Biographical Sketch of Thomas Goodwin, Webster 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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Thomas Goodwin, one of the leading farmers and stock traders of Grant
township, Webster county, Mo., and a son of Adam and Elizabeth (Ezel)
Goodwin, was born in White county, Illinois, August 24, 1844.  Adam
Goodwin was born in Carmi, Ill., or where Carmi now stands, in the 
latter part of the last century, and died in that city in 1859.  His
father, Elijah Goodwin, was one of the first settlers of White county,
Ill., and died near Carmi in 1854, at the age of eighty-nine years. He
built the scaffold at Carmi on which Leadbetter, the murderer, was 
hung.  Mrs. Elizabeth (Ezel) Goodwin was born in Alabama, and died at
Carmi when her son, Thomas Goodwin, was but two years of age.  The
latter was the first child by his father's second marriage.  He grew 
to manhood on the farm, and received a common education in the country
schools.  In August, 1861, he enlisted in Company D, Fifty-sixth Illi-
nois Regiment, and was at the battles of Pittsburg Landing, Corinth,
Chattanooga, and was sent from Chattanooga to the Trans-Mississippi
Department, under Steele, at Little Rock.  He was honorably discharged
July 25, 1865, at Pine Bluff, Ark.  After the war he returned to Carmi
where he tilled the soil until 1870, when he came to Webster county,
Mo., and here resided for six years.  He then removed to Kansas, re-
mained there for four years, and in 1881 settled in Webster county,
where he now lives, in Grant township.  He is the owner of 379 acres
of land, all the result of his own industry.  In 1866 he took for his
wife Miss Emaline Douthit, who was born in Carmi, Ill., in 1847 and 
who bore him six children: Matilda, Thomas, Hays, Rosa K., Emaline and
Hattie.  Mr. Goodwin is a Republican in politics, and cast his first
presidential vote for Grant.  In 1878 he was appointed county judge 
in Pratt county, Kas., by Gov. St. John, and was elected to the same
position three terms, but resigned the office in 1881.  He is a member
of the G. A. R., Marshfield Post 225, and he and wife are members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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