GOOD BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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GOOD, Reuben - b: 1825 Montgomery Co, OH
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 748
residence: Osage Twp

Captain Reuben Good, a pioneer settler of this township, is a native of 
Montgomery County, Ohio, and was born January 11, 1825. Adam Good, his father, 
originally of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, went to Ohio when a young man and 
located in Montgomery County, of which he was an early settler. He served in the 
war of 1812. He was married in Montgomery County to Miss Margaret Hillagus 
who was born in Pennsylvania. Reuben Good grew to manhood in the county of his 
birth, spending his youth on the farm. In 1848, he moved to Indiana and located in 
Fountain County, where he resided about seven years. In 1856, going to Illinois, 
he passed the summer in Hancock County, and coming thence to Missouri in the 
fall of 1856, he settled in Henry County where he improved a farm. His farm 
contains 720 acres all in cultivation and pasture. A good orchard of 200 apple, 
about 150 cherry and some plum trees is on the place. Besides his home place Mr. 
Good has a farm of 175 acres and a timber tract of 160 acres, partly in Henry and 
partly in St. Clair Counties. He is one of the largest stock feeders in the township 
and feeds on an average 200 head of steers and about the same number of hogs 
yearly. He was married June 20, 1854, to Miss Susan Huber, a native of Ohio, and 
a daughter of Elisha and Catharine Huber. They have a family of five children: 
Margaret C. (wife of John Darby), Ellen A., Theodore, Agnes J. and Christina. Mr. G. 
enlisted in 1862 in the Enrolled Missouri Militia and served as captain. He also 
served for about two years in the army. He and his wife are members of the 
Presbyterian Church.

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