Biographies from The History of Columbia County,
Wisconsin, 1880 


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From The History of Columbia County, Wisconsin, 1880,
publ. by Western Historical Company, Chicago, Page
899-900

B. F. GOODELL was born in Ashtabula Co., Ohio, July
12, 1843; when about 7 years of age, he removed with
his mother to Marquette Co., Wis., where he was
married, May 16, 1865, to Mary L. WALDREF; two
children have been born to them - Mary A. and Guy F.
Mr. GOODELL has been in the newspaper business for
many years, being now one of the proprietors of the
Wisconsin State Register.

Page 900

PHILIP GOODMAN, dealer in ready-made clothing and
merchant tailoring; was born in Bavaria Feb. 2, 1846,
and came to America in 1861 to Pontiac, Mich., where
he remained only a short time, moving to Port Huron,
where he lived one year; he then went to Rochester,
N.Y., where he remained three years.  Married Sarah N.
CARDOZA in Rochester in 1866; she was born in London,
England; they have two sons - Morris W. and Louis.

DARIUS A. GOODYEAR was born in Sopronius, N.Y., Aug.
9, 1822; is the son of John and Julia (BRADLEY)
GOODYEAR; when an infant, his parents removed to
Genesee Co., N.Y., near Batavria; lived there only a
year or two, when his parents died, and the children
were taken back to Cayuga Co., where he remained until
about 6 years of age, then to Chemung Co.; remained in
that county two years, when he went to Ft. Defiance,
Ohio, where he remained until a lad of about 15 years
of age; during the next five years, was in Brooklyn
and New York City most of the time up to 1841; was
employed as clerk and collector for a large lumbering
and commission house.  In the year 1846, he engaged in
business with his brother-in-law, C. C. WATERHOUSE
(lumberyards in Brooklyn and commission house in New
York).  Mr. GOODYEAR took charge of the lumber yard in
Brooklyn, and continued there up to the time of coming
to Portage; in the spring of 1858, engaged in the
lumber business, and has continued in it ever since,
manufacturing now at MATHER, or GOODYEAR's Mills.  He
is the owner of large tracts of pine lands in this
State.  Mr. G. has been engaged in the lumber trade
most of the time alone; his son, Charles A. is now
associated with him, and has been since 1876 in the
mercantile business, which has been carried on it
connection with his mills; manufactures annually
between four and five million feet.  Mr. G. was
married at Johnson's Settlement, near Havana, Schuyler
Co., N.Y., in the spring of 1848, to Mary Ann
WATERHOUSE; she died in Brooklyn Dec. 7, 1849, leaving
one son - Charles A., born Sept. 22, 1849; present
wife was Sarah HOLMES, married near Ithaca, N.Y.,
April 16, 1851; she was born in Solon, Cortland Co.,
N.Y., daughter of Linus and Mary (LINDSEY) HOLMES; her
father now resides with them; he is a native of
Colerain, Mass., and was born in 1797; her mother died
in September 1877, aged 81 years.  Charles A. married
Fannie, daughter of Alva STEWART, Sept. 11, 1872; they
have three children - Alva, born Apirl 18,1875; Mary
Bell, Sept. 19, 1877, and Ella Josephine, born at
Tomah Feb. 23, 1880.  Mr. GOODYEAR has made two trips
to California.  He has been Alderman one term.

HOMER S. GOSS, a native of Vermont; born in Randolph,
Orange Co., Vt., Nov. 30, 1838, and remained there
until coming to Portage in April 1861, and engaged in
clerking for O. WARD in the dry-goods business;
remained with him a year and a half; afterward with A.
D. FORBES dry-goods merchant, also remaining with him
a few months, while he engaged with MILES & Co., and
their successor, John GRAHAM, where he still remains. 
Mr. G. is a member of the A.F. & A.M.

JAMES GOWRAN was born in Ft. Ann, Washington Co.,
N.Y., Oct. 13, 1833, and resided there until he
enlisted in the 16th N.Y. Heavy Artillery Co., I, at
Troy, N.Y., Sept. 7, 1864; was mustered out of the
United States service at Alexandria, Va., Aug. 1,
1865, and out of State service at Hart's Island, near
New York City, same month; came to Wisconsin in the
fall of 1865, locating on a farm in the town of New
Haven, Adams Co., when he came to Portage; was in
business one year with H. O. LEWIS, and in trade by
himself for last six years, selling agricultural
implements.  Mr. G. was married at Ft. Ann, April
1856, to Mary Ann STPEHENS; they have two children -
Edward A. and Carlton C.  Mr. G. is a charter member
of the Temple of Honor and of the A.O.U.W.

ROBERT GRACE, passenger engineer, C.M. & St. P. R.R.;
born in Hyde Park, Dutchess Co, N.Y., in July 1841; he
is a son of Patrick and Catherine GRACE; his father
was 21 years and 6 months in the employ of one man,
James H. WILKES, in Dutchess Co., N.Y.; Robert is one
of a family of sixteen children, of whom fifteen were
boys; only three are now living - Joseph, Oliver, and
the subject of this sketch; he came West in the fall
of 1855; began working for the railroad company in
1857, as engine wiper, then as fireman, and since
1864, as engineer.  Was married June 15, 1868, to Miss
Louisa DALL; she is a native of Wisconsin, and was
twelve years chief dining-room girl at Fox's Hotel, in
Portage; have four children - Willie, born 1870;
Oliver, 1875; Myra L., 1877, and Horace Greeley, 1880.
He is an earnest and consistent Temperance man; was a
leading organizer, and is a loyal supporter of the
Headlight Temple of Honor, No. 163 in Portage; he owns
a neat brick residence near the depot.

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