Biography of Dewitt C. Goodrich Excerpted from "Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1911-1912", Edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary. Vol XII., State Printing Office, Topeka, Kansas 1912. submitted by Teresa Lindquist (merope@radix.net); (copyright) 2001 by Teresa Lindquist ----------------------------------------------------------------------- KSGENWEB INTERNET GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY COPYRIGHT NOTICE: In keeping with the KSGenWeb policy of providing free information on the Internet, this data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other gain. Copying of the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEWITT C. GOODRICH was born May 30, 1844, at Peru, Miami county, Indiana, the son of George Whitfield Goodrich, of Christiansburg, Va., and Jane E. McPherson Goodrich, of New Carlisle, Ohio. The first of the family came from England in 1635 and settled in Virginia. The father was born in 1815 and the mother in 1821. They came to Kansas in the spring of 1855, prior to this time having lived at Peru, Ind., and Chicago. Young Goodrich attended the common schools until ten years of age, and, after a period in Kansas when there were no schools, attended two terms at a private school in Granby, Mo., and one year after the close of the war, at a Methodist college. He served in the War of the Rebellion, in the Fourteenth Indiana light battery, enlisting in the same battery three times--first in October, 1861, when he was taken out on account of age--re-enlisting in February, 1862; again re-enlisted as a veteran February 28, 1864, and received his final discharge September 2, 1865. He entered the service of the government at the National Military Home, Leavenworth, October 10, 1885, as chief clerk and cashier in the treasurer's office; from November, 1888, as quartermaster and commissary of subsistence,, and from January 1, 1900, as commissary of subsistence. He was married December 11, 1867, at Lebanon. Ind., to Harriet E. Landon. who died at Paola, Kan., November 10, 1883. He married a second time. He has had three children by each marriage. (Included with the article "The Exodus to Kansas in 1855, page 388)