Jackson County IA Archives Marriages.....Wright, Eliza  - Goodenow, John E. 1839
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Chicago Record Herald, June 29, 1901
 
Chicago Record Herald, June 29, 1901. 

MAQUOKETA, IOWA June 28- Mr. and Mrs. John E. Goodenow of this city, dispute 
the claim of Mr. and Mrs. Cole of Sibley, to being the oldest wedded pair in 
Iowa. Mr. Goodenow, the founder of this town, was born in Vermont, March 23, 
1812. In 1836 he came to Iowa and begab cultivation of land on which this 
thriving city now stands. In 1839 he returned to New England and married Miss 
Eliza Wright. They journeyed to the home in Iowa in a covered wagon, taking 
nine weeks for the trip. Mr. Goodenow was a member of the first Iowa 
legislature, named the counties of Osceola and Kossuth, was the first 
postmaster of Maquoketa and several times its mayor. Mrs. Goodenow was born in 
1818. 



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