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     Caroline Goodrich was born on 15 January 1801.¹ She was the daughter of Phila Goodrich and Lucretia Williams.¹

     Calvin Goodrich was born on 17 May 1803.¹ He was the son of Phila Goodrich and Lucretia Williams.¹ He married Europia Ann Taylor on 19 June 1825.¹ He died in 1831.¹ He resided at Watervale, New York.¹

     Europia Ann Taylor married Calvin Goodrich, son of Phila Goodrich and Lucretia Williams, on 19 June 1825.¹

     Eveline Goodrich was born on 26 October 1805.¹ She was the daughter of Phila Goodrich and Lucretia Williams.¹

     Eunice Warner married Gideon Goodrich, son of Ebenezer Goodrich and Lydia Deming, on 22 February 1787.¹ She died on 30 December 1820.¹

     Sally Bostwick married first (?) Brockway.¹ She married second Gideon Goodrich, son of Ebenezer Goodrich and Lydia Deming.¹

     (?) Brockway married Sally Bostwick.¹

     Horace Goodrich was born on 12 May 1788.¹ He was the son of Gideon Goodrich and Eunice Warner.¹ He died on 12 February 1816 at age 27.¹

     Barzillai Goodrich was born on 24 September 1789.² He was the son of Gideon Goodrich and Eunice Warner.¹ He married first (?) (?).² He married second (?) Freeman.² He resided at Meadville, Pennsylvania.²

     Note: Case gives no clue as to which wife was the mother of these two children, or even if they had the same mother. As such, I have left that relationship undefined.

     Harriet Goodrich was born on 30 September 1790.¹ She was the daughter of Gideon Goodrich and Eunice Warner.¹ She married Silas Spencer.¹ She died on 10 April 1855 at age 64.¹

     Silas Spencer married Harriet Goodrich, daughter of Gideon Goodrich and Eunice Warner.¹

     Anson Goodrich was born on 15 April 1792.² He was the son of Gideon Goodrich and Eunice Warner.¹ He married Susan Dinsmore in April 1816.² He died on 17 June 1847 at Ripley, New York, at age 55.²

     George Goodrich was born on 13 December 1793.² He was the son of Gideon Goodrich and Eunice Warner.¹ He married Tryphena Parsons on 19 January 1823.² He died on 14 September 1874 at Ripley, New York, at age 80.²

     Austin Goodrich was born on 13 July 1795.² He was the son of Gideon Goodrich and Eunice Warner.¹ He married Sally Brockway on 1 January 1820.² He died on 6 January 1871 at Ripley, New York, at age 75.²

     Aristes Goodrich was born on 15 December 1796.¹ Aristes Goodrich was the child of Gideon Goodrich and Eunice Warner.¹ Aristes Goodrich died on 21 January 1797.¹

     Orestes Goodrich was born on 6 March 1798.¹ He was the son of Gideon Goodrich and Eunice Warner.¹ He died on 12 November 1823 at age 25.¹

     John Goodrich was born on 25 November 1801.¹ He was the son of Gideon Goodrich and Eunice Warner.¹ He died on 10 September 1824 at age 22.¹

     Frederic Goodrich was born on 16 April 1803.² He was the son of Gideon Goodrich and Eunice Warner.¹ He married Mary Ann Potter on 14 April 1835.² He died on 20 January 1854 at Johnstown, Rock County, Wisconsin, at age 50.²

     Gerry Goodrich was born on 7 April 1805.¹ He was the son of Gideon Goodrich and Eunice Warner.¹ He died on 25 March 1806.¹

     Grant Goodrich was born on 7 August 1811 at Milton, New York.² He was the son of Gideon Goodrich and Eunice Warner.¹ He married Juliet Atwater of Westfield, New York, daughter of Amos Atwater and Mary Woodside, on 24 July 1836.³

     Transcribed from Case: "removed with his parents to Ripley, Chautauqua County, N.Y., in 1816, then a comparative wilderness. His first education was from teachers in his father's house, employed for part of the year. At a later period he began the study of the classics and higher English branches with J. C. Center. After nearly two years, active symptons of consumption-the family scourge-appeared, and he sought relief on one of his brother's vessels, engaged in the carrying-trade on the lakes, which proved so beneficial, that the next year he entered the Westfield Academy, where he completed his preparatory studies, and then commenced the study of the law with Dixon & Smith, with whom he remained until the spring of 1834, when he started for Chicago, arriving May 14; and shortly after, formed a law partnership with Alex. N. Fullerton, which continued for something over one year. He engaged in real-estate speculation and acquired what was then deemed a handsome fortune; but the great financial crash of 1837 found him with large liabilities-some of his own, but largely as security for others; he asked and received no compromise, sought the shelter of no bankrupt law, but devoted nearly seventeen years of labor to their extinguishment, and paid them all principal and interest.
     In the fall of 1835, he formed a law partnership with Giles Spring, which continued until 1849, when Spring was elected judge of Cook County Court of Common Pleas. The firm of Spring & Goodrich attained a wide professional reputation and an extensive practice. In 1854, he entered into partnership with W. W. Farwell, and, in 1856, Sidney Smith was admitted into the firm, constituting the firm of Goodrich, Farwell & Smith, which transacted a large business in the State and United-States courts, occupying the position of one of the leading law firms of Chicago. The unremitting labor of so many years began to tell upon his health, and by advice of his physician, in 1858, he went to Europe. After his return, in 1859, he was elected one of the judges of the Superior Court of Chicago, which position he held between four and five years, when he returned to the bar, resuming his place in the old firm of Goodrich, Farwell & Smith; which continued until 1869, when it was dissolved, and he retired from general practice, engaging only in special cases. In common with hundreds of others, he saw the accumulation of years of toil swept away in the great Chicago fire of October 9, 1871. To retrieve something of his losses, he again entered into active practice; but after five years of intense and successful professional labor, his nervous system gave way, and his prostration became so complete that he was forced to abandon all professional labor.
     As a citizen, Mr. Goodrich has been active in promoting the material, moral, and religious interests of Chicago. He served as alderman the second year of its existence as a city; was one of the first members of the school board, and helped to lay the foundations of its splendid school system; he aided in organizing the first temperance society and the first bible society in Chicago, and is now a life-member and vice-president of the American Bible-Society. He has been a trustee and the secretary of Rush Medical College from its foundation. To provide facilities for higher education in the Northwest, he, in association with Hon. John Evans, Orrington Lunt, and others, procured the charter of and established the Northwestern University at Evanston, and by personal contributions, the pledge of their individual credit, their unremitted labors, watchful care, and judicious management of its financial interests, secured its endowment and the honorable reputation it bears. The university has conferred on Mr. Goodrich the degree of L.L.D. He was perhaps more largely instrumental than any one else in inducing the late Eliza Garrett to protect and endow the Garrett Biblical Institute at Evanston, for the education and theological training of young men for the Christian ministry, which has been in successful operation for thirty years. With others he prevented the sale of the lot owned by the First M.-E. Church of Chicago, now in the business centre of the city, and drew and helped to obtain a special charter for the erection thereon of a building for business as well as church purposes, from which rents have been received, and paid for the founding of other churches, amounting to $300,000. He was one of the projectors of the founding of the Washingtonian Home of Chicago, for the cure of inebriates.
     Belonging to the same political party with Mr. Lincoln, and having been associated with him in important lawsuits, he became one of his earliest and most ardent admirers and advocates of his nomination for president. On the breaking out of the Rebellion, he was an active member of the Union Defence Committee of Chicago, which organized, fed, fitted out, and sent to the field several regiments of men, who rushed to the defence of the Union, before the government was able to organize or care for them; and when the emancipation proclamation set the slaves free, he acted as a member of the Freedman's Aid Society in caring for them; and until the failure of his health, there were few charitable or religious benevolences which did not receive his best thought and active support, and in which he does not still retain a lively interest. He has seen what few living men have seen, or will ever see, a frontier hamlet,containing only eight frame dwellings, grow into a city of nearly 800,000 inhabitants. He has been a member of the Methodist-Episcopal church since 1832."⁴