Hiram Plummer Goodrich was born on 6 December 1800.
2 He was the son of
Benjamin Douglass Goodrich and
Betsey Plummer.
1 He married
Rosa Johnson on 1 May 1828.
3 He died in 1861.
2 Transcribed from Case: "his parents died when he was young, and being without means to obtain an education, his uncle, Charles Goodrich of Pittsfield, Mass., sent him to college, where he graduated with high honors. He then studied for the ministry, and went to Lynchburgh, Va., where he was pastor of a church and professor in a college for several years; he then went West to take a professorship in a new college at Palmyra, Mo., but finding the finances of the college inadequate, he went to St. Louis, and established a church at Carondelet, which became very prosperous. He was a man of great general knowledge and remarkable memory. He became greatly interested in the genealogy of the Goodrich family, and probably did more than any one else in collecting information about Goodriches, both in this country and in England. His collection, in 1861, was in possession of H. B. Goodrich of Chicago, who placed it in the hands of Edwin Hubbard, who was then engaged in tracing out some of the Goodrich families. Soon after this, H. B. Goodrich was murdered while on his way to St. Louis, and as Rev. H. P. Goodrich died about the same time, and his son was said to be in the Confederate army, there seemed to be no one to whom the manuscript could properly be returned. They were carefully boxed and placed in care of the Chicago Historical Society, and were burned in the great fire of 1871. Fortunately, Mr. Hubbard had made full abstract of the manuscript, and thus a portion of the work was saved."
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