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Author: Will T. Hale

   HALLUM WOOD GOODLOE. When on January 19, 1909, the general assembly took up

the selection of an incumbent for the office of secretary of state, the ballots

of all the members present were cast unanimously for Hallum Wood Goodloe. With

such a demonstration of general approval at his induction into office, Mr.

Goodloe by his management of the office has since proved the wisdom of his

choice. Among the officials of the capitol, none was more popular and efficient

in the public service than Mr. Goodloe, but by an unaccountable turn of

political fortunes he was defeated before the general assembly on January, 1913,

for re-election.



   Mr. Goodloe was born in Haywood (now Crockett) county, Tennessee, on the 8th

of June, 1869. He was educated in Thompson's Classical Institute, at Alamo, his

native town, and then attended the University of Tennessee for one year. In

September, 1891, he was appointed clerk and master of the chancery court of

Crockett county, and thus began a career of public service which has been

continued with honor and usefulness to the present time. In March, 1901, after

nearly ten years an official in his native county, he resigned to become chief

clerk in the office of secretary of state, then held by Captain John W. Morton.

He resigned as chief clerk in 1907, and during the following year became a

candidate for the office of secretary of state. Mr. Goodloe has been a resident

of Nashville and Franklin, Tennessee, since 1901. He is a Democrat, a Knight

Templar, Mason and Mystic Shriner, an Elk, and is a member of the Southern

Presbyterian church. He was married in 1902 to Miss Mary Dawson, of Crockett

county, and their children are Hallum Wood, Jr., and Isabelle.



   Mr. Goodloe has a notable ancestry, and on both his father's and mother's

side represents families that have been identified with the state of Tennessee

from the pioneer epoch of its history. The Goodloes were identified with the Old

Dominion of Virginia from the first half century of its settlement. The

progenitor of the family in America was George Goodloe, a native of England, who

emigrated to America as early as 1666, if not before. In 1674 he entered land in

Middlesex county, Virginia, where he died in 1710 at the age of seventy-one.

From him the line of descent is as follows: Henry Goodloe (II) was born in

Middlesex county and died about 1747. Robert Goodloe (III), who spent his life

in Virginia, was born in 1711, and died in 1790. George Goodloe (IV),

great-great-grandfather of Tennessee's secretary of state, lived and died in

Spottsylvania county, Virginia, 1744-1801. Robert Morris Goodloe (V), who was

born in Spottsylvania county in 1774, with his four brothers founded the family

name and fortune in Tennessee, settling in Rutherford county, where he died in

1844. Aquilla Johnson Goodloe (VI), the grandfather, was born and spent his

early life in Rutherford county, removing to west Tennessee in 1849 and settled

in Gibson county. He afterward removed to Obion. where he died during the Civil

war. Caswell Anderson Goodloe (VII), father of Hallum W., was born in Rutherford

county, but since 1867 has been a practicing lawyer at Alamo in Crockett county.

Hallum W. is thus in the eighth generation from the original American ancestor

of the Goodloes. Caswell A. Goodloe married Sarah, or Sallie Wood, who was born

in Dyer county, this state, in 1849 and died in 1880.



   The Wood family likewise goes back a number of generations and had its-

original seat in Virginia. Thomas Wood, born in Henrico county, Virginia, jn

1744, was a private in the Virginia troops in 1776 under Captain Thomas Prosser

and Captain William Burton, in Colonel Innis' Regiment. After the Revolution he

came to Tennessee, where he died about 1836. He was the father of George Archer

Wood, born in Virginia in 1779 and died in Dyer county, Tennessee, in 1853, and

he in turn was the father of Stephen D. Wood, whose daughter Sarah was the

mother of Mr. Goodloe.



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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913



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