Sedgwick-Neosho County KS Archives Biographies.....Goodrich, Walstein D. 1844 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Walstein D. Goodrich, of Wichita, Kan., is a native of New York state, where
he was born in September, 1844. His parents were H. B. and Rachel (Valentine)
Goodrich. The remote ancestors of both parents were Germans. The father of
Walstein D. Goodrich moved from New York to Wisconsin with a family of three
children and located in Dodge county in 1846. He was a farmer there until his
death in 1856, when he was killed in a mill accident. Walstein D. Goodrich
remained at home after the death of his father until his enlistment in the army
on August 11, 1862, in the First Wisconsin Cavalry. This regiment was equipped
at St. Louis and at Cape Girardeau, Mo., where it remained one year, and was
transferred in June, 1863, to the Army of the Cumberland. Mr. Goodrich was with
Sherman in the campaign at Atlanta, Ga., and then was sent back to Nashville,
Tenn., to intercept General Hood of the Confederate army, and remained there
until the battle of Nashville, and then followed Hood to the Tennessee river.
After this he was with General Wilson in the wind-up of the war at Macon, Ga.,
and served some time after he was entitled to his discharge, not knowing the war
was over. The regiment was busy protecting government property and was fighting
almost every day while in the Army of the Cumberland. The regiment was finally
discharged at Nashville, Tenn., in 1865, and Mr. Goodrich returned to his old
home in Wisconsin. After a residence there of four years, he moved to Neosha,
Kan., in 1869, and afterwards to Sedgwick county, where he homesteaded 160 acres
in Kechi township, Section 6. Mr. Goodrich, since becoming a resident of the
township, has held many minor offices. He is a member of the G. A. R., Valley
Center post, and in politics is a Republican. He is now president of the bank at
Valley Center and is a prominent citizen. Mr. Goodrich was married in March,
1865, at Beaver Dam, Wis., to Miss Sophia A. Kirkham, of Oak Grove, Wis. Of this
union seven children have been born, of whom six are now living, viz.: Thaddeus,
Wallace, Myrtle, Eugenie, Willard and Clyde.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from 

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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