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PERCY H. GOODWIN

 

 

     GOODWIN, PERCIVAL HENRY, Realty and Insurance Broker, San Diego, Cal., was born in Lake City, Colo., Jan. 29, 1882, the son of Nason M. Goodwin and Roberta Jane (Wade) Goodwin.  He married Laura May Ewart at San Diego, May 15, 1906, and to them there have been born two children, Ewart Wade and Virginia May Goodwin. 

     He was educated in San Diego, later studying higher mathematics and law in Denver.

     He went to Denver in 1900, and was a clerk for the Prudential Life Insurance Co. there.  From 1902 to 1904 he was half owner at the Calloway-Goodwin Co., wholesale and retail grocers at Montrose, Colo.  In San Diego he bought an interest in Gordon-Goodwin & Co., in which his father was an active partner.

     As President of the Mission Hills Co., was in personal charge of opening Mission Hills, a beautiful San Diego residential district.  He was also president of the Hercules Cement Co., and interested in the Acreage Syndicate of San Diego.

     He is Director of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce and Director Padre of the Order of Panama, and is Director of the Panama California Exposition to be held in San Diego in 1915.  He also is a member of the Good Roads Club of San Diego County, Imperial Valley and Yuma Highway Assn., and Am. Auto Assn.

     He is a Republican in politics, life member of the Archaeological Institute of America, thirty-second degree Mason; member of San Diego Consistory, Knights Templar, and El Bahr Temple of the Mystic Shrine.  He also is an Elk, member of Phi Delta Kappa fraternity and an honorary member of the Society of North American Indians.  His clubs are Cuyamaca, San Diego Aero, Rotary, Point Loma Country, San Diego Rowing, Delta Duck, Delta Gun, Juan Dios Trout and the Automobile Club of Southern California.

 

 

Transcribed by Bill Simpkins.

Source: Press Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I,  Page 808, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.  1913.

© 2011 Bill Simpkins.

 

 

 

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