Kalkaska County MI Archives Biographies.....Goodwin, Elijah October 8, 1842 - 
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Author: H.R. Page & Co., 1884 - Chicago


"The Traverse Region, Historical and Descriptive, with Illustrations of 
Scenery and Portraits and Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men 
and Pioneers"
Chicago: H.R. Page & Co., 1884
Page 319

ELIJAH GOODWIN, farmer, Cold Springs, was born in Cayuga County, N. Y., on 
Oct. 8, 1842. He came with his parents to Oakland County, Mich., in October, 
1845, and remained there until 1873. On Aug. 5, 1861, he enlisted in Company 
D, Fifth Michigan Infantry, served his country about three years in that 
capacity, and then re-enlisted as a veteran and served until honorably 
discharged in July, 1865. After the close of the war he returned home, and on 
Feb. 27, 1866, lie was married to Miss Elizabeth A. Urch, of Independence, 
Oakland County, Mich. She was born there Feb. 8, 1844. Their living children 
are Etta L., William A., Alice and Elwin Clarence. After marriage they resided 
seven years in Milford, and then removed to Cold Springs, Kalkaska County, and 
located 160 acres of land on Section 6. Mr. Goodwin has nearly fifty acres of 
his estate under cultivation, and has a thriving fruit bearing orchard, a 
pleasant dwelling, commodious barn and other farm buildings. His residence is 
beautifully situated in full view of the rising village of Westwood, on the 
Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway. He has served two years as highway 
commissioner, eight years as justice of the peace, two years as clerk and 
three years as supervisor of Cold Springs. He is now, in 1884, noble grand in 
the I. 0. 0. F. 

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