Charles W. Goodale
History of Montana, Sanders, 1913

The mining industry of Montana has in the person of Charles 
W. Goodale one of its ablest exponents and most active 
operators, while the city of Butte regards him as one of 
her most valuable citizens and men of affairs.  A 
graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
at Boston, Mr. Goodale has been connected with mines 
and mining matters since his early manhood and with the 
passing of the years he has won for himself a reputation 
for ability in that field of industry that is second to 
none in the state of Montana.

He was born in Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands on the 6th of 
September 1854, a son of Warren and Ellen F. (Whitmore) 
Goodale.  The father was born at Marlboro, Massachusetts 
in 1825 and died in Honolulu, February 1897 at the age 
of seventy-two.  Warren Goodale prepared for Yale and 
while a student at that institution was obliged to give 
up his studies owing to trouble with his eyes.  A long 
sea voyage was recommended as means of securing relief 
and he started for the Hawaiian Islands where his aunt, 
Lucy Thurston had for many years engaged in missionary 
work.  Mr. Goodale made the journey around Cape Horn, 
in 1849 at the time the exodus to the newly discovered 
gold fields in California was at its height, and 
proceeded on to his destination.  Arriving in Honolulu 
in 1849, Mr. Goodale soon afterward became a teacher 
in the Royal School and subsequently was appointed 
marshal of the kingdom later becoming collector of 
customs at Honolulu.  In 1852 he returned to the 
United States and was married at Tahlequah Indian 
Territory on the 17th of June that year to Miss 
Ellen F. Whitmore, after an engagement of several 
years.  Mrs. Goodale was the daughter of Levi and 
Mehitable Whitmore, natives of Marlboro, 
Mssachusetts and a lady of unusual intelligence 
who in her maiden days was deeply interested in 
the condition of the American Indian and gave 
much thought to the matter of their improvement.  
In 1850 she went to Indian Territory to teach in 
the Indian schools and spent two years there as 
principal of a school established by Chief John 
Ross of the Cherokee tribes.  In those days modes 
of travel in that section of the country were most 
primitive and the journey of the young lady from 
her eastern home to the Indian territory is worthy 
of some mention.  Leaving Philadelphia by rail she 
journeyed thus to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, from 
thence by canal to Pittsburgh and from there to 
Cincinnati by steamer "Robert Rogers" down the 
Ohio River from Cincinnati to Louisville Kentucky 
by the steamer "Lady Franklin" and then started 
for Cairo Illinois by the steamer "Empress".  En 
route to Cairo this steamer went aground and the 
passengers were transferred to the steamer "Julia 
Dean" which landed them at Cairo; next to Memphis 
and the mouth of the Arkansas River by the steamer 
"Sultana" then by another steamboat as far as 
Richmond Arkansas and from the latter place to 
Tahlequah Indian Territory by stage coach and 
wagon, the trip being quite a rough and hazardous 
one, especially towards the latter end.  She 
reached Tahlequah, on November 13, having been 
en route since October 3rd.

After his marriage Warren Goodale with his bride 
visited their former homes in New England, then 
started on the long journey to Honolulu where their 
home was established and maintained until the death 
of Mrs. Goodale in 1861.  After this sad event the 
father and family of five children returned to the 
United States and took up their home in Massachusetts.

This was shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War 
and Warren Goodale enlisted in the Eleventh Massachusetts 
Battery and was active in that great struggle until 
its close, rising to the rank of captain.

Following the close of the war, Mr. Goodale returned 
to Honolulu and becoming connected with the sugar 
business in that country continued to reside there 
until his death in February 1897, at the age of 
seventy two.  Of his five children all are now 
living, except one daughter, Mary E., who died 
at Great Falls Montana on September 19, 1908.

Charles W. Goodale was a boy of six years when he 
was brought to the United States by his father and 
left in the care of an uncle on the old Goodale 
homestead in Marlboro Massachusetts.  This fine 
old estate has been in the Goodale family for the 
past two hundred years.  In this old New England 
town, Mr. Goodale attended the public and high 
schools, after which he was graduated from the 
English high school in Boston in 1871.  He 
followed this training by a course in the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating 
in 1875 with a Bachelor of Science.  He first 
became associated with the Boston and Colorado 
Smelting Company after leaving college and for 
five years he continued in the employ of that 
company, one year in Boston and four years in 
Black Hawk, Colorado.

He then became connected wit the Boston and Arizona 
Smelting Company at Tombstone Arizona and was five 
years with them after which in 1885 he entered the 
service of the Colorado Smelting and Mining at Butte 
Montana was in their employ for 13 years.  In 1898 Mr. 
Goodale became connected with the Boston and Montana 
Mining Company as superintendent at Great Falls, 
residing in that city from 1898 to 1901.  In December 
he became manager of the Boston and Montana Mining 
Company, a department of the Anaconda Copper Mining 
Company in which position he has since remained.

He has but recently returned from a trip to the Hawaiian 
Islands and Japan, made in company with a party of eighty 
of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, who were 
guests while in Japan of the Mining Institute of Japan.  
In 1910 he was a member of a similar party that visited 
the Panama Canal, these being but two of many trips of 
a similar character that he has taken.

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