Putnam patriot., 1916-09-29
ADMIRAL GOODRICH
 ENGAGED
Will Marry Miss Sarah Minis Hays of
 Philadelphia, October 18th
Announcement Was Made in Quaker
 City Last Friday

Rear Admiral Caspar Frederick Goodrich of Pomfret is to be married october 18th. His engagement to Miss Sarah Minis Hays, daughter of pr, l Minis Hays and wife Of Philadelphia. was announced by the parents of Miss Hays in Philadelphia last Friday.
 The news of the engagement came as decided surprise to the large circle of the Admiral's friends and ac- auaintances The Admiral is we'll known in Putnam. He is sixty-nine years of age His first wife, who was Miss Eleanor Miner of New York, died eight years ago.
 The Admiral has been spending his summers since his retirement in 1909 at Gladwyn. his pretty Pomfret home His two daughters have been with him this summer. Last week Thurs day one of them. Mrs. Gladys Good rich Belknap, was married to John Clarke Brennon, a mining engineer of New York. His other daughter mar ried Captain c. T. Davis of the Brit ish army three years ago. She had been at Gladwyn this summer but re- turns soon to England.
 Rear Admiral Goodrich was born in Philadelphia. January 7th. 1S47 and after moving to Connecticut went to the Naval Academy, where he was graduated in 1864, the first honor man of his Class. In the fall of that year he saw service on the old Macedonian and in the years following he was pro noted in regular order. He spent his time until 1878 at European stations. In 1897 he was placed in command of the Naval War College in Newport. He was then captain and at the out break of the Spanish-American War he was placed in command successive Louis. He did good service in the war and after serving as commanding officer of the battlesbip Iowa and the cruisers Minneapolis and New York, he was made rear admiral in 190j and placed in charge Of the Pacific fleet, in which capacity he did signal ser vice at the time of the San Francisco earthquake. by hurrying his ships to the stricken city and giving asslst- ance.
 The rear admirals sol., Lieutenant Caspar Goodrich, U. S N. was killed in the turret of the battleship Georgia, July Is, 1907, by the aar-back of big gun The mother of the young lieu tenant died ten months after her sons fatal accident
 In 1908 Rear Admiral Goodrich sue ceeded Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans who was retired as senior rear admi- ral. He received the degree Of Mas ter of Arts from Yale University in 1888. He was Commandant of the New York Navy Yard from 1907 up to the time of his retirement.
 He was given more authority in the conduct of the navy yard than had ey- CT been reposed in any other individ- uaI save the secretary of the navy.
 Admiral Goodrich was active and in- fuential in formulating plans for the navy yard organization adopted by Secretary Newberry and is supposed to have written some of the circular letters MT. Newberry signed for the guidance of the navy yard comman- dants.
 Since his retirement the admiral has left the limelight of publicity, living quietly at his home in Pomfret most Of each year. Miss Hays, whom he Will marry, is a member of prominent Philadelphia family. On account or the illness of her mother the wedding. at St. James Church October 18th, will be strictly private.