Memoir of George Brown Goode, 1851-1896 / by S.P. Langley.

  • Samuel Langley
Date:
1897
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memoir of George Brown Goode, 1851-1896 / by S.P. Langley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    George Brown Goode was born at New Albany, Indiana, on February 13, 1851, and died at his home in Washington on September 6,1896, after a life of forty-five years, than which few human lives have ever been better filled. In those years he won the warm affection of a wide circle of friends and the trust and confidence of a multitude of subordi- nates in the position to which his own abilities had carried him. He interested himself and interested others in ever-widening circles of research, and such varied work that it seemed to those who knew what he was doing, incomprehensible that one man could accomplish so much in one single life; and when this came to an end its cessation was like the loss of a part of them- selves to those who knew him best, by whom he is remembered with an affection which men rarely gain from one another. He was the son of Francis Collier Goode and Sarah Woodruff Crane. The Goode family trace their ancestry in this country to John Goode, of Whitby, who settled in Virginia prior to 1661.* While still settled in Virginia, many members of the Goode family went to the South and West to do pioneer work in build- ing up villages and towns on what was then the outskirt of civilization. Dr. Goode's father, Francis Collier Goode, was born in Waynes- ville, Ohio, and was a merchant in Ohio and Indiana. In 1857 he retired from business, removing to Amenia, New York; subse- quently to Middletown, Connecticut, and later to Arlington, *The history of this family has been carefully traced by Dr. Goode in Virginia Cousins: A Study of the Ancestry and Posterity of John Goode, of Whitby, a Virginia Colonist of the Seventeenth Century, with notes upon related families, a key to southern genealogy and a history of the English surname Gode, Goad, Goode, or Good from 1148 to 1887, by G. Brown Goode, with a preface by R. A. Brock, Secretary of the Vir- ginia and Southern Historical Societies. Richmond, Virginia, J. W. Randolph & English, MDCCCLXXXVII. [3)
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