Charles Clement Goodale (1925)
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Winterset Madisonian
Thursday, October 15, 1925
Page 1C. C. GOODALE DIES IN COLO.
Was Prominent Early Settler Served as County Auditor and Madisonian Editor
C. C. Goodale, one of the prominent citizens of Madison county in the period following the civil war, died at his home in Lamar, Colo., on the 5th, at the age of eighty.
Mr. Goodale, who was born in Vermont in 1844, came to Jefferson township, this county, in 1865, after serving with Company C of the Third Iowa Infantry. He was one of the Clayton county group of men and women who took a prominent part in the affairs of this county. He hired out as a farm hand, taught school, was elected and re-elected county auditor and in 1878 bought an interest in the Madisonian, the partnership being Cummings & Goodale. In 1883 he sold his interest in the Madisonian to E. R. Zeller and soon afterward moved west to make his home at Lamar.
He was a man who had an active part in the affairs of Madison county and enjoyed the confidence and respect of his associates in business and politics to an unusual degree. He never lost interest in the old home town and his associates of earlier days. A few weeks ago, he sent by his former neighbor, Peter Lynch, a message to his old neighbors and friends here and expressed his regret in not being able to attend the annual reunion of old settlers.
He is survived by Mrs. Goodale, whose maiden name was Sarah McManus, and four children, besides numerous grandchildren.
_________________________Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, October 22, 1925Madison County Pioneer Passes
Judge Goodale, Long Ago Editor, Lawyer, G.A.R. Veteran, Dies at Lamar, Colo. Delivered First Independence Day Address Here.
The obituary of Judge Goodale, of Lamar, Colo., comes to The Echo through the courtesy of C. H. Wilson of Hasty. Mr. Wilson states in a letter that Judge Goodale delivered the first Fourth of July address ever made in Earlham, and was a personal friend of Dayton Barnett and Milton Wilson, the latter then one of the county supervisors. He was once a law partner of Judge Wilkinson and a political friend of Edd Conger, Dexter farmer and banker, congressman and Minister to Brazil and China. Judge Goodale was at one time editor of the Madisonian, Winterset newspaper, perhaps the first editor. The following biography is taken from the Lamar Register of October 14:
When death entered the home of Charles Clement Goodale on South Main street last Thursday evening at 8:45 o’clock and called the staunch spirit of that stalwart old Roman to answer the last bugle, it marked the passing of the dominant figure of the first third of a century of Lamar’s history—that part of the town’s life when its existence was in the balance, its future in the making.
He lived far beyond the allotted span of man, but always as soldier, school teacher, lawyer, editor, public official and business man was in the front rank doing his full share in the most efficient manner. Entering the army in defense of his country when a mere boy, he was in the thick of the fighting until his regiment was captured, and during months of horrible suffering in the Southern prisons his unflinching courage and iron will carried him through where others gave up and died. He returned home and in the trying days that followed he educated himself and at the same time supported his mother by teaching school in country districts of Iowa. At an age when most men are beginning to think their life’s work as being rounded out, he took up the study of law and became a leader of that great profession wherever he afterwards located.
As an old veteran of the G.A.R. all of the boys in blue were his comrades, no matter what their condition and circumstances. He never failed them in time of need, and no appeal from them ever failed to bring his helping hand.
Charles Clement Goodale was born at Addison, in the hills of Vermont, on December 27, 1844. His boyhood was spent in Essex County, New York, and at the age of thirteen he moved to Farmersburg, Clayton County, Iowa, where his parents located on a farm. He worked on a farm and studied at the country school for a few years and then began teaching the school himself. While still only a boy he answered President Lincoln’s call for volunteers and enlisted in the Third Iowa infantry, which was afterwards consolidated with the Second Regiment. He saw active service at the front from the start and on the third day of the desperate battles around Atlanta when General Sherman started his famous march to the sea, what was left of the regiment was captured and taken to Andersonville prison. Not daunted by their disaster these men, when the rebel guards tried to grow over them by parading with the flag captured with the regiment, rushed the guards, captured the flag and hid it. He was confined there and at Florence, South Carolina, until paroled and turned over to General Sherman at Charleston Bay on Christmas Day, 1864. That day always stayed fixed in his memory and heart, and no one regarded the starry flag with greater reverence, love and devotion than he did throughout his long span of years. He was mustered out in June 1865, and returned to his home in Iowa, where he continued to farm and teach school until his mother’s death when he moved to Madison county and at once began to take a prominent part in its affairs. He was elected county auditor and took up the study of law which from that time became his chosen profession. He visited Lamar, Colorado, where some of his old-time friends had located, in August 1886, and decided to locate here. He filed on land and purchased city property. He moved here with his family in April 1887, and from that time his history and the town’s have been so intertwined that the story of one could rest be told without that of the other.
He was register of the Lamar Land Office from 1890 to 1904 appointed by President Harrison. Again under appointment by President McKinley he was U.S. Surveyor General for Colorado, appointed in February, 1899. During the four years of the latter term he resided in Denver, but returned to Lamar at once when his term expired. He was nominee on the McKinley electoral ticket for Colorado in the election of 18--, and while overwhelmingly defeated was as happy as any of his opponents for the victory of McKinley was all he cared for. He was nominated for attorney general on the regular republican ticket in 1898, but when a compromise was affected with the silver republicans he retired at once.
In the Masonic circles he was a most prominent figure, as he was one of the three 33rd Degree Masons of the eastern part of the valley and the oldest member in years of Masonry, having been raised to the Master Mason Degree on April 12, 1866, in Evening Star Lodge No. 43 of Iowa.
He was made a Knight Templar in Winterset, Iowa, nearly fifty years ago, and became a charter member of Malta Commandery No. 32, of which he was Eminent Commander in 1913, when the Grand Conclave of the Order met in Denver. He took all the Scottish Rite Degrees to the 32nd, and was Wise Master of Rose Croix Chapter of the Pueblo Consistory. His high place in Masonry was recognized in January, 1924, by his election to the honor of the 33rd Degree which was conferred in Denver by order of the Southern Jurisdiction of the order at Washington. He was a member of the G.A.R. since the foundation of that great organization and was also a member of Lamar Lodge No. 1319 B.P.O. Elks.
While retiring from active business in most lines a few years ago he remained actively connected with the law office of Goodale & Horn to the end. He was stricken by typhoid fever about two weeks before his death and while he made a brave fight his advanced years had weakened his resistance and in the end he passed peacefully to sleep.
He was married to Sarah Jane McManus on May 25th, 1870, in Madison County, Iowa, and they celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary in Lamar on May 25th, 1920. To this union were born seven children, four of whom, with the widow, survive to mourn the loss which has so greatly affected the entire community. Mrs. W. W. Cooper, of Lamar, Miss Nelle Goodale of San Francisco, S. W. Goodale of Reno, Nevada, and H. J. Goodale of Helena, Montana are the surviving children. George Frederick died in Lamar in 1895; Mrs. Eva Winslow, a daughter, died at Winnipeg, Canada, in 1919, and Rollin C. Goodale at Hugo, Colorado, in 1923. All are buried in Riverside cemetery in Lamar.
The funeral services were held from the M.E. Church on Sunday afternoon and were attended by a gathering of friends that overran the church and surrounding streets. The concourse that followed the body to its last resting place was many blocks in length, and the beautiful ritual service of the Masonic Order was given in full notwithstanding the downpour of rain.
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