FRANK C. GOODALE
Frank C. Goodale of Pymosa township, is a son of Thomas Jefferson Goodale, one of the pioneers of Cass county. The latter came here July 17, 1853. He entered during that year, land in section 6, of Benton township, and from that time until 1856 entered a large amount of land, comprising not less than fifteen hundred acres in the townships of Benton and Pymosa. In addition to this he entered a large tracts of land for other parties, both in Cass and Audubon counties. The homestead on which he settled and resided till his death, was on the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 6, of Benton township. He owned at one time the whole of that section. Thomas Jefferson Goodale was born in Conecticut, in 1802, but was reared upon a farm in Vermont. When a young man he went to Ohio, where he was married to Almira Pattee, his present widow. She was born in Canada but went to New York when quite young, thence to Ohio. Several years after his marriage, Mr. Goodale removed to Allen county, Indiana, where he improved a farm of timbered land, and lived for eighteen years, or until the summer of 1853. He was prominent among the pioneers of this region and perhaps the name of no old settler is more intimately connected with the history of Cass county, than that of Jefferson Goodale. His death occurred at the homestead in Benton township, October 2, 1882. He lacked only a few weeks of reaching the advanced age of eighty years. His widow still lives at the homestead. Mr. and Mrs. Goodale had a family of eleven children, of whom seven are now living...Almon, in Nebraska; Mrs. Mary A. Hoyt, in Colorado, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Everett, also in Colorado; Mrs. Harriet M. Campbell, in Pymosa; Mrs. Hannah A. Johnson, in Atlantic; Frank C. and Mrs. Sarah J. Case, of Atlantic. Frank C. Goodale was born in Indiana in 1842. He came here with his father in 1853, being then eleven years old, just the proper age to retain a vivid recollection of the pioneer times of Cass county. He was married to Isabel Tatlow, daughter of Thomas W. Tatlow, an early settler in Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Goodale have six children...William E., Dora, George W., Ira B., Mabel and Beecher. Mr. Goodale resides on the south half of the northeast quarter of section 11, which was included in the entries made by his father.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 573.
