BIOGRAPHIES:  Chauncey S. GOODRICH, Durand, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by Nance Sampson, Pepin Co. Archives File Manager on 19 November 2004
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Chauncey S. Goodrich, farmer, P. O. Durand, was born in Franklin,
Delaware county, N. Y., September 4, 1815.  His parents' names were
Ashbell and Lois (Northrup) Goodrich.  His paternal grandfather was one
of three brothers who emigrated from England to America about the
middle of the eighteenth century.  Ashbell Goodrich died at French
Creek, Chautauqua county, N. Y., about 1865.  Mrs. Lois Goodrich was a
daughter of the celebrated divine, Josiah N. Northrup.  Her children
were:  Erastus, Mary Ann (Mrs. Grant), Ashbell, Emanuel, Chauncey S.,
Julia Ann (Mrs. J. Willis), Sylvester, Alonzo, and Phoebe (Mrs. U.
Hulitt).  When the subject of this sketch was about ten years old, he
worked in a cotton factory at Sangerfield, N. Y., for about a year. 
Soon after, the family removed to Chautauqua county, where he attended
Mayville academy.  At nineteen he began teaching, and followed that
occupation in winter for about ten years.  Later he conducted his
father's farm.  About 1849 he made a trip to Louisiana, where he
engaged in chopping.  April 12, 1855, he married Mrs. Amy M. White,
daughter of Alpheus Williams.  The latter was born near Providence, R.
I., and was descended from Roger Williams, the founder of that state. 
Each of the following names represent a generation:  Roger, Joseph,
James, Nathaniel, Frederick and Alpheus.  Mrs. Goodrich was born near
Buffalo, N. Y.   Her mother, Sally (Crampton) Williams, was a
descendant of the famous Sir William Wallace, and her grandmother was
born on the ocean while on the way to America.  From the age of twelve
years Mrs. Goodrich has supported herself.  She attended Westfield
academy about four years, working out and teaching at intervals to earn
money therefor.  Thus early were established those habits of industry
and perseverance which have characterized her whole life.  The next day
after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Goodrich started out to seek a home
in the west.  They first stopped at La Motte, Iowa, where they lived on
a farm until 1857, when they came to Waubeek and purchased their
present farm, which has been devoted largely to dairying.  Mrs.
Goodrich estimates that she has made about 120,000 pounds of butter and
cheese.

Mr. and Mrs. Goodrich have but two children.  The elder, Sylvester,
was born at La Motte, and still lives with his parents and carries on
the farm, which now contains 360 acres.  He is a member of the Baptist
church.  The second child, Jennie M., is a graduate of the State Normal
school at River Falls.  She has taught several years at Eau Claire and
elsewhere, and is now serving a second term as superintendent of
schools in Pepin county.  Our subject has been a deacon of the Baptist
church for about forty-five years.  He has always taken an active part
in temperance work and in the building of schools, churches and other
public improvements.  In politics he is a prohibitionist.  He has
served the town as supervisor, assessor, justice of the peace, etc. 
During the high water of 1884, considerable damage was done to his
stock and grain, and the water was from ten to fourteen inches deep on
the first floor of his residence.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," pages 706-707.


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