Polk County IA Archives Obituaries.....Good, Charles  March 27, 1898
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Des Moines Register/Plain Talk/Iowa Leader
Charles Good died March 27, 1898 ath the home of his son, Samuel M. Good. Mr.
Good was born in Coshocton co, Ohio, November 18, 1808. He came to Des Moines in
1849, taking up his abode in a log house at Second and Elm streets. He opened a
store next to his house and later started a bakery on Second street, north of
Market. Later he established a general store, above which he conducted religious
services in a hall. What is known as Good's central addition he bought for $300,
while the thirty-acre tract on University avenue he obtained in trade for a span
of horses.  He then purchased the land where the Good block now stands for $250.
It was formerly a soggy piece of ground in a corn field. 

Mr. Good was married in 1833 to Miss Sarah Geil. Of this union four children
were born, of whom three are now living. They are Samuel M. Good, Henry Good and
Mrs. Maria Harless, all of this city. After his first wife died, he married
Barbara Berry in 1849. She died in 1864, leaving him two children, of whom Mrs.
Sarah Nysewander, wife of Dr. Nysewander, survives. 

The funeral was held Thursday Afternoon from the church of the Brethren in
Christ at Thirteenth and University Avenue. Pall bearers were Wm. and Ernest
Good, Chas. Harless and Mr. Iseminger, grandsons, and Frank Thornton and Lincoln
Altman, grandsons-in-law of deceased. Interment took place at Woodland cemetery. 

Additional Comments:
The "Good block" is the land on which stands the Kaleidoscope.
Charles' wives were first cousins.

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