Crook County WY Archives Biographies.....Good, Willard 
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Author: Bowen & Co. (1903)

WILLARD GOOD.

   Born on April 3, 1858, in Bartholomew county, Indiana, the son of Thomas and
Lucy A. (Piersol) Good, removing with his parents to the frontier of Iowa when
but a small boy, and beginning life for himself at the age of fourteen, William
Good of Crook county has passed almost his entire earthly existence among
pioneers, surrounded by the scenes of new countries as yet undeveloped and just
awaking to systematic production and improvement. His father was a native of
Indiana and his mother of Pennsylvania. The father farmed in Indiana until 1870
when he removed his family to Jefferson county, Iowa, and there followed his
regular vocation for a period of seven years at the end of which he went to
Missouri for a time, then returned to Indiana where he has since resided.
Willard Good received a limited education in the public schools of Jefferson
county, Iowa, remaining at home and working with his father on the farm until he
was fourteen years old. He then left the parental roof and taking up the burden
of life for himself, proceeding to the northern part of the state and working on
farms for eighteen months, thence going to Davis county, Mo., where his parents
were living, and worked on a railroad for a year and a quarter, in 1880 coming
to South Dakota, where he located at Spearfish for nearly a year, then went to
Central City in that state and made mining his occupation for a year, and going
to Missouri to spend the winter. In the spring of 1884 he found a permanent
resting place in Crook county, Wyo., locating on the ranch he now occupies two
miles northwest of Sundance, where he has since been engaged in raising cattle
and developing the agricultural features of a tract of land on which nature
lavished a wealth of fruitfulness which only needed the hand of the husbandman
to make it ready for enjoyment. It comprises 700 acres and has been well
improved with necessary buildings and careful cultivation, diligence and skill
having made it one of the most desirable ranches in this portion of the state,
as it was one of the first to be taken up, there being when Mr. Good settled
here very few residents in the section. On March 1, 1883, at Bethany, Mo., he
married Miss Melissa Piles, a native of Kentucky. They have two children, Alice
and Willard. Mr. Good is an ardent Democrat in politics and gives to his party a
zealous and devoted loyalty, yet seeks not for himself its places of honor and
influence, being content to push forward the advance of his section of the state
as a worker in the ranks of progress.


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A people who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors, will
never achieve anything worthy to he remembered with pride by remote
generations.—.MACAULAY.

CHICAGO, ILL.
A. W. BOWEN & CO.
PUBLISHERS AND ENGRAVERS
1903


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