Bio of GOODRIDGE, Irving R. (b.1862), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

IRVING R. GOODRIDGE - Vol II, pg 746
Irving R. Goodridge, secretary-treasurer of the Central Lumber Company of
Min­neapolis, has been identified with this line of business from the age of
twenty and his influence is one of broadening activity and strength in the field
in which he is operat­ing. He was born at Eden, Maine, May 19, 1862, and his
parents, Uriah and Hannah T. (Emery) Goodridge, were also natives of the Pine
Tree state. The Goodridge family is of English origin and was established in
Maine in 1636. Representatives of the Emery family also emigrated from England
to America about the same time and members of both families participated in the
Revolutionary war. Henry Goodridge was a shipbuilder and his son Noah, the
grandfather of the subject of this review, engaged in the practice of medicine.
The public schools of Eden, Maine, and Rochester, New York, afforded Irving R.
Goodridge his educational opportunities and on the 27th of December, 1882, he
arrived in Minneapolis, entering the employ of the firm of N. P. Clarke &
Company, lumber dealers. He remained with that concern for about five years,
working for them in this city and in Winnipeg, Canada, and he then became a
member of the firm of Goodridge, Hanscom & Company, sash and door manufacturers.
He filled the office of secretary until the business was sold and in 1887
accepted th'e position of bookkeeper for the Carpenter & Adams Company, sash and
door jobbers. Subsequently the style of Car­penter Brothers & Company was
adopted and the undertaking was continued under that style until 1893, when the
present form of the Carpenter-Lamb Company was assumed. Mr. Goodridge was made
secretary at that time and has been retained in that office. In 1901 he became a
stockholder of the Central Lumber Company and in January of that year was
elected secretary and treasurer, which offices he now occu­pies, and he is also
serving in a similar capacity with the F. H. Carpenter Lumber Company. He
formerly served as vice president of the Northwestern Lumbermen's Association,
of which he is now a director, and he is also a stockholder in the First
National Bank of Minneapolis.
On the 17th of January, 1894, Mr. Goodridge was united in marriage to Miss
Gertrude Hilger, a daughter of John P. Hilger. Mr. Goodridge was at one time a
member of Company I, First Regiment, Minnesota National Guard. He, is connected
with the Minneapolis Club, the Lafayette Club and the Minneapolis Automobile
Club. He ranks with the foremost representatives of the lumber industry in this
city and among those with whom business or social relations have brought him
into contact he is held in the highest esteem.