Biographical Sketch of R. P. Goodall, Laclede County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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R. P. Goodall, sheriff of Laclede county, Mo., was born in Orleans 
county, Vt., December 1, 1838, and is the son of Richard R. and Ruth
(Lymon) Goodall, natives of New Hampshire, who immigrated to Vermont
at quite an early date.  The paternal grandfather was drowned in the
Connecticut River while rafting lumber.  Richard P. Goodall was a 
farmer by occupation, is still living, and is a resident of Orleans
county, Vt.  He is quite a promient man there, having represented his
county two successive terms in the Legislature.  He is the father of
five children, only two now living: R. P. and Helen.  The latter re-
sides at Denver, Col.  R. P. Goodall, subject of this sketch, assisted
his father on the farm in Vermont until about twenty years of age, and
received a good education.  At this time he learned the carpenter's
trade, which he followed in Vermont.  In July, 1861, he was mustered
into Company D, Third Vermont Volunteer Infantry, entering the service
as a private, and was afterward promoted to the rank of second lieu-
tenant in Company G, at Brandy Station, Va., holding this position
until the close of the war.  He was engaged in all the battles of the
Army of the Potomac: Yorktown, Williamsburg, Fredericksburg, Antietam,
battle of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Courthouse and Salem.  He was
wounded in the left hand by a gunshot at the Wilderness, but went with
his company to Spottsylvania.  He was also wounded in the left leg at
Salem, and was taken to a hospital, where he remained for about six
weeks.  He was mustered out at Burlington in 1864, and then returned
to Vermont, where he remained until 1867, when he came to Arlington,
Mo.  He here worked at his trade until 1869, when he came to Lebanon,
and there built one of the first frame houses in New Lebanon, for a 
lady by the name of Hanford.  He continued his trade until 1874, when
he was elected sheriff, and re-elected in 1876.  Two years later he 
was defeated by a Greenbacker for the office of collector, and in 1880
he was re-elected sheriff.  In 1882 he was elected county collector,
and in 1886 he was re-elected to the office of sheriff.  He was marr-
ied on November 6, 1879, to Miss Mary Henson, a native of Missouri,
and to them has been born one child, R. P., Jr.  Mr. Goodall is a 
member of the Masonic fraternity, Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery;
also G. A. R., and is a stanch Democrat in his political opinions.

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