My Genealogy Hound

FRANK A. GOODWIN, a son of John and Elizabeth M. (Wood) Goodwin, was born on his father’s farm in Macoupin County, Ill., January 16, 1862, and came to make his home in this county in August, 1884. Locating on his father’s farm four miles south of Center View, he engaged in its cultivation uninterruptedly until March 1, 1888, when he moved to Kansas City and for a year was employed by a retail grocery firm. For the next two years he was city salesman for a wholesale oil firm, but during this time his thoughts were frequently dwelling on the Johnson County farm, and he at length concluded to return. The farm on which he now resides is two miles east of Holden, this tract also belonging to his father. He has made many improvements on the place and has been very successful.

In his youth our subject worked on his father’s farm in the summers and attended school in the winter season. He made the best of his advantages and became well informed on general questions of practical and business importance. December 26, 1883, he married Josie, daughter of Jerry Moore, who was a native of New Jersey. Mrs. Goodwin was born in Illinois, and became the mother of three children, Maud, Leslie and Elizabeth, of whom the last-named died in infancy. The parents are members of the Methodist Church of Holden. Fraternally Mr. Goodwin is connected with the Kansas City Lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and was a charter member of the lodge at Center View. In politics he has been a life-long Democrat.