GOODE
GOODELL
into the pro-slavery wing of bis church. After
twelve years in the itinerancy and a year as presi-
dent of Whitewater college, he was appointed
superintendent of missions in Kansas and Ne-
braska, and for ten years was engaged chiefly
upon the frontier. His field of labor included all
the region from Texas on the south and the
Nebraska frontier on the north, between the state
boundaries on the east and the Rocky mountains
on tlie west. He traversed this territory from
east to west twenty-seven times, visited all the
frontier settlements in their infancy, and estab-
lished missions among the Wyaudots, Delawares,
Shawnees and Kickapoos. His powers were virt-
ually those of a bishop, and he placed more than
one hundred ministers in permanent posts. In
18.55 the Kansas -and Nebraska conference was
organized under his presidency in a cloth tent on
the plains at Laramie. The Nebraska conference
was formed by hiiu in 1860 and the Colorado con-
ference in 1864. The latter years of his life were
passed at Richmond, Ind. He was forty years
in the ministry, twenty -seven years a presid-
ing elder, and was seven times elected to the
General conference. He received the degree of
D. D. from Indiana Asbury university in 1869.
He published Outposts of Zion (1863). His son
Philip Hayes Goode (1835-56) of Villiska, Iowa,
served, 1861-6.5, in the Mississippi campaigns, was
captain in the -Ith Iowa battery and was wounded
at Pittsburg Landing. Dr. Goode died at Rich-
mond, Inil., Dec. 16, 1879.
QOODE, William Osborne, representative, was born at " Inglewood,"' Mecklenburg county, Va., Sept. 16, 1798; son of Capt. John Chester- field and Lucy (Claiborne) Goode, and grandson of Thomas and Agnes (Osborne) Goode. His father was an officer of the war of 1812, a student at William and Mary coUege, a member of the Vir- ginia house of burgesses and, like his own father, a wealthy planter. The son was graduated at William and Mary in 1819, and began law pi-actice at Boydton in 1831. He entered the state legisla- ture and as an advocate of gradual emancipa- tion took part in the debates in 1833, and was a delegate to the State reform conventions. He served as a representative in the 37th congress. 18-11-43, again in the 33d, 34th and 35th con- gresses, 1853-59, and was re-elected to the 3Gth congress but died before taking his seat. In the interim of his congressional terms he served in the state legislature and was th?ice elected speaker of the house of delegates. He was a member of the state reform convention of 1850, chairman of the legislative committee, and a member of the house of delegates called to put the new con.stitution into operation. He was married to Sarah Maria, dancrhter of Thomas Massie. He died at Boydton, Va., July 3, 1859.
QOODELL, Abner Cheney, inventor, wa»
born in North Orange, Mass., Feb. 9, 1805; son of
Zina and Joanna (Cheney ) Goodell ; grandson of
Joseph and Ann (Hopkins) Goodell, and of Eben-
ezer and Abigail (Thompson) Chenej-; great*
grandson of Joseph and Elizabeth (Goodell),
great^ grandson of Joseph and Mary, great'
grandson of Zachariah and Elizabeth (Beau-
champ), and great* grandson of Robert and
Katherine (Kilnam) Goodell of Dennington,
Suffolk, England, who sailed from Ipswich, Eng-
land, April 30, 1634, and settled in Salem, Mass.
Abner received a common school education and
worked as a machinist in Boston and at Cam-
bridgeport, where he began his inventions and
perfected the art of preparing steel and copper
plates for engravers. He continued this business
for a while in Ipswich, Mass. , and subsequently
worked as a machinist in Byfield and Lowell. At
Lowell he heljied to construct the first locomotive
used on the Boston & Lowell railroad, and to
build the first turntable. Among his inventions
was the first printing-press that printed on both
sides of a sheet at once. This he completed under
the patronage of Prof. Daniel Treadwell, Rum-
ford professor at Harvard, 1834-45. He also per-
fected a lozenge-cutting machine identical in
principle with the cracker machine which was
copied from it and afterward came into general
use. In 1837 he removed to Salem, where he
helped to build the first electric locomotive en-
gine, invented by Charles Grafton Page, which ran
between tlie cities of Baltimore, Md., and Wash-
ington, D.C. Here also he invented machines for
making kegs; for splitting and pointing shoe-
pegs ; for rolling tin tubes : for boring pump and
aqueduct logs; for punching and cutting cold
steel, and before 1840 he constructed and used
a tricycle propelled by foot-power. He died in
Salem, Mass., March 27, 1898.
QOODELL, Henry Hill, educator, was born in Constantinople, Turkey, Blay 20, 1839 ; son of the Rev. Dr. William and Abigail (Davis) Goodell. He was graduated from Amherst, A.B., 1862, A.M.. 1865, and served in the volimteer army as 2d and 1st lieutenant and afterward on the staff of Colonel Bissell in the 19th ami}' corps, 1862-63. He was professor of modern languages at Willis- ton seminary, Easthampton, Mass., 1864-67; held the same chair in the Massachusetts agricultural college, 1867-86, and was elected president of the latter institution in 1886. He is the author of: A Jiiographical Ile.cord of the Class of Si-fty-tioo of Amherst (1873) ; Compilation of Historic Fiction (1876) ; and numerous contributions to periodical literature.
QOODELL, Thomas Dwight, educator, was bom in Ellington, Conn.. Nov. 8, 18.54; son of Francis and S Louisa (Burpee) Goodell: grand-
