GOODWIN, George 1851 - 1908

GOODWIN

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/23/2021 at 17:43:29

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Feb. 25, 1908, 3, C6

Dismissed Conductor Was to Have Been Reinstated.
Had Conductor George Goodwin of Clinton, who shot himself after dismissal from the service, in which he had grown gray, withheld his deed a few hours, all would have been well. An official of the company reached Clinton to inform the old conductor that he was to be reinstated. Coming into the city, on a late train, he decided to wait until morning to communicate with Conductor Goodwin. Meanwhile the conductor, crazed by worry because of the company’s action, shot and killed himself.

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows he is buried in Springdale Cemetery in Clinton, IA and was born in 1851 and died February 9, 1908.