GOODALE

REV. SAMUEL GOODALE, Pastor of Grace Episcopal Church, Columbus, was
born in Berkshire County, Mass., in 1814, where he remained, living with
his parents, until he was twenty-one years of age. He graduated at Union
College, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1836, having been one of the founders of
the Psi Upsilon Society, and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, of
that college. He then taught school in Wheeling, W. Va., three years. He
entered the Episcopal Theological Seminary at New York City, graduating
in 1841, in which year he was ordained at Providence, R. I. His first
charge was as missionary near Syracuse, N.Y., where in 1843 he married
Miss Rebecca Kimball, who died at Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1850, to which
place they had that year removed. She left a son, Chester, now living
near Ashland, in Cass County, Neb.
In 1852, Mr. G. was married at Wilbraham, Mass., to Miss Anna Merrick, a
native of that State. They have one child, a daughter, Josie, now the
wife of V. T. Prise, of Columbus, Neb. From Kalamazoo he went to Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, in 1853, remaining two years, then going to Geneseo and
Rock Island, Ill., where he remained until 1866. In that year he came to
Nebraska, accepting the appointment of missionary along the Union
Pacific Railway. He located at Columbus in 1868, where he built a
church, afterward going to Lincoln, Ashland and Fremont, at which
places, and at Silver Creek, he built churches. In 1877, he returned to
Columbus, where he now lives. He was chosen Chaplain of the Senate of
the Eighth Legislature, serving most acceptably in this position during
the session. 
Source: Andreas' History of Nebraska , Platte Co, City of Columbus
Submitted by Susie Martin-Rott
rootbound2@geocities.com


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