BIOGRAPHY: Clarence L. GOODWIN, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 138-9
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CLARENCE L. GOODWIN, one of the young democrats of Cambria county, is a man of 
classical education and with some experience as a public speaker. He is a son of 
John M. and Delia (La Rue) Goodwin, and was born in Warren county, Kentucky, 
December 23, 1859. His father was a physician and a native of the State of 
Indiana. His grandfather was a soldier under Gen. W. H. H. Harrison in the 
battle of Tippecanoe. Mr. Goodwin received his education in the State university 
of Indiana, at Bloomington, that State, and was graduated from that institution 
of learning in the class of 1883. Leaving the university, he taught school in 
Clark county, Indiana, read law for six months, and then became a reporter on 
the Indianapolis Times, which he left later to assume a similar position on the 
Indianapolis Journal, where his labors were terminated in a short time by ill-
health. He then went to Los Angeles, in southwestern California, where he 
remained about four years for his health, and during that time was editorial 
writer and associate editor on the Los Angeles Evening Express. After his health 
had improved to considerable extent he came east in December, 1890, and took a 
position on the Washington (D. C.) Post, which he held up to April, 1891, where 
confinement in an eastern climate had so affected his health that an out-door 
occupation was ordered by medical advice. An opportunity being offered him at 
that time to engage in the lumber business in Cambria county, he accepted the 
offer and became a member of the present firm of Kuhns and Goodwin, who now own 
over four thousand acres of timber. In their busiest season they employ from 
eighty to ninety hands, and have a yearly output from their mills of five 
million feet of lumber. On their timber tract they have three miles of logging 
railroad on which they run a locomotive, and their mills have a capacity of 
thirty-five thousand feet of lumber per day. Doing a large and successful 
business, the firm is widely and favorably known.
     On November 17, 1885, Mr. Goodwin wedded Harriet A. Kuhns, a daughter of 
the late Philip S. Kuhns, a resident of Greensburg, Westmoreland county, and a 
member of that old and respectable Kuhns family, so well-known in that section. 
Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin have two children: Helen L., born December 10, 1893, and 
John K., born July, 25, 1895.
     In politics Clarence L. Goodwin is a Jefferson Democrat, opposed to the 
centralization of power in the general government, though holding that 
government is always empowered to protect itself in the exercise of all its 
functions. He now resides at Dunlo. He was a delegate to the Democratic State 
convention of 1895, at Williamsport, where on the floor of the convention hall 
he presented the name of Hon. W. Horace Rose, of Johnstown as a candidate for 
nomination for Superior Court judge. Mr. Goodwin has been a participant in the 
active scenes of several important political campaigns. He first took part in 
the presidential canvass of 1888 in California, when he spoke at various places 
in the interest of the Democratic nominees. In the gubernatorial campaign of 
1894, in Pennsylvania, he made several speeches in favor of the Democratic 
nominee. Prior to his graduation he represented his university in the State 
College Oratorical contest and won. He then represented his State in the Inter-
State Collegiate Oratorical contest of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa 
and Minnesota, and won third place, and delivered the annual address before the 
alumni of his university for the year 1894.