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EDWIN CHANDLER GOODRICH
Possessed of the qualities that make
for success in life, Edwin Chandler Goodrich has taken a place among the
prosperous horticulturists of San Joaquin County. Mr. Goodrich was born near Volcano, Amador County,
on May 30, 1871, the son of Chandler Baker and Jemima (Hill) Goodrich. The father was a blacksmith by trade, but
after arriving in California he mined at Volcano for awhile, but soon took up
his trade at the mines. There were two
children in the family: Doney H. and Edwin Chandler, the subject of this
sketch. After his mother’s death his
father married Martha Whitehead, and they had two children: Melford P. and
Addie May, who married Jesse McCargar and is now deceased.
Edwin Chandler Goodrich began his
schooling at Volcano, and when he was ten years old his parents removed to Geyserville, Sonoma County, where he completed his
education. When he was eighteen years of
age, he went to San Francisco and took up plumbing and sheet metal work under
George H. Fay, remaining with him for three years; he then went into business
for himself, but continued only one year, when he removed to Nevada and worked
in the mines at Dayton, continuing for only a short time. Upon returning to California he entered into
partnership with his brothers and together they conducted a planning mill at
Healdsburg for seven years. Then the
business was sold and for the next three years Mr. Goodrich turned his
attention to ranching at Kenwood, Sonoma County; then he went to Vacaville and
became foreman of the Frank H. Buck ranch of 2,000 acres. Mr. Goodrich was then sent to the Elliott district of San Joaquin County in the interests of the Buck
Company, and later purchased a twenty-acre ranch from W. Herrick; later buying
ten acres adjoining, making a total of thirty acres, twenty acres of which is
in orchard and alfalfa and the balance devoted to the raising of grain. At the present time, Mr. Goodrich is the
foreman of the Roberts ranch, a fifty-acre vineyard, on which he makes his
home.
The marriage of Mr. Goodrich
occurred in Santa Rosa on July 3, 1898, and united him with Miss Elizabeth
Cummings, born on a ranch about five miles from Geyserville,
a daughter of Eli and Mary (Johns) Cummings, early pioneers of California who
were engaged in sheep raising, having from 1,500 to 2,000 head at one
time. Her mother passed away in 1918 and
her father in 1921, both in Sonoma County.
She received her education in the Geyserville
public schools. They are the parents of
one son, Edwin Russell Goodrich. Mr.
Goodrich is a Republican in politics and fraternally is a member of the W. O.
W. of Santa Rosa.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1524. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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