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Arthur E. Goshorn (1946)

GOSHORN, RHODES, SHRIVER, TATE, WILSON, WINTRODE

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 11/7/2006 at 21:50:29

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, January 01, 1947

ARTHUR GOSHORN, Winterset Editor, Dies at 88 Years

Published Newspaper Here for More Than Half Century

In the death of Arthur E. Goshorn, which occurred at his home in Winterset last Thursday, this community lost a citizen whose varied activities during his long life exerted an influence far outside the bounds of his native county.

As an editor and publisher of the Winterset News for half a century, his name was known throughtout Iowa. As a geologist and naturalist, he contributed to the records much of scientific value concerning this section of the state.

Mr. Goshorn's death occurred here last Thursday after an illness of but a few days, although he had been in failing health for several years. He was 88 years of age.

He was a member of a prominent early day family in Winterset. His father was Capt. John Stuart Goshorn, pioneer school teacher who came to Winterset in 1854, and who recruited and served as commanding officer of Company E, 47th Iowa infantry in the Civil war. His mother was Hettie Jane Goshorn.

He attended the Winterset schools and graduated from the local high school, and from the State University of Iowa with the class of 1880. While at Iowa City he played as catcher on the first baseball team organized at the state university, and received the first honoray "I" letter for participation in intercollegiate sports.

At the university he majored in science and geology, and at the request of Dr. Calvin of the department of geology, he made a collection of fossils in Madison county, the first such collection to be presented to the university. Another of his collections of rare fossils is displayed in the shelter house at Pammel state park.

As an amateur geologist, his knowledge of stones brought eminent geologists from all parts of the country to examine local rock formations. He was an active member of the Iowa Academy of Science.

As a young man he taught in the Winterset South ward school, before going to Pierce, Nebr., in 1883 to establish the Pierce Times, a democratic newspaper. In 1887 he disposed of that paper and returned to Winterset, and in 1888 he purchased the Winterset News, which he owned and operated continuously for 53 years, until his retirement in 1941.

He was an outdoor man, and an authority on life of field and stream. He was a familiar figure in Madison county, with a gun over his shoulder and a dog at his heels. His weekly column in the News was widely read. Most of the material for it was gathered from the outdoors, and the trips he made.

He was one of the organizers of the Winterset Country club, and was elected president of the Izaak Walton league at its first meeting in Winterset.

He was married in August, 1883 to Kate Shriver, who preceded hm in death, July 2, 1911. Surviving this marriage are four children: Mrs. Horace Tate of Des Moines, Robert Goshorn of Jefferson City, Mo., Mrs. John Wintrode, and Mrs. O. L. Wilson, both of St. Petersburg, Fla. He was married a second time on June 19, 1914, to Gertrude Rhodes. She survives him, together with their son, Arthur Goshorn, Jr.,of Oskaloosa. He also leaves six grandchildren.

Funeral services were held here Sunday from the Ramsey-Richards funeral home, in charge of the Rev. Arthur Strong, pastor of the First Presbyterian church. Burial was made in the Winterset cemetery.

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