VOL. XLIV, No. 11

Among the notable families in northern New Hampshire during the early part of the last century was that of Goodall, whose first representative in that region was the Rev. David Goodall, a Congregational clergyman, who, after a somewhat extended pastorate in Halifax, Vt., removed to the town of Littleton, with his large family, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits, though contriving to preach as a supply, in various places, and engaging quite extensively in public affairs, having represented Littleton in the General Court twelve times between 1800 and 1815.

He was a descendant, in the fourth generation of that Robert Goodall, born in 1603, who embarked from Ispwich, England, April 1634 with his wife, Katherine, born 1605, and three children, and settled in Salem, Mass.

The line of descent is through John, son of Robert and Katherine, born 1680, who married Elizabeth Witt, and their son, Nathan, born January 10, 1709, who married Persis Whitney and settled in Marlboro, Mass., where their son, David, above named, was born, August 14, 1749. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1777; was a soldier in the Revolutionary army, serving under General Montgomery in Canada, studied for the ministry and became pastor of the Congregational Church at Halifax, Vt., in 1781, where he continued until nearly the close of the century when he removed to Littleton as before stated. His wife was Eliza

beth, daughter of Dr. Samuel Brigham of Marlboro, Mass. They had seven children, one of whom named Ira, was born in Halifax, Vt., August 1, 1788. He was educated in the Littleton schools and when twentyone years of age entered upon the study of law in the office of Moses C. Payson of Bath, once president of the State Senate and long prominent in legal and political circles. Upon his admission to the bar he settled. in practice in Bath, where he remained many years, filling a large place in professional, public and business life. He was the third postmaster of the town, was its representative in the legislature, and was at one time president of the White Mountain Railroad. He was also interested in military affairs, was Paymaster of the 32d Regiment, N. H. Militia and Judge Advocate on the staff of Gen. David Rankin. He removed to Beloit, Wisconsin, in 1856, where he died March 3, 1868. While in practice in Bath he was in partnership, first with Andrew S. Woods, who subsequently became justice of the Supreme Court; then with his son, Samuel H. Goodall, who, later, removed to Portsmouth, and, afterward, with the late Hon. Alonzo P. Carpenter, who also subsequently became an associate and finally Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and had long been known as one of the alert and most brilliant lawyers at the New Hampshire bar.

Ira Goodall married, May 9, 1812, Hannah C. Hutchins of Bath, a granddaughter of Jeremiah Hutchins, born 1736, who removed, from Haverhill,

Mass., to Bath in 1783, where he was also the head of a prominent family, among his descendants being President Harry Burns Hutchins of the University of Michigan. One of his sons, Samuel, born 1769, married Rosann Child, January 1794, and their eldest daughter was Hannah Child Hutchins, above named. Ira and Hannah C. (Hutchins) Goodall had twelve children-seven sons and five daughters. The youngest of their daughters-Julia Rosanna, became the wife of Hon. Alonzo P. Carpenter, and, for many years previous to her death, was known, throughout the state, not merely as the wife of an eminent jurist, but as one of the most earnest workers in New Hampshire along charitable and reform lines. She was the first president of the State Board of Charities and Corrections, and active in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and other prominent organizations for the promotion of human welfare, and has a worthy successor in her daughter, Lilian Carpenter Streeter, wife of Gen. Frank S. Streeter, the eminent Concord lawyer, who was the first president of the Concord Woman's Club, and of the New Hampshire Federation. of Women's Clubs, and is now presiIdent of the State Board of Charities and Corrections, giving much of her time and labor to its important work.

The youngest of the family were twin sons-Edward Brigham, now and for a long time past in dental practice in the city of Portsmouth, and Francis H., the last born, a brief mention of whom is the purpose of this sketch.

FRANCIS HENRY GOODALL was born in Bath, January 10, 1838, received his preliminary education in the public schools of his native town, and fitted for college in the Academy there, then taught by Alonzo P. Carpenter, who was himself a Williams College student at the time, engaging in teaching as a means of meeting his expenses, as was the custom of the ambitious and energetic youth of the

day; and in this connection it may properly be remarked that great as he was as a lawyer in after years, Mr. Carpenter was known, by those who enjoyed his close acquaintance, to be one of the best classical scholars of his day.

He entered Dartmouth College and graduated with the Class of 1857, among his classmates being the late Hon. Ira Colby of Claremont, Hon. William J. Forsaith, long a justice of the Municipal Court of Boston, the late Gen. Edward F. Noyes of Ohio, distinguished in the Union service in the Civil War, and later in political life, and that eminent jurist, the late Judge James B. Richardson of Massachusetts who died last year at his summer home in the town of Orford. After leaving college Mr. Goodall entered upon the study of the law in Mr. Carpenter's office in Bath and was admitted to the bar in 1859, locating in Beloit, Wisconsin, where he formed a partnership with Hon. R. H. Mills, then mayor of the city, and commanding a large business. His partnership continued until the outbreak of the Civil War, when Mr. Goodall enlisted April 13, 1861, for three months in a company of students from Beloit College, called the "Beloit Rifles," which was attached to the 2d Wisconsin active militia. He was honorably discharged from this service, and in August, 1862, returned to his native state where he joined a company then being organized, from the towns of Haverhill, Bath and Lisbon, for service in the 11th New Hampshire Regiment. This was Company G, Mr. Goodall being made 1st Sergeant and serving with the regiment until he was totally disabled, and was honorably discharged May 23, 1864. His record as a soldier was highly creditable, and his heroism is fully attested in the fact that he was accorded a medal of honor for taking a badly wounded comrade off the field of battle at Fredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862, under a heavy fire.

The following testimonial, filed in

his behalf, upon his recommendation for promotion, by Lieut.-Colonel Collins, is indicative of the character of his military service:

To Whom it May Concern: This may certify that while the undersigned was in command of Co. G, 11th N. H. Vols., Francis H. Goodall was First Sergeant of the company, and, from the knowledge then gained of his character and attainments, I most cordially recommend him as honest, industrious, discreet and absolutely reliable. As a soldier he was always ready to act, prompt to obey, attentive to duty and gallant in action.

of the Treasury, William Pitt Fessenden, as a first class clerk in the Second Auditor's office, but was unable to accept until September 17, 1864, when he was sworn into the service, and has been on active duty in the same office from that day to the present time. He was first private secretary to the Hon. E. B. French, Second Auditor of the Treasury, who was appointed by President Lincoln in August, 1861, and who served continuously in the same position until his death in 1879. There were only 21 men employed in this office

when the war began, but in 1866, 7, 8 and 9 the working force embraced no less than 500 clerks.

Mr. Goodall has been chief of two different divisions, and has held two appointments as disbursing clerk. He has served under nine different Auditors, two of whom were Democrats, and he has succeeded in commanding the esteem, confidence and hearty good will of all, by a uniform, steady, straight-forward course of action, doing his duty, faithfully and honestly, without fear, favor or hope. of reward, beyond the regular com

pensation and the approval of his own conscience.

The Divisions of which he served. as Chief were of the Mail and that for the Investigation of Fraud, to the latter of which he was appointed by Secretary John Sherman upon the recommendation of Auditor French. Upon the eve of his own retirement from office, Second Auditor William A. Day, now president of the New York Equitable Life Insurance Company addressed Mr. Goodall follows:

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
SECOND AUDITOR'S OFFICE
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 12, 1889.
MR. FRANCIS H. GOODALL,
SECOND AUDITOR'S OFFICE.

My Dear Sir:

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On the eve of my retirement, as Second Auditor of the Treasury, it affords me pleasure to bear testimony to the fidelity shown in your conscientious performance, during my incumbency of every duty assigned to you while in charge of the Divisions of the Mail and the Investigation of Fraud.

The unblemished integrity and keen perception you have exercised in the watchful management of two of the most important functions of the office, and in the interests of the Government in all matters coming within your observation, has very much lessened the anxieties incident to my position and confirms the important statement of my predecessor (Judge Ferris) in commendation of your valuable qualifications for public office.

Most truly yours, WM. A. DAY.

Mr. Goodald married August 24, 1865, Ophelia P. Brewer, daughter of Otis Brewer, long editor and proprietor of the old Boston Cultivator, whose motto "Cultivate the Soil and the Mine"-still stands out boldly in the memory of many a then aspiring youth, hoping for literary distinction, some of the productions of whose pens occasionally found place within its columns. They lived together most happily forty-four years, until her decease, three years ago. They had five children, three of whom

died young. Two, a son and daughter-Otis B. and Julia R. Goodall -are still living lives of usefulness and success.

Soon after entering upon his departmental work in the government service at Washington, Mr. Goodall established his home on P St., N. W., and, for the last forty years and more, he has been as unfailing and persistent in his efforts to make home life beautiful and attractive as he has to render efficient service to the government in the position which he has so faithfully filled. He is an ardent lover of Nature, and woos her persistently, at all seasons and in all her phases. The cultivation of flowers has been a pleasure and delight for him during all these years, till he has transformed the ground in front of his residence, and his back yard as well, into perfect "bowers of beauty," so that they have become not only a source of delight to the neighborhood, but have become the subject of general admiration and comment.

His achievements in this direction were made the subject of an illustrated article occupying more than half a page in a recent issue of the Washington Sunday Star, from which a few paragraphs, showing not only his love of Nature and passion for home. adornment, but his desire to make more bright and cheerful the lives of others, by sharing with them the attractions with which his own home life is surrounded, and stimulating in them, not only a purpose to achieve like results, so far as opportunity makes practicable, but also to cultivate the kindly and fraternal spirit which lightens all life's burdens, and transforms the barren plains of daily duty into joyful fields of verdure and beauty, may properly be quoted, as follows:

Leaving untouched no spot of earth where a flower or shrub would be an adornment, Mr. Goodall has developed the premises surrounding his residence into a garden of nature's rarest creations, employing simple and