Frank D. Goodrich Biography


	This biography appears on page 1532 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	FRANK D. GOODRICH, one of the representative citizens and 
merchants of Cavour, Beadle county, is a native of the old Keystone 
state of the Union, having been born in Dundaff, Susquehanna county, 
Pennsylvania, on the 19th of April, 1850. He is a son of Dr. Ira and 
Margaret Goodrich, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania, of 
staunch English lineage, his parents having been native of Connecticut 
and representatives of old and honored colonial families. The mother of 
the subject was born in Kinderhook, New York, and was of Holland Dutch 
ancestry. Dr. Goodrich was graduated in Geneva Medical College. in! the 
state of New York, and was a man of high professional attainments. He 
was engaged in practice in Pennsylvania for a number of years and 
finally removed thence to Delavan, Wisconsin, in which state both he and 
his wife passed the remainder of their lives. 

	The subject of this review secured his early educational 
discipline in the public schools of Delavan, Wisconsin, and at the age 
of sixteen years began clerking in a local mercantile establishment. At 
the age of nineteen he entered upon an apprenticeship at the blacksmith 
trade, to which he devoted his attention for a long term of years, 
having owned and operated a shop of his own in Delavan, Wisconsin, for 
seven years prior to coming to the present state of South Dakota as a 
pioneer. He came to Beadle county in 1883 and took up government land, 
being successfully engaged in farming and stock growing for the ensuing 
fourteen years, while for six years he purchased wheat for a local 
elevator company. For two years he was stationed on the Yankton Indian 
reservation, being industrial teacher in the school at that agency and 
also directing the farming operations of the Indians. In 1901 he located 
in Cavour and established his present flourishing business, his store 
having a large and complete stock of general merchandise, while his 
trade extends throughout the territory tributary to the thriving town. 
In politics he is an uncompromising advocate of the principles of the 
Republican party, and his interest in the promotion of its cause has 
been unflagging. 

	On the 22d of October, 1874, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. 
Goodrich to Miss Kate A. Hewes, who was born near Racine, Wisconsin, in 
1854, being a daughter of George and Mary Hewes. Mr. and Mrs. Goodrich 
have three children, Florence H., Ella M. and Mary.