Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Goodrich, Dr J W 
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Author: Past & Present Will County, 1907

Dr. J. W. Goodrich has made his home in Peotone for the past eighteen years 
and has been successfully engaged in the practice of veterinary surgery, being 
numbered among the foremost representatives of the profession in this part of 
the state. He was born in Maine, March 10, 1854, a son of Noah and Julia 
(Wheeler) Goodrich, both natives of the Pine Tree state, where the father is 
still engaged in farming in Goodrich, the village having been named in his 
honor. Their family numbered seven children, of whom three are now deceased, 
while three make their home in Maine, and J. W. is the only one who ever came 
to the west. Dr. Goodrich was reared to farm life, being assigned to the 
various duties of the fields as his age and strength, permitted. He acquired 
his literary education in the common schools of his native state, while at the 
age of nineteen years he entered the American Veterinary College, at New York 
city, and was a student there for two and a half years. He then located for 
practice at Fort Fairfield, Maine, and later spent two years in Memphis, 
Tennessee, from which state he came to Peotone, where he has been located for 
the past eighteen years as a licensed veterinary. During this time he has 
built up a large and lucrative practice, and although a spell of sickness has 
disabled him from performing the actual labors connected with the profession, 
he is still called upon to make professional visits to prescribe, while he 
leaves the work to others. He keeps in touch with the most modern methods of 
practice through reading and investigation and is thoroughly conversant with 
the most scientific principles which underlie the profession, and his success 
is well merited. In 1889 occurred the marriage of Dr. Goodrich and Miss Adassa 
Fell, who was born in Canada, a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Rainsthorp) 
Fell, who were natives of England, whence they emigrated to Canada and about 
forty years ago settled in Green Garden township, Will county, but both are 
now deceased. Unto the Doctor and his wife have been born two sons and two 
daughters, Noah, Anna Estelle, Frank and Elizabeth, all of whom are still 
under the parental roof. In politics Dr. Goodrich is a socialist. The family 
attend and support the Methodist Episcopal church. The Doctor is a broad 
reader, keeping well informed not only on the progress which is continually 
being made in his profession, but also with the current and political evtnts 
of the day. He and his family are prominent in social circles and occupy a 
nice home on West Corning avenue in Peotone.

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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