The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-13
Remarkable Career of n Man Yet Hale
and Hearty at the Great Age
of Eighty-Four.

and useful life he has been known beyond
the boundaries of the commonwealth for
vigorous and forceful opinions on matters
secular as well as religious. In the last
decade DR.. Goodwin has been one of the
leading champions of the sectarian educa-
tional institutions in their protest against
large appropriations by the State for state
schools. He has appeared frequently in
newspaper articles as the leader OF the
Although eighty-four years of age, DR..
Goodwin retains all of his mental vigor
and much of his physical strength. A little
of the weakness of age has touched him,
but he remains an example of the sturdi-
ness and virility of the generation that laid
the foundation of Indiana's greatness.
Student, circuit rider, school teacher, col
lege president, author and scientist. he has
left the impress of his personality upon
the State and city. Mrs. Goodwin, who,
before her marriage to DR.. Goodwin on
Sept. Is, 1912. was Miss Content L. Craft,
of Rising Sun, Is also we'll preserved and
vigorous.
POEM BY A DAUGHTER.
At the reception to be held at the Good
win home to-day poem, written especially
for the occasion, will be read by daugh-
ter, Mrs. Plantz, Of Appleton, Wis. 1t is
as follows:
Three-score years of life together.
Sunny days and cloudy weather,
Yet you seem to think to-day
1t sunshine all the way.
When Love throws its golden CLEAN.
All lifes trials seem a dream.
Half the wealth of life is letting
Go the sorrows worth forgetting,
And the rest Is knowing how
To enjoy the bliss of now.
So for you these sixty years
Have more laughter held than tears.
; Does the first home come before you;
When You two sat down alone
BY the hearth that was your own.
Looking into fond, true eyes
Each beheld paradise.
Yet nearer glimpse Of heaven
Came bs, Th rs5 IT, the h0me en WAS Bog given
That made every day JOY.
Never heard you sound so sweet.
AS the patter OF his feet.
All! the angels saw him smiling.
And with tender tone beguilng,
Won the darling from your sight
To the lovely gardens bright,
Where the blessed children grow,
Who are spared LIES sin and woe.
Others came your care possessing,
Each one welcomed as a blessing,
Never birdlings found nest
Never home was built on earth
That held more Of love and mrth.
But no one can keep from falling
From Gods house the homeward calling.
And four treasures went above
Carried by hand of love,
That the heavenly home might grow
Just as dear as that below.
oh, the years so long united.
True to all the vows once plighted!
How they make golden chain,
How they sing a sweet refrain
OF kind deeds and noble thought,
And the good two lives have wrought.
Three-score years of life together,
Sunny days and cloudy weather,
Love increasing with the years
Making rainbows OF LIES tears
And the union yet to be,
Perfect in eternity.
REVIEW OF HIS LIFE.
The history of DIR. Goodwin's life is al
most an epic Of the development of TIL
State from a rough, uniformed Western
province, through slow but sure stages t
its present social and literary equality witt
the older commemorative of the East.
Mr.. Goodwin was born in Brookville
Ind, Nov. e. 1918. His father. Samuel Good
win, came from Lebanon, o., in 1916, Will
Indiana was yet a Territory and Indian
were abundant on the Whitewater. III
grandfather was rowing hunter from boy
hood. He fioated down the Ohio iron
above Pittsburg about 1870, and was amon'
the first to settle in Fort Washington. nov
Cincinnati He there took up quartz
section of LAND Inc erne Maj
street, made the first payment. built
cabin and went to hunting. In less than
year neighbors grew so numerous that dee
and turkey became scarce, and in DISCUS
he offered his claim for sale. Nichola
Longworth assumed the unpaid balance Of
the quarter-section, gave him Sooo "nd IN
hunter moved to Mad river, near Ther
L. a
were abundant. He secured claim b.
never paid IL out and never afterward
owned any real estate. His son Samue
went at the age of thirteen TO learn tn
tanners trade i'm Lebanon, o. His was tn
first lanyard In the whitewater valley
Among the apprentices who learned Tn
art of tanning was William >. Durbfr
father of Governor Durbin. Here Thoma
worked from the time he was big enoug
to grind bark until his father sold the tan
merry and went to farming, when he becam
a farmer.
At the age of nineteen he started to col
lege. the first student to enroll at the AS
bury University, now De PAW, from out
side Putnam county. He was graduated
the first class In 1910. and was received o
trial at the Indiana Conference the sam
year. His first appointment was TO IN
Rising Sun circuit. which embraced all {
what is Ohio county and about ha
of Switzerland county, under contract
| receive 500 a wear board and washing an
| horse feed He secured board and wash
| ing and horse feed by boarding around an
leaving his soiled linen to be done up b
some of the kind hearted sisters on tn
circuit but his salary amounted TO only $
| a year, much of which was counted eigf
| dimes for dollar. a dime passing currer
at the stores for bit" but II would M
nav for a letter whose postage was IL
/ cents. His next appointment was TO Il
Manchester circuit. which embraced all .
| one appointment in Franklin county, or
in Ripley county and one I'm In the State ,
wear before. but he Received 81 more. r,
| ceiving s65, but making sure OF his boar
| and horse feed by boarding around as /
/ had done before.
At the end of this conference year. Sep
/ Is. 1892 he was married 10 Miss Content
| Craft. a girl who was Methodist-born or
/ Methodist bred but who was led into Il
Presbyterian Church by having sung I'm 4
/ choir That was very common occu
/ renee when choir-singing in the Methods
| churches was not tolerated.
THE CENTERVILLE CIRCUIT.
Their first appointment after their ma
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