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Public spirit was one of Mr. Beach's dominant characteristics and his contribu- tions to charity were large but bestowed with an entire absence of ostentation. He took a special interest in young men start- ing in business and many of them could testify to his friendly counsel and assist- ance. The land for St. Paul's Church was donated by Mr. Beach, and he built and maintained the Widows' Home, consist- ing of a number of small apartments let gratuitously to deserving widows who
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were without homes, and after his death his sons contributed to this worthy char- ity. From early life Mr. Beach was an active and faithful member of Christ Church.
Mr. Beach was thrice married, his first wife, whom he wedded on April 15, 1808, being Harriet, born June 27, 1792, daugh- ter of Aaron and Sarah (Chittenden) Bradley. Aaron Bradley was one of the eight men who organized Christ Church of Hartford. His ancestry has been traced to William Bradley, one of the early set- tlers of the New Haven Colony. Mrs. Bradley was a lineal descendant of Lieu- tenant William Chittenden, who settled in the New Haven Colony in 1639 and was a magistrate and also a member of the General Assembly for twenty-seven sessions, from 1641 to 1661. Mrs. Beach passed away July 16, 1826, and the death of Mr. Beach occurred May 3, 1860, at his home on Farmington avenue, Hart- ford.
(VII) Joseph Watson Beach, son of George and Harriet (Bradley) Beach, was born December 28, 1823, in Hartford, in the old house now standing in the rear of the Young Women's Christian Association building on Church street. His early education was acquired at Miss Canfield's school in Hartford and at a school at Torrington presided over by Dr. Epaphroditus Hudson. He completed his course of study in the school of Dr. Ste- phen Reed at Richmond, Massachusetts. The first employment of Mr. Beach was in the office of the Hartford Carpet Com- pany, of Thompsonville, Connecticut, and his connection with the firm remained un- broken until 1849, when he and his brothers, George and Charles Mason, be- came members of the firm of Beach & Company, one of the oldest houses deal- ing in dyestuffs in New England. Joseph Watson Beach quickly mastered the de-
tails of the business, winning a reputation in the commercial world as one of Hart- ford's ablest business men. He remained identified with Beach & Company until his death.
A man of great energy and enterprise, Mr. Beach, as his means increased with the lapse of years, became associated in an official capacity with a number of im- portant financial and industrial institu- tions. He was president of the Weed Sewing Machine Company and the Mer- cantile Bank, vice-president of the Auto- matic Screw Company and a director in a number of other manufacturing and com- mercial enterprises. He was an able ex- ecutive, but never in the slightest degree visionary, his efforts being always di- rected toward the furtherance of all that made for true and well considered prog- ress.
Mr. Beach married, October 13, 1852, Josephine Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Fitch and Catherine Frances (Eldredge) Coffing, of Westfield, Massachusetts, and their children were: Katharine, married George Herbert Day; Charles Coffing, mentioned below; George Watson, of Saybrook, Connecticut, married Elizabeth Jarvis ; Mary Helen, married Dr. Phineas H. Ingalls, whose biography appears else- where in this work; and Richard Jarvis, of Niantic, Connecticut.
After an illness of three days only Mr. Beach passed away on March 16, 1887. He was a man who had the courage of his convictions and strength of will suf- ficient to overcome every obstacle to the accomplishment of a purpose. His impos- ing presence, genial disposition, generous hospitality, kindness to strangers and en- thusiasm for all that promised to enhance the interests of his native city or its in- stitutions made him one of Hartford's best known citizens, beloved by all who knew him.
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(VIII) Dr. Charles Coffing Beach, son of Joseph Watson and Josephine Eliza- beth (Coffing) Beach, was born May 19, 1856, in Hartford, Connecticut, and re- ceived his earliest education at Miss Can- field's school, then attending the Spring Side School of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, of which William Carey Richards was principal, and afterward completing his preparation for college at the Hartford High School. He then took a course at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Uni- versity, graduating in 1877 with the de- gree of Bachelor of Philosophy. Immedi- ately thereafter Mr. Beach went to the Canary Islands as agent for the cochineal trade of Beach & Company. He remained with the firm about a year, and then, hav- ing decided to adopt for his lifework the profession of medicine, he entered the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, of New York, graduating in the spring of 1882 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. After serving two years as interne in St. Luke's Hospital, New York, Dr. Beach devoted one year to post-graduate work in Berlin and Vienna. In 1885 he re- turned to Hartford and entered upon the general practice of his profession. He was attending physician of the Hartford Hospital, but after some years resigned the position. He is now consulting phy- sician of St. Francis' Hospital and con- sulting medical director of the Travellers' Insurance Company. The professional organizations in which Dr. Beach is en- rolled include the City, County and State Medical societies and the American Medi- cal Association. He is president of the Hartford County Medical Society and a member of the Delta Psi fraternity of Yale, also belonging to the Society of St. Luke's Alumni. The American Associ- ation for the Advancement of Science numbers Dr. Beach among its members. He belongs to the Country Club, the Uni-
versity Club of Hartford, the Church Club of Connecticut, the University Club of New York and the Yale Club of New York. He and his wife are members of Christ Protestant Episcopal Church in which Dr. Beach holds the office of ves- tryman.
Dr. Beach married Mary Elizabeth, born June 13, 1856, daughter of James G. Batterson, founder of the Travellers' In- surance Company. A biography of Mr. Batterson appears elsewhere in this work. Dr. and Mrs. Beach are the parents of four children : Goodwin Batterson, Joseph Watson, Charles Bradford, and Elizabeth Goodwin. The thirty years of Dr. Beach's professional life have passed with honor into the medical history of his city and State.
(The Steele Line).
John Steele, the immigrant. John (2) Steele, son of John (1) Steele married Mercy Warner. Samuel Steele, son of John (2) and Mercy (Warner) Steele, married Mary Bradford (see Bradford line). Daniel Steele, son of Samuel and Mary (Bradford) Steele, married Mary Hopkins (see Hopkins line). Timothy Steele, son of Daniel and Mary (Hopkins) Steele, married Sarah Seymour. Lucy Steele, daughter of Timothy and Sarah (Seymour) Steele, became the wife of Ebenezer Beach, as stated above.
(The Bradford Line).
William Bradford, a passenger on the "Mayflower" and second Governor of the Plymouth Colony, married Widow Alice Southworth, who came thither two or three years later. Major William Brad- ford, son of Governor William and Alice (Southworth) Bradford, married Alice Richards. Mary Bradford, daughter of Major William and Alice (Richards) Bradford, became the wife of Samuel Steele (see Steele line).
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(I'ne Hopkins Line).
John Hopkins and Jane, his wife, were of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Stephen Hopkins, son of John and Jane Hopkins, married Dorcas Bronson. Ebenezer Hop- kins, son of Stephen and Dorcas (Bron- son) Hopkins, married Mary Butler. Mary Hopkins, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary (Butler) Hopkins, was born Janu- ary 30, 1705, and became the wife of Daniel Steele (see Steele line).
RICE, Charles Delos, Inventor, Public Official.
Charles Delos Rice, factory manager of the Underwood Typewriter Company, needs no introduction to contemporary readers of this work. In the typewriting industry Hartford leads the world in pro- duction. The city gives more persons em- ployment in this line and turns out more writing machines than any other city. The largest typewriter factory in the world is the Underwood. The plants of the Underwood and the Royal utilize approximately 1,100,000 square feet of floor space and furnish employment to nearly five thousand people. In the Un- derwood plant a complete machine is turned out every minute. The career of the man who directs, with the obvious success which is Mr. Rice's, the greatest industry of its kind in the world, furnishes a narrative of unusual interest, both to those who have watched its progress step by step and to those who see it now at the height of its achievement. It is a practical illustration of the vast field which lies open to one who sets before himself high ideals, and upholds those ideals with indefatigable energy and am- bition, and that tenacity of purpose which pursues without deviation the course de- liberately and thoughtfully mapped out.
An epitome of the basic principles on
which Mr. Rice founded and built his en- tire business life is found in his advice to young men. This is not the hastily drawn conclusion of the casual observer, but the earnestly and thoughtfully worked out opinion of a man who has traveled every step of the way from work of a factory boy to that of a factory manager. Mr. Rice is in a position to speak with authority :
A young man entering factory life with am- bitions to rise, should, in order to excite interest on the part of those who may have to do with his future advancement, maintain good habits and abstain from profanity or the doing of things which are distasteful in the sight of right think- ing men and he should also show an eagerness to do and to learn. This coupled with the practice of observing closely the methods of others who are expert in whatsoever kind of work it is, will afford plenty of substance for reflection and mental training, and will quite naturally serve to engage him in practices both mentally and other- wise which will attract the notice of those above him, and which will surely result in his advance- ment from time to time (provided, of course, he possesses fair natural ability and tact to start with). After maturity and when, through proper training and accomplishments, a substantial repu- tation is established, such service as might be rendered by such a person is always in demand.
Beyond a doubt the excellent environ- ment in which Mr. Rice was reared was the prime factor in the formation of his high ideals.
His father, Benjamin Rice, was a man of exceptional intelligence and ability. He attended Yale University, but was unable to finish his course. His occupations dur- ing his life were widely diversified, run- ning the gamut from cabinet maker to school teacher. He lived in Auburn, New York, and in that section of the State for the greater part of his life. His latter years were spent with his children in Michigan. His eldest son, Horatio, by his first marriage, served in the Civil War, enlisting from Auburn. Mr. Rice's wife,
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who before her marriage was Harriet Mal- vina Bridges, was a woman of splendid mentality, high ethical principles, and ambitious for the welfare of her son.
Charles Delos Rice was born in Au- burn, New York, April 15, 1859. He at- tended the public schools until he was twelve years of age, at which time cir- cumstances made it necessary for him to take his place in the world's army of wage-earners. He had already been taught habits of industry at home, and from the early age of eight years had been accustomed to perform regularly small tasks such as were within his abil- ity. He was of a mechanical turn of mind and was permitted to follow his natural bent in securing employment in a factory where he was given such routine work as an unskilled boy can perform. His natu- ral aptitude and interest, coupled with careful attention to the details of his work and untiring energy, won advancement for him. In order to broaden the scope of his practical experience and to become ac- quainted with every phase of his work, Mr. Rice sought employment in various shops as the years went on. His technical education in the underlying scientific prin- ciples of his vocation was in his leisure time.
In 1887 Mr. Rice came to Bridgeport as a foreman in the factory of the Yost Writing Machine Company. In 1890 he became chief engineer of the Pope Manu- facturing Company. Ten years later he became general superintendent of the Underwood Typewriter Company, then located at Bayonne, New Jersey. As a result of Mr. Rice's suggestions and efforts, the plant was moved to Hartford, Con- necticut, in the summer of 1901. The company now employs three thousand seven hundred men in the factory, and is one of the most important industries in the State. It is safe to say that few other
men in the country so well understand the problems to be solved in typewriter con- struction. Mr. Rice has taken out many patents, not only covering typewriter and bicycle parts, but machinery to make the same, including forging machinery, gear cutting machines, drilling machines, etc. He invented a new principle for belt gear- ing, permitting four speeds with only two steps on each of two pulleys. On small parts this is the most rapid and accurate producer yet developed. The patent office had to make a special classification to cover this. Twenty-five years ago he brought out an invention under the head of "variable speed gear for bicycles under automatic action to meet the varying con- ditions of the road." This device changed automatically and gradually from high to low gear and vice versa. Mr. Rice be- lieved that this invention would never be- come a commercial success and hence the device was not placed on the market.
Mr. Rice has always taken an active interest in public affairs, and though a busy man and in no sense of the word a politician, he has not shirked his duty as a citizen when called upon to serve the city in an official capacity. In 1906 he served as a member of the Common Coun- cil of Hartford, and later as a member of the Board of School Visitors. As a man whose knowledge and training are the re- sult of his own efforts to gain them, he knows the value and importance of sound education and has always taken a keen interest in school affairs.
Mr. Rice is a member of the Republican Club of Hartford, the Hartford Club, Hartford Automobile Club, the Hartford Golf Club, and the Hartford Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. His connection with organizations of various sorts ex- tends throughout many states. He is a member of the Society of Cayugas of New York and of the Franklin Institute
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of Philadelphia. Mr. Rice is prominent in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and also in the Society of Me- chanical Engineers of New York. He served as first vice-president of the Hart- ford Business Men's Association before it was merged into the Chamber of Com- merce, of which he is now a member. He has also served as president of the Manu- facturers' Association of Hartford County.
On December 25, 1882, Mr. Rice mar- ried Anna C. Hoagland, daughter of Joshua Hoagland, of Auburn, New York. They have one daughter, Harriet Edna. The family are members of Emmanuel Congregational Church, of Hartford.
The delineation of the events which go to make up a useful and important career is more than just a tribute to the man himself. It is the setting before the eyes of those who are to carry on the world's work of the future, the details and pre- cepts by which they may successfully order their own lives. Faithful imitation is the first step toward successful accom- plishment. Out of it and beyond it grows originality of purpose and design. To the youth of the day no greater incentive can be given than the biographies of men of mark.
GOODENOUGH, Edward Winchester, Specialist in Pediatrics.
No one is supposed to be responsible for choice of ancestors. However, a study of the forbears here presented shows ex- cellent selection made some way. Gener- ations spent in New England's school of mental and moral training developed re- spect for religion, independence and love of children. These form an excellent ground work for skill in the science of medicine, especially in Pediatrics, the branch which is devoted to the care and treatment of children. This is the chosen
profession of Dr. Edward Winchester Goodenough, who was born in New Haven, Connecticut, June 12, 1865.
The Goodenough, or as it was variously spelled in the old days, Goodenow, Goode- noe, Goodenowe, family was founded in this country in the earliest Colonial period of New England by one, Thomas Goode- now, a native of Shaftsbury, Dorsetshire, England, where he was born about the year 1608. He set sail for the Colonies from Southampton, April 24, 1639, on the good ship, "Confidence," with his wife Jane, a son Thomas, and two brothers, Edward and John. In due course he landed in the "New World" and made his home at first in the little community of Sudbury, Massachusetts. Later, however, he removed to Marlboro, Massachusetts, and there spent the remainder of his days. He had a large family of children, and it was from the sixth of these that this par- ticular branch of the Goodenough family is descended.
Samuel Goodenow or Goodenough, son of Thomas and Jane Goodenow, was born at Sudbury, Massachusetts, February 28, 1646. He married, about 1670, Mary -, and among their children was Sam- uel, of whom further. The family resided in Northboro, Massachusetts, and were prominent in community affairs.
Samuel (2) Goodenough, son of Samuel (I) and Mary Goodenow or Goodenough, was born in November, 1675. He was a man highly respected by all who knew him. He married, about 1703, Sarah -, who bore him four children, the eldest of whom was David, of whom fur- ther.
David Goodenough, son of Samuel (2) and Sarah Goodenough, was born Febru- ary 26, 1704, and died in West Boylston, Massachusetts, August 16, 1778. He mar- ried, November 8, 1722, Dinah Fay, daughter of John Fay, and sister of the
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mother di Roger Sherman. They moved to Lancaster, Massachusetts, and later to West Boylston, same State, where they spent the remainder of their days. They were the parents of eleven children, the youngest of whom was Benjamin, of whom further.
Benjamin Goodenough, son of David and Dinah (Fay) Goodenough, was born in 1746. He removed in young manhood to Mount Monadnock, New Hampshire, and there married a Miss McBride, of Dublin, New Hampshire, who was a sister of Molly McBride, a local celebrity, a de- scendant of a Scotch ancestry. They took up their residence within the limits of the town of Marlboro, New Hampshire, and they are referred to as residents of that place in the "History of Marlboro" by the local historian, Bemis. He is re- ferred to as Captain Goodenough in that work and there is every reason to believe that he is the same as the Captain Ben- jamin Goodenough who fought with Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga and other places. To Captain Goodenough and his wife were born a large family of children, eight of whom are recorded, and the line of descent is through William, of whom further.
William Goodenough, son of Benjamin and - (McBride) Goodenough, was born June 26, 1774. He married, April 19, 1798, Rachel Piper, who seems to have been a resident of Boston, Massachusetts, and shortly after their marriage they re- moved to what was then spoken of as the West, i. e., to Schoharie county, New York, where they settled in the small town of Jefferson. The births of their nine children are recorded there, the eighth of whom was Giles Chipman, of whom further.
Giles Chipman Goodenough, son of William and Rachel (Piper) Goodenough, was born at Jefferson, Schoharie county,
New York, March 15, 1816. He married, December II, 1834, Alida Cooper, the eldest of the nine children of Dr. Tunis Cooper, a successful country doctor, of Jefferson, New York. She was grand- daughter, on the paternal side, of Oba- diah Cooper, and on the maternal side, of Abram Ostrander, and a lineal descend- ant of Pieter Ostrander, a pioneer of Kingston, New York, a resident there in 1660, who was scalped by the Indians; also a descendant of Hygbert Van der Berg, whose sister was one of the "Goede Vrouwe Manahata," who were the first patronesses of the Great Patriarch's Ball of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Goodenough were the parents of a large family, ten of whom survived infancy. The third child, but the eldest who grew to manhood, was Arthur, of whom further.
The Rev. Arthur Goodenough, son of Giles Chipman and Alida (Cooper) Good- enough, was born in Jefferson, Schoharie county, New York, May 13, 1838. He was graduated in 1860 from the Delaware Lit- erary Institute at Franklin. New York, and two years later from Yale University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He had early decided upon the church as his career in life, and from the academic course at Yale University turned to the Divinity School, which he entered the same year, and was graduated therefrom in 1865 with the honorary degree of Mas- ter of Arts. He has served in this high calling in a number of the Congregational churches in various parts of Connecticut, and is now (1917) the oldest settled pastor of any Congregational church in that State. His pastorates were at Ellsworth, Roxbury and Winchester, the latter par- ish becoming his charge in 1870 and he is still actively engaged there. The Rev. Arthur Goodenough married, at New Haven, Connecticut, July II, 1864, Han- nah Brett, a native of Boston, Massachu-
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setts, born February 18, 1833, daughter of Cyrus and Mary Ann (Winchester) Brett, of Boston. Their children are as follows: Edward Winchester, of whom further; Mary Alida, a graduate of Mount Holyoke, 1886, who became the wife of Myron Sherwood, of Torrington, Connecticut ; Francilla Jane, a graduate of Wheaton Seminary, a kindergarten teacher in the public schools at Hartford, Connecticut ; Helen Evelyn, a graduate of Mount Holyoke, 1891, a teacher at Ledyard, Connecticut ; Giles Frederic, a graduate of Yale, 1893, B. A., a clergy- man, in charge of the Congregational church at Ledyard; Silas H., ex-Yale, 1895, deceased; and Gertrude Lilian, a graduate of Mount Holyoke and Simmons College, who resides at home.
On the maternal side Dr. Goodenough is descended also from distinguished men. John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden, of historic and traditional fame, were ances- tors, as were also William Brett, who founded the family in this country and was among the first settlers of North Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and Ephra- im, Ezra and Matthew Allen, three brothers, who distinguished themselves in the Revolution. The Rev. Jonathan Winchester, of Ashburnham, Massachu- setts, was the grandfather, and Samuel Winchester, probably a soldier in the Revolutionary army, was the father of Mary Ann (Winchester) Goodenough, the grandmother of Dr. Goodenough.
The childhood and youth of Dr. Good- enough were spent in Litchfield county, Connecticut, in the towns of Ellsworth, Roxbury and Winchester, where he at- tended the public schools, completing his preparatory education at the private school of the Rev. J. Wycliff Beach at Windsor Locks. He then entered Yale University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1887, receiving the de-
gree of Bachelor of Arts with special hon- ors in the sciences. During the years 1889-90 in Waterbury, Connecticut, he studied medicine in the offices of Drs. North and Axtelle. The following year he was assistant principal of the Water- bury High School. Toward the close of the year 1891 he returned to Yale Uni- versity and entered the medical school, graduating therefrom in 1893 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine cum laude. He received the appointment of assistant surgeon for the Illinois State Home for Soldier and Sailors at Quincy, and there resided for a year. Upon his return to the East he once more took up his resi- dence in Waterbury, Connecticut, and there established himself in the active practice of his profession. His practice for twenty years was of a general char- acter. His special work is now Pediatrics and he is regarded as an authority upon all questions regarding the medical care and hygiene of children. He has done special work at the Post-Graduate and the Polyclinic in New York City, also at the Harvard Summer School, and for seven years served as clinical assistant in Pediatrics at Yale University Dispensary. He has recently been appointed consult- ing physician in Pediatrics to the Litch- field County Hospital, of Winsted, Con- llecticut.
Devoted as is Dr. Goodenough to his profession in its every respect, he has en- joyed his opportunity on educational lines. In 1900 he was appointed commis- sioner of education in Waterbury, and was very active during his term of serv- ice, studying the conditions and possible reforms in this department of public work. In 1910 he was elected sole medical in- spector of the schools of Waterbury, serv- ing in that capacity in that year and in 191I, caring for more than 15,000 chil- dren. In 1912 his services were recog-
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