Sedgwick-Harper County KS Archives Biographies.....Goodrich, Cutler W. 1841 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Cutler W. Goodrich, M. D., of the medical firm of Goodrich & Wilhoite, No.
123 South Main street, Wichita, Kan., is a native of Ohio, where he was born in
Athens county on September 11, 1841. His parents were Bingham and Elizabeth
(Griffith) Goodrich, natives of Ohio and Maryland, respectively, the latter
being of Scotch descent. The mother came when a child with her parents to Ohio,
and went to Missouri in the early seventies. After her marriage to Bingham
Goodrich and some time spent in Missouri, the couple moved to Kansas in 1880,
locating on a farm in Harper county. Mr. Goodrich died at the age of
eighty-seven and his widow died at the age of seventy-six. Cutler W. Goodrich
was educated at the Ohio public schools and also received an academic course. He
enlisted July 31, 1862, in Company A, Ninety-second Ohio Regiment. He was first
sergeant for two years, and in his last year of service was promoted to first
lieutenant. He was discharged from the army June 10, 1865, at Washington, D. C.
During his service Dr. Goodrich was at the battles of Hoovers Gap, Chickamauga,
Missionary Ridge, Marietta, Ga., and wound up at Bentonville, when Johnson
surrendered to General Sherman. He received slight wounds, but braved it through
every campaign, his hardest being with Sherman, Thomas and Grant. The medical
education of Dr. Goodrich was received at the Physio-Medical Institute,
Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he graduated in the class of 1874. He began
practice in Athens county, Ohio, moved to Missouri in 1875, and for seven years
practiced at Houstonia, and then removed to Harper county, Kansas, where he
continued practice until 1894. The doctor then moved to Grant county, Oklahoma,
where he followed his profession until 1903, when he moved to Wichita and formed
a partnership with Willis F. Wilhoite under the firm name of Goodrich &
Wilhoite, and has since continued in practice. Dr. Goodrich is a member of the
G. A. R., the Knights of Pythias and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He was
 married to Miss Nancy J. Clark, of Athens, O., who died in 1874. Two children
were born of this marriage—Iola C., wife of J. H. Martin, of Oklahoma, and Abbie
E., wife of F. H. Brubaker, of Hobart, Okla. In June, 1876, the doctor was
married to Miss Hattie B. Martin, of Ohio. Of this union the following children
have been born: Bingham G. Goodrich, conductor in the Pullman car service for
the Wabash railroad; Lottie B., Wichita; Ethel E., wife of G. B. Erwin, of
Oklahoma City; Elizabeth, wife of M. L. Marley, Coldwater, Kan., and Elvaretta,
of Wichita.

   Timothy Goodrich, grandfather of the doctor, was a soldier in the War of
1812, and participated in the Indian wars. He was a native of Litchfield county,
Massachusetts, and was reared in Vermont. He was one of five brothers who came
from England and landed at Cape Cod. Three of the brothers went north and two
south. He moved to Ohio shortly after it became a state, going to Athens, Ohio,
where he passed the rest of his life, dying at the age of eighty-five years,
December, 1865.


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History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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