John E. Goodenow

GOODENOW

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 4/8/2009 at 22:55:27

Maquoketa Excelsior
March 26, 1900

John E. Goodenow
“The Father of Maquoketa.”

Friday last marked the passing of another year in the history of our venerable townsman, John E. Goodenow, it being the 88th anniversary of that hale and hearty gentleman’s birth, which occurred at Springfield, Windsor Co., Vermont, March 23, 1812.

In honor of the happy event he and his estimable wife gathered around them their children, their children’s children and other relatives to the number of nearly forty. Although the celebration was a quiet one, it was none the less happy, and doubly happy to the host who is never so happy as when entertaining and giving pleasure to others.

Although at so advanced an age and a man who has never known an idle day, Mr. Goodenow is remarkably able both physically and mentally and gets about with a spryness which many a younger man might envy. That his vitality may so remain for the celebration of many more such pleasant anniversaries his friends all sincerely hope.

Besides a number of friends and neighbors who called in to pay their respects, all his children were present, with some of them with their families. They are: Mrs. D. H. Anderson, Oce, George and W. S., of this city, Mesdames D. N. Holcomb, Geo. Perham and F. S. Tinker of Chicago. Other relatives present were his brother, Royal Goodenow, wife and daughter, Mrs. Butterworth, his sister, Mrs. Cynthia Fitch, another sister, Mrs. W. M. Bentley, and daughter, Mrs. McDowell, of Clinton, and sister-in-law, Mrs. Hosea Goodenow, and son, Luke, and wife.

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