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GOODRICH. 35 pcndence (1829) ; Family Tourist (1848) ; Geog- raphy of the Chief Places Mentioned in the Bible (1855) ; and History of the United Utates (1807). GOODKICH, CiiAUNCEY Allen (1790-18G0). An American scliolar, bom at New Haven, Conn., and son of Elizur CJoodrieh. He graduated at Yale in 1810, was a tutor there from 1812 till 1811, and then studied theology. He was or- dained pastor of the First Congregational Church in Middletown, Conn., in 1816; but a year after- wards resigned his charge to become professor of rhetoric in Vale. This chair he held luitil 1839, when he was transferred to that of pastoral theolog}' in the Divinity School. He published a Greeic Grammar (1814) ; Greek and Latin Les- sons (1832): Kclcet liritish Eloquence (1852); and superintended the abridgment of Webster's Dictionary (1847). At the time of his death he was engaged in a revision of this work, which afterwards was published under the supervision of Noah Porter (1804). From 1829 till 1838, Dr. Goodrich edited the Quarterly Spectator. GOODRICH, Elizur (1734-97). An Ameri- can clergv'man. He was bom in Wethersfield (now Rocky Hill), Conn., graduated at Yale in 1752, and from 1750 to 1797 was pastor of a Congregational church at Durham. Conn. He devoted much of his time to the study of the mathematical and astronomical sciences, and wrote an excellent account of the aurora borealis of 1780. GOODRICH, Frank Boott (1826-94). An American author, son of Samuel Griswold Good- rich. He was born in Boston, graduated at Han'ard in 1845, and was for some time the Paris correspondent of the New Y'ork Times, writing under the signature of 'Dick Tinto.' His articles were published in book form in 1854, under the title Tri-Colored Sketches of Paris. Goodrich also published: The Court of Xapoleon (1857) ; History of Maritime Adventure, Ex- ploration, and Discovery (1858): ^yome)l of Beauty and Heroistn (1859): 'World-Famous Women, from Semiramis to EugfrAe (1890) ; and Remarkable Voyages: or, Man Vpon the Sea (1873). GOODRICH, Samuel Griswold (1793-1860). An American author, who wrote under the pseu- donym 'Peter Parley.' and ]ierhaps most widely known for his school histories. He was born in Ridgefield, Conn.. August 19. 1793. and was the nephew of Chauncey Allen Goodrich. He' was a book publisher in Hartford, and later in Boston, Mass.". where he edited the Token (1828-32). an original annual noted for the encouragement given to young American authors. His numerous juve- nile and educational works gave him a wide repu- tation. Altogether in his life he edited or wrote 170 volumes under his pseudonym, of which, how- ever, he was sole author of onlv the followinar; The Outcast, and Other Poems ( 1836) ; Sow Well and Reap Well: or. Tfousrhold Education (1838) ; Five Letters to My 'N'eighbor Smith (1839); Sketches from a Student's Windou: (1841) : Ire- land and the Irish (1842) ; Poems (completed, 1851) ; and Recollections of a Lifelime: or. Men and Things I Have Seen (1856). He was United States Consul at Paris in 1852, where he pub- lished a statistical work on the I'nited States. He died at Hartford, Conn.. May 9, 1860. GOODRICH, or GOODRICKE, Thomas (c.1485-1554) . An English ecclesiastic and dip- GOOD TEMPLARS. lomat. He studied at Cambridge, probably at Corpus Chnsti, and in 1510 was made a fellow of Jesus College. As rector of Saint Peter Cheap (1529), he was consulted on the legality of the marriage of Catharine of Aragon, and was ap- pointed syndic of Cambridge for the settlement of that question (1530). Soon after he became chaplain to the King, and in 1533 went to France on an embassy. In the following year he became Bishop of Ely, and proved a zealous partisan of the Reformation, urging the spiritual headship of the King and conii)iling the Bishops' Book. Under Edward 'I. he became a member of the Privy Council, and was one of the compilers of the Book of Common Prater. In 1552 he became Lord High Chancellor, and sealed Edward's set- tlement of confession, biit was ignorant of its contents. ^He was pardoned by Queen JIary, and kept his bishopric until his death (1554). GOODS AND CHATTELS. A legal as well as popular phrase, in common use. to signify personal property. It is not unfreijuently used in wills, but seldom in any other legal instru- ment; and when used in wills, it generally in- cludes all the personal property of the testator. The two words are not identical in meaning, however, the term chattels being the more ex- tensive in signification and including the other. The term goods corresponds closely in meaning to the bona of the common law, and to movables of the civil law. whereas chattels includes as- well certain rights in land. See Bona; Chat- tels. GOOD'SELL, Daniel Atres (1840—). A Methodist Episcopal bishop, born in Newburg, N. Y. He graduated at the University of the City of Xew Y'ork in 1859, and soon after entered the Methodist ministry. He was elected bishop in 1888. Besides contributions to the religious press, he wrote Life and Character in Granite Bay (1902). a book which, in its general charac- ter, suggests the genius of Burroughs. GOOD'SIR, Joiix (1814-67). A Scotch anat- omist, born at Anstruther, Scotland. He studied at Saint Andrews University; graduated in medi- cine at the College of Surgeons, Edinburgh ; practiced in Anstruther; was made conser-ator of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh (1840) ; acted as lecturer on patholo- gy of tumors from 1842 to 1843 : was assistant professor of anatomy. University of Edinburgh, from 1844 to 1846 ; and succeeded Munro as full professor of anatomv in 1846. Consult Memoir, by Turner (Edinburgh, 1868). GOOD'STOCK. The alias which Lord Fram- pul assumes, as host of the Xew Inn, in Ben .Jon- son's play of the latter name. GOOD TEMPLARS, Independent Order of. A secret benevolent society, having for its object the promotion of temperance, organized at Fay- etteville, X. Y.. in 1851. The Order grew rapidly, the first Grand Lodge having been est.iblished in 1852, and the Right Worthy Grand Lodge of Xorth America in 1858. The Order was intro- duced in England in 1868. and in a short time spread throughout the civilized world. The ques- tion of admission of colored persons caused a schism in the organization in 1874. a section of the Order then organizing under the name of the Eight Worthy Grand Lodge of the World. The two branches, however, reunited in 1887. The International Supreme Lodge projected a system