Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Goodman, Ephraim D. 1845 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 November 1, 2008, 8:16 pm Author: Western Historical Society (1879) EPHRAIM D. GOODMAN, mason, Sec. 7; P. O. Kenosha; born Sept. 1, 1845, in Ware, Hertfordshire, Eng.; came to America in 1856, and settled in Chicago, where he learned his trade, and worked at it. He went to California in 1870; returned and located in Pleasant Prairie in 1871. He built the German Catholic Church, Whitaker Foundry, completed the Masonic Lodge, and erected many other buildings in Kenosha City. He also farms about sixteen acres of land. Married Miss Hannah Jones, of Shropshire, Eng., May 4, 1865, and has four children-Charles H., born Feb. 8, 1866; Willard F., July 15, 1871; Frank A., Aug. 26, 1873, and Goldie A., June 29, 1877. Additional Comments: Extracted from: THE HISTORY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES, WISCONSIN, CONTAINING A HISTORY OF EACH COUNTY, ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT, RESOURCES, ETC., AN EXTENSIVE AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, THEIR IMPROVEMENTS, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETIES, ETC., ETC., WAR RECORD, BIOGRAPHICAL 8KBTCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY SETTLERS, VIEWS OF BUILDINGS, ETC., ETC.; ALSO HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, COSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF WI8CON8IN, CONDEN8ED AB8TRACT OF LAWS OF WI8CONSIN, MISCELLANEOUS, ETC., ETC. ILLUSTRATED. CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY. MDCCCLXXIX. (1879) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/kenosha/bios/goodman581nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wifiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb