GOODALL, Arthur Sr.

GOODALL, OGRADY, GARRISON, DUNN, KENNEDY, FENDLY, BYERS, QUINLAN, TINEREY, QUINN, OROUKE, FITZGERALD, BURNS, SPAIN, OBRIEN, MANION, BURKER, MONHANNA, BURKE, ODAY, CAVEY, ALDRICH, MCCARTY, MANON

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Date: 1/19/2003 at 00:04:34

Source: The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.

ARTHUR GOODALL, SR.

The old and honored citizen of Quigley whose name introduces this review was born in County Wexford, Ireland, November 18, 1819, and is a son of Arthur and Martha (O’Grady) Goodall, also natives of County Wexford. His parents came to America in 1847 and settled in Ottawa, Canada, where they spent the remainder of their lives. There the father owned a farm of four hundred acres. In the family were the following children: Arthur, our subject; Ann, deceased wife of John Garrison, of Canada; Mary, deceased wife of John Dunn, of Waverly, Iowa; Eliza, deceased wife of James Kennedy, of Ottawa, Canada; Margaret, wife of a Mr. Fendly, of the same place; Martha, who married and is now deceased; Sarah, deceased wife of William Buyers, of Montreal, Canada; Catherine married Thomas Quinlan and resides in Ottawa; Charles, who wedded Mary Quinlan and lives in Ottawa; John, who married Mary Pahlen and makes his home in South Dakota; and two sons who died young.

It was the 1st of May, 1840, that Arthur Goodall came to the United States as one of the one hundred and seventy passenger on the Gento of Boston, which made the voyage at this time in six weeks. After spending a month in New York City our subject went to Philadelphia, where he engaged in farming for a short time at seven dollars and a half per month. Going to the east coast of Maryland, he became engaged in shad and herring fishing on the Chesapeake bay, using a seine five miles long and twenty feet deep, which required forty-two men and four horses to operate. Mr. Goodall devoted two summers to that occupation, and then went to New Castle county, Delaware, where he worked at farming for about a year. In the fall of 1844 he sailed from Philadelphia for the old world on the Thomas B. cope, and after twenty days spent upon the water landed in Liverpool, whence he went by steamer to Ireland, where he visited with his father’s family until the following spring. He then took passage on The Old Dam, which sailed from New Ross, Ireland, to Quebec, Canada, in six weeks. In the latter city he worked as a longshoreman during the summer and in the winter was employed in the lumber woods, being thus engaged until his parents came to America. He then assisted his father in the operation of the home farm until 1850, when the family gave him one hundred acres of land.

Selling his property in 1851, Mr. Goodall came to Iowa. Going first to Ogdensburg, New York, he sailed up Lake Ontario to Lewiston, and then crossed to Buffalo, where he took passage on a vessel bound for Detroit. From the latter city he went to Chicago, part way by rail, and then to LaSalle, Illinois, whence he went down the Illinois river to St. Louis and up the Mississippi to Dubuque. From that place he walked to Quigley, Clinton county. Here he made a claim of two hundred and forty acres. In 1854, he entered two hundred and forty acres of land in Bloomfield township, and was successfully engaged in farming until 1900, when he divided his property, then consisting of five hundred and twenty acres among his children. Since then he has lived a retired life in the little town of Quigley, where he owns a fine residence.

On the 18th of February, 1849, in Richmond, Canada, Mr. Godall was united in marriage with Miss Catherine Tinerey, who was born in that country in October, 1829. Her parents, Dennis and Julia (Quinn) Tinerey, were both natives of County Tiperary, Ireland, and in 1815 emigrated to Canada, where they continued to make their home until death. Their other children were Anna, wife of James O’Rouke of Rochester, Minnesota; Dennis, who married Anna Fitzgerald, and both died in Lyons, Iowa; James, who married Anna Burns and lives near Ottawa, Canada; Murt, who is married and makes his home near San Francisco California; Julia, widow of Michael Spain and a resident of Canada; Nancy, wife of John O’Brien, who lives near Rochester, Minnesota; and Bridget, who is the widow of John Manion and makes her home near Ottawa, Canada.

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Goodall were born eleven children, as follows” Dennis wedded Margaret Burker and resides on a farm near Toronto, Iowa: Mary is the wife of Burt Monhanna, of Charlotte, Clinton county; Anna is the wife of Martin Burke, of Charlotte; Francis married Dollie O’Day and is a conductor on an electric railroad in Omaha, Nebraska; Charles married Winnie Cavey and makes his home in Delmar, Clinton county; Martha died at the age of twenty-four years; Arthur married Alice Aldrich and is a farmer of Waterford township; Julia died at the age of eighteen years; Sarah is the wife of Patrick McCarty, a merchant of Tama City, Iowa; James married Margaret Monhanna and resides west of Quigley; and John married Catherine Manon and lives in Quigley.

In politics Mr. Goodall is independent, casting his ballot for the men whom he believes best qualified for office, regardless of party affiliations. He has filled the office of road supervisor, and has always taken a commendable interest in public affairs. Religiously he is a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church. A man of industrious habits and good business ability, he has attained a well-deserved success in life, and can well afford to spend his remaining days in ease and quiet in the midst of his family and a large circle of friends and acquaintances, who esteem who highly for his sterling worth.