GOODMAN, JOSEPH
                        Lake Charles, LA


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Source: Southwest Louisiana Historical and Biographical by William Henry Perrin
published in 1891; page 155.
Typed by Margaret Rentrop Moore

Joseph Goodman, lake Charles. - Joseph Goodman is a native of Germany, born
February 15, 1829.  He is the son of   A.  and Francisca (Conselmon) Goodwin,
both of whom are natives of Germany.  The father was a carpenter, and worked at
his trade in Germany, where he and our subject's mother both died.
The subject of this sketch came to America in 1853, and settled in Halifax. 
From there he removed to St. Joe, British America, and from the last place to
Boston, Massachuusetts, and later still to New York.  He was afterwards located
for a short while at St. Louis, Missouri, and Lawrence, Kansas.  He came to New
Orlenas in 1856, where he remained until 1858, when he located in Lake Charles,
and here he has resided since that time.  Mr. Goodman served during the
latter part of the Civil War in the artillery service.  Since his return from
the War he has given his attention exclusively to planting.  He owns a good
plantation, where he resides, and on which he raises rice and cotn principally. 
He also has an orange grove of one hundred and fifty trees,
besides other fruit trees.  Mr. Goodman and wife are members of the Catholic
church.