Grays Harbor County WA Archives Biographies.....Goodell, Melancthon Z. November 6, 1835 - June 9, 1892
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Author: History of the Pacific Northwest, vol 2, page 346.

" HON. MELANCTHON Z. GOODELL. - The family of which this pioneer is a member has
ever been prominent and influential in the Pacific Northwest since its arrival
hither.
  Jotham W. Goodell, the father, was a pioneer of Ohio; and it was at Vermilion
that Melancthon was born in 1837.  In 1850 the family crossed the plains, the
eight children being deemed no serious hindrance.  A stop-over was made at Salt
Lake one winter; and it has been thought that they missed but little a great
calamity from Morman treachery.  Reaching Portland in 1851, they made their
first home in Polk county, Oregon, but in 1853 removed to Grand Mound,
Washington Territory.  When the Indian war broke out, young Melancthon enlisted
in Captain Hays' Company, serving ten months.  At the dawn of peace following
this troublesome period, he leased a farm in Lewis county, and was engaged in
agriculture until 1860.  His next home was near Elma, where he lived on a farm
more than twenty years.  In 1883 he occupied his present residence at Montesano,
Washington, engaging in business as dealer in lumber and in real estate, being
thus employed at present.
  His public services have been important and various, - two terms as sheriff
and two terms as assessor of Chehalis county.  In 1882 he held a seat in the
legislature, to which he was re-elected in 1884.  He is at present mayor of
Montesano.
  He was married in 1858 to Miss Rebecca Byles, a native of Kentucky, but an
early resident of Thurston county.  They have eight children."


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