Jay L Goddard

GODDARD, MOORE, STELK

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Date: 7/7/2007 at 10:54:03

A Narrative History
of
The People of Iowa
with
SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN
EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY,
BUSINESS, ETC.
by
EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M.
Curator of the
Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa
Volume IV
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc.
Chicago and New York
1931

JAY L. GODDARD, manager of the order department of the Bettendorf Company,
has been continuously identified with that great Davenport industry, located in
the Town of Bettendorf, for over a quarter of a century.

Mr. Goddard was born on a farm in Clinton County, and his people on both
sides were of Territorial Iowa Stock. He is a son of James Monroe and Sarah E.
(Moore) Goddard. His father, now living at Davenport, was born in the same
locality in 1849. The founder of the family was the great-grandfather, Eli
Goddard, who in 1836 drove a wagon drawn by ox teams across the country from
New York State, passing through Chicago, which had not yet incorporated as a
city, and on to the new lands lying west of the Mississippi and which had just
been opened to settlement following the Blackhawk Indian war. Eli Goddard
became a man of much prominence in Clinton County in the early days. He was
active in connection with the founding of schools, churches, and was elected a
member of the Iowa Territorial Assembly, riding horseback from his farm to
Iowa City, then the capital. Mr. Goddard's grandfather was George Goddard, who
was a child when the family came to Iowa. Sarah Moore Goddard, mother of J.
L. Goddard, was born in Indiana and was two years of age when her father,
Jacob Moore, drove across the country in 1844 and settled on a farm near
Bennett in Cedar County, Iowa.

Jay L. Goddard grew up on the home farm, attended public schools and at the
age of fifteen became a student in the Duncan Business College at Davenport.
His first work with the Bettendorf Company was as bookkeeper. For seven
years he was with the Penn Oil & Supply Company and then returned to the
Bettendorf Company and for twenty-five years has had the management of the order
department. He is a member of the Bettendorf Loyalty Club, made up of employes
of the company who have been in the service longer than fifteen years.

Mr. Goddard has in many ways contributed to the building up of Bettendorf as
a model industrial town, with good schools and other facilities. He is vice
president of the Kiwanis Club, is a member of the Davenport Chamber of
Commerce, and the Bettendorf Social Club and Davenport Country Club. He is
affiliated with Trinity Lodge No. 208, A. F. and A. M., Zarephath Consistory of the
Scottish Rite Masons, Kaaba Temple of the Mystic Shrine and Mohassan Grotto
No. 22.

Mr. Goddard married, in 1907, Dorothy Stelk, of Moline, Illinois. They have
one son, Warren, now attending a military academy in Illinois.