The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-12-28
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Father, Mother and SON stranpss.
United After a Long SepSratior

Father, Mother and Son s~traneel,
United After a Long S~epSration
Condensed from the Cincinnati Comma,
cisl Gazette.
Twenty yeara ago, in a beautiful yallav
Of GreenbrIer county, West Virgins. Il
the foot of the Cumberland Mountains
in that loveliest ofall picturesque resiae 4.
the headwaters Of the Great Kanawha
lived q young farmer named Goodms5
He had q happy home; in which were !
young wife and a baby son, but ne ep.
listed in the Army Of the Cumberland
and left for the front. Reports reached
Mrs. Goodman that her soldier Husband
had died at Andersonville. Close upon
the heels IF the awful news came ira
awakening on a dark night with the roof
Of her home ablaze by the incendiaryl va
torch, applied by a marauding band Of
COnfederates to more than one Union
home in the hithertt peaceful valley
Crushed by the double loss and having
| no relatives a to whom she could an.
ply for refuge Mrs. Goodman made her
wav to Cincinnati, where for ears she
had a hard struggle. Having placed her
child in an orphans asylum sh6
| soan lost trace of the boy.
But Goodman did not oie at Ander.
~sonville. He returned to his home, TO
find il desolate and no traces OF his fam.
ily. At this time the silver excitement
in Nevada was at its highest and, hay.
| ing nothing to retard him, Goodman
went West in the hope of forgetting his
great sorrow in the dizzy whirl of The
| mining camp. He staked a claim and,
| being a man OF energy and not addicted
to the vices so prevalent among the
! miners. he succeeded in a few months
in amassing quite q fortune, which he
| invested in real estate in the then al.
ready nourishing town oil Virginia City.
Success crowned his every undertaking
and it was not long until Goodman was
considered the wealthiest man IN Sll
! that region, where scores or men were
| counted millionaires. In 1876 Good.
| man removed to San Francisco and he-
came senior partner In a great banking
! firm,
One morning in answer to an adVer.
! tisement for book-keepers, q young man
| presented himself in his private Office,
who, by his striking resemblance to
| Goodman, led to Inquiries and invests.
cation. To make a ong story short, the
young man proved to be the long lost
son OF Goodman. He had been adopted
from the orphan asylum at Cincinnati
by q wealthy and childless couple Of
DAYTON, Ohio, raised in luxury and given
a good education, Financial reyeFses
and the death of both his benefactors
threw the Young man on his own re-
sources and he had finally drifted to the
far west, carried thither by the flatter.
ing reports of the new Eldorade. Hen
ry, for such was the young mans name,
was Immediately installed as junior part
ner of the firm.
In October last q gentleman named
Warren. an old neighbour of Goodman in
his Virginia home, aud by the way, one
Of the comrades that went out with him
from the quiet valley to battle IN the
war of the UniJn, was in San Franciscoi
and, having a draft to negotiate, he
Isteeped into Goodman's bank TO tran
sact his business. While the money was
being paid over to HIM by the elder
Goodman, Warren casually
remarked that he Goodman
very much resembled an OLD
friend whom we knew years ago II
West Virginia. Goodman stated he wa!
from Greenbrier county; explanation
followed, the identity Of each q iseios5d
and Warren was invited to the home OF
the younger Goodman, with whom ms
father was residing. That evening after
tea the party were drawn around tn
ireside exchanging "reminiscences OF tn
past. Finally Goodman related the dis
appearance and supposed death q nj
wife, when he was interrupted by Wa
rem who excitedly stated that Mrs
Goodman was still alive and q residen
of Covington, KY. The revelation cam
like a thunderclap on q clear, cloudles
day, and the shock nearly proved to-
much for Goodman. Joy seldom eve
kills, and SO it proved IA this instance
Goodman accompanied by his son an'
family took the first train for the cas-
and IN due time arrived at Cincinnati
no pen can picture the meeting ate
more than twenty years separation, am
the Joy that came to at least two heart
after all these long years of sorrow an
pain. The entire party passed Up On tn
steamer Fleetwood the other evening
and a happier or more Joyous coters
was never seen aboard thai boat