molokai, is also known throughout America, Canada and England for 
his numerous articles and treatises upon scientific and medical subjects. 
During a residence of three decades in Hawaii, Dr. Goodhue has served as a 
government physician, a post he accepted in 1895, as medical superintendent of 
Koloa Hospital, attending surgeon of Malulani and Eleele hospitals, and as 
acting assistant surgeon of the United States Public Health and Marine 
Hospital service from 1900 to 1904.
  Dr. Goodhue came to Hawaii from Riverside, Calif., where he began practice 
after being graduated from Rush Medical College. Assuming a government 
position in charge of a hospital on Kauai, he came in contact with many 
lepers, and became intensely interested in the study of the disease, 
publishing a great number of papers on the subject.
  In 1909 Dr. Goodhue was a delegate to the International Congress on 
Inebriety, at London, and in 1909 he was appointed by President Taft as a 
delegate to the International Congress on Leprosy, which met in Norway. He was 
also special representative of Hawaii, and a delegate of the Medico-Legal 
Congress that met in Brussels the same year.
  Always keenly interested in civic and political affairs, Dr. Goodhue has 
been an active worker in the Republican party for many years, and as a 
delegate to the National Republican convention and a member of the platform 
committee was the first to advocate and draft a provision for woman’s 
suffrage, which was incorporated within the platform. In 1919 he wrote and was 
instrumental in the adoption of the constitution and by-laws of the Civic 
Improvement Association of Molokai.
  In 1906 Dr. Goodhue inaugurated the first crusade against tuberculosis in 
Hawaii, and organized the Anti-Tuberculosis Association of Hawaii with local 
officers from all the islands. Through his conference with the President, 
cabinet members, Senators and Representatives, seeking their aid in the 
passage of prohibition for Hawaii, Dr. Goodhue was responsible in obtaining 
prohibition for the Territory.
  Dr. Goodhue is now engaged upon a three-fold labor of love – a park for his 
beloved Molokai children, a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt, and a “Book of 
Tributes,” written by many distinguished contributors in America, France and 
England.
  He is a Mason and a member of the American Academy for the Advancement of 
Science, American Society of Tropical Medicine, Hawaiian Medical Society, 
Hawaiian Historical Society, is vice-president for Hawaii of the Medico-Legal 
Society for New York, and a member of the Honolulu Ad and Honolulu Press clubs 
and the Authors’ Club of London. He is the author of “Verses from the Valley,” 
1889; “Out of the Pigeon Holes,” 1889; “Beneath Hawaiian Palms and Stars,”, 
1900; “Hawaii First,” 1902; “Within Hawaiian Reefs,” 1907; “Songs of the 
Western Sea,” 1911; “All Out of the West,” 1911; “The Adequate Care and 
Punishment of Defectives,” 1913; “Under the Silver Moon,” 1914; “About the 
Climate of Hawaii,: 1914; “Salt” (Old Doc’s Talk), 1914; “Cycle of Cathay,” 
1915; “A Few War Verses,” 1917; “An Open Letter to the Kaiser,” 1917; “On the 
Reserve,” 1921; “The Victim,” 1921. In 1921 and 1922 he compiled a book of 
tributes to Theodore Roosevelt.
  Dr. Goodhue was born of American parents at Athabaskaville, Quebec, Canada, 
Sept. 29, 1863, the son of James and Marian Miranda (Emerson) Goodhue. He is a 
direct descendant of Benjamin Goodhue, senator for Massachusetts to the first 
Continental Congress, who drafted the bill for the formation of the District 
of Columbia. Also, through the Goodhue line he is related to Mrs. Calvin 
Coolidge, the Bigelows of Vermont, Pillsburys of Minnesota, Edna Dean Proctor, 
the poet, and the late Bertram G. Goodhue, the New York architect. On his 
mother’s side Mr. Goodhue is descended from Ralph Waldo Emerson, great 
American poet and philosopher. His education was received from tutors, St. 
Francis College (McGill University), and in 1892 he was granted his M.D. 
degree by Rush Medical College, Chicago. In 1910 he was granted an honorary A. 
M. degree and in 1912 and LL.D. He practiced medicine at Riverside, Calif., 
from 1892 to 1895. In 1899 he married Lula Mae Rosser of Chicago, and they 
have two children, a son, Marion S., of Baltimore, and a daughter, Dorothy M. 
Goodhue, student in a Virginia seminary.


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