Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Goodspeed, Charles F 
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Author: Past and Present Will County IL; 1907

Charles F. Goodspeed, manager of the Will County Abstract Company at Joliet, 
his native city, was born August 26, 1860, and was a son of Judge Francis and 
Lucretia I. (Knox) Goodspeed. He was educated in the schools of Joliet, in 
Chicago University and in Knox College, at Galesburg, Illinois, and when his 
more specifically literary education was completed he pursued a course in 
Bloomington Law School, from which he was graduated, in 1882. He was admitted 
to the bar on the 10th of June of that year and has since practiced his 
profession, paying particular attention at the present time to probate 
business and land titles. For several years, however, he continued in the 
general practice of law and on abandoning it he became the manager of the Will 
County Abstract Company in 1900, purchasing the controlling interest in the 
business. He has full charge of the business, which was established in 1893. 
The company occupies offices at No. 120 North Ottawa street, in the Commercial 
Club building, which is a modern structure, thoroughly up-to-date. Mr. 
Goodspeed employs eight people to take charge of the office business, which is 
steadily growing, being the leading abstract business of the county. On the 
24th of October, 1883, was celebrated the marriage of Charles F. Goodspeed and 
Miss Hester A. Beedy, of Peotone, Illinois, and they have two sons: Frank, 
born September 2, 1884; and Nathan Lee, born January 1, 1887. Mr. Goodspeed 
has taken an active interest in politics as an earnest and unfaltering 
republican. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained 
the Knight Templar degree, and is also a member of the Mystic Shrine. He is 
likewise identified with the Union League Club and with the Commercial Club, 
and his contemporaries acknowledge him one of the leading business men of the 
city, having a wide and favorable acquaintance in professional and financial 
circles, his name being an honored one on commercial paper. 

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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