Preston M. Goodrich Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Barbara Gottlock - BGOTTLOC@ccsd.edu

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


Page 1271

     PRESTON M. GOODRICH, a well known and esteemed citizen of Derrv,
N. H., a veteran of the Civil War, was born in Newton, N. H., in 1849, a
son of Evander and Emily B. (Carter) Goodrich. The father was born in
Pultney, Vt., but came to Rockingham county, N. H., when a boy. He was a
shoemaker by trade. He served three years in the Civil war as a member of
Company C, Sixth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry , his eldest son, Thomas
P. Goodrich, being a member of  the same company. The latter, who was
in eighteen of the principal battles, for the last twenty years has been employed
in the New York office of the Provident Life & Trust Company. The subject
of this sketch has two other brothers and a sister, namely: Daniel A., residing
in Danvers, Mass.; Warren T., of New York City, and Mary E. Freze. of
Lowe1I, Mass.
     At the time of the breaking out of the war Preston M. Goodrich was
working as clerk in a store in Haverhill, Mass. In June, 1864-being then
under fifteen years of age, as his birthday did not come until September-he
enlisted in Company D, Thirty-ninth Kentucky Mounted Volunteer Infantry
and was sent on detached service in Virginia and Kentucky, engaged in break-
ing up the guerrilla warfare. He was honorably discharged at Louisville, Ky.,
in September, 1865. Although having had many narrow escapes, he was
never wounded.
     After returning home Mr. Goodrich went to Manchester, where he learned
the painter's trade, at which he worked for six or seven years. The next
twelve or thirteen years of his life were spent in traveling over the New
England States in the interests of Odd Fellows' insurance. During the most
of the time other than that mentioned above he has been engaged in shoe-
making. He is a member of Wesley B. Knight Post, G. A. R. ; is past noble
grand and past chief patriarch in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
belonging to the Lodge, the Encampment and the Rebekahs, and is also a
member of St. Mark's Lodge, A. F. & A. M.

Page 1272

     Mr. Goodrich was married in 1866 to Miss Sarah L. Pierce, of Candia
N. H.. who died in 1904, leaving four children, namely: Lizzie S., wife of
James A. Lyford of Kingston. N. H. ; Emily J. Green, of Chester, N. H.;
Preston E., of Chester, N. H., and Frank P., of Derry. Mr. Goodrich mar-
ried secondly, in 1905, Mrs. Lizzie E. (Adams) Hardy, who was reared in
Quincy, Mass., and is a daughter of William A. Adams, a Civil War veteran,
who served three years in the Sixteenth Light Battery of Massachusetts.
Mrs. Goodrich belongs to the Rebekah Lodge of Odd Fellows and the
Woman's Relief Corps, and is a member of the South Christian Church at
Haverhill.

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