Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Goodenough, Willard A 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Willard A. Goodenough, farmer, section 10, Union Grove Township, has been a 
resident on the same farm which he now occupies since he first took possession 
of it at the time of his settling in the county in 1865. He is the third child 
of John and Betsey (Cobleigh) Goodenough. His parents were natives of Vermont, 
and removed from there to Jefferson Co., N. Y., where they were farmers and 
reared their children, 11 in number. Mr. Goodenough was born March 24, 1822, 
in Jefferson Co., N. Y., where he grew to manhood and there obtained a good 
common-school education. About the time he arrived at the period of his legal 
freedom, he bought a farm in his native county, on which he labored until his 
removal to Illinois in the year named. He made a purchase of 120 acres of land 
on the section where he has since maintained his homestead. He is now the 
owner of 230 acres of the valuable land which is the source of the wealth and 
prosperity of Whiteside County. It is chiefly under cultivation. He is a 
Prohibitionist in his political views. His marriage to Nancy J. Hull took 
place Jan. 13, 1842, in Oswego Co., N. Y., and they have been the parents of 
five children: George E., Esther J., Lewis E., Emma L. and Ella L. (twins). 
Lewis died at the age of 16 months. Mrs. Goodenough was born Aug. 22, 1820, in 
Morristown, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., and is the daughter of Nathaniel and 
Prudence (Fish) Hull. Her mother was born in Massachusetts, and her father in 
Connecticut. They had four children. Mr. and Mrs. Goodenough are members of 
the Baptist Church.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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