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THEODORE
HENRY GOODMAN
There are few men who have filled responsible
positions of private and public trusts with more skill and success than Mr.
Goodman.
At the age of 20 years he accepted a
position in railroad service, and during most of his life has been a General
Ticket and Passenger Agent for extensive lines of railroad, and is now at the
head of the Southern Pacific, Central Pacific and Occidental and Oriental
Steamship Companies. In the war of the Rebellion, he served two years as a
brave and skillful cavalry officer.
Mr. Goodman is a member of George H.
Thomas Post, No. 2, G. A. R., of San Francisco, and Past Vice-Commander of the
Department of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and Past-Grand Commander
of the Department of California, G. A. R.
He was made a Master Mason in Mount Moriah Lodge, No. 44, San Francisco, in 1859, and exalted
to the sublime Royal Arch Degree in California Chapter, No. 5, San Francisco,
in 1866. He has ascended the mystic stairway to the 33d degree passive, A.
&. A. Scottish Rite and Past Venerable Grand Master of the Grand Consistory
of California.
He has a massive brain, fine
sensibility and affable manner. Benevolence, generosity and strict integrity,
are leading traits in his character. He seems to possess an intuitive knowledge
of business relations in railroad affairs, and his keen perception enables him
to detect fraud and imposition, whilst his magnaminity
[sic] is extended to the weak and unfortunate. He has won a high an honorable
place as a big-hearted and discreet public servant, and his career in fraternal
societies has brightened homes and lightened heavy hearts.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Illustrated Fraternal Directory Including
Educational Institutions on the Pacific Coast, Page 330, Publ. Bancroft
Co., San Francisco. Cal. 1889.
© 2012 Cecelia M. Setty.
San Francisco County Biographies