Rev. Alfred Gooding Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire

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Surname: GOODING
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 778 

     REV. ALFRED GOODING, pastor of the South Parish Unitarian
Church at Portsmouth, N. H., was born in Brookline, Mass., May 10,
1856, a son of Josiah and Anna W. Gooding. Mr. Gooding was grad-
uated A. B. from Harvard College in 1877, and S. T. B. from the Harv-
ard Divinity School in 1881. He has resided in Portsmouth since Octo-
ber, 1884, at which time he came here to assume the duties of his pres-
ent charge. He has identified himself usefully with some important
public interests, having served as a member of the Board of Instruction,
trustee of the Public Library, and president of the Portsmouth Athe-
naeum. He was married, June 1, 1887, to Miss Mabel Sise, a daughter
of John and Lucy M. Sise, of Portsmouth. Their children are Frederic,
who resides in Boston, Mass., and Eleanor, who lives at home with her
parents.