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Goodale. He was graduated from Amherst in 1860 and received his medical degree from Bow- doin and Harvard in 1863. He began practice in Portland, Maine, and at the same time served as instructor in anatomy, jnateria medica and sur- gery in the Portland school for medical instruc- tion. In 1868 he be- came professor of natural history in Bowdoin college and in 1873 became in- structor in botany and lecturer at Har- vard. In 1873 he was appointed assistant professor of vegetable physiology at Har- vard, and in the same year resigned his chair at Bowdoin. He was professor of botany in Harvard, 1878-88, and in the latter year succeeded Asa Gray as Fisher pro- fessor of natural history. He was director of the botanic garden at Harvard from 1879, and a member of the faculty of the museum of compar- ative zoology at Harvard from 1881. He was associate editor of the American Journal of Science from 1888. He delivered several courses of lect- ures before the Lowell institute. Among the societies of which Dr. Goodale was elected a member are : the American society of physiolo- gists; the American society of anatomists; the society of American naturalists, of which he was president; the New York academy of sciences; the American jjhilosophical society, and the Na- tional academy of science. In 1873 he was made a fellow of the Anierican academy of arts and sciences. He joined tlie American association for the advancement of science in 1869, was ad- vanced to fellow in 187o, was elected vice-presi- dent of the section on biology in 1888 and president of the association in 1890. He received the de- gree of A.M. from Amherst in 1866 and from Bowdoin in 1869, and that of LL.D. from Amherst in 1890, from Bowdoin in 1894, and from Prince- ton in 1897. His published works are devoted chiefly to physiological and economic botanj'.

QOODALE, Stephen Lincoln, agriculturist, was born in South Berwick, JMaine, Aug. 14, 1815; son of Enoch and Lucy (Lincoln) Goodale. He attended Thornton academy, Saco, Maine, 1828- 31, and prepared for college but did not enter, devoting his time chiefiy to the study of phar- macy and scientific agriculture. He was married Sept. 23, 1838, to Prudence Aiken Nourse. and had five children. Prof Georjre Lincoln Goodale of Cambridge, Caroline Goodale, Benjamin N.


Goodale and Dr. AValter T. Goodale of Saco, and Alfred M. Goodale of Waltham, Mass. Mr. Goodale was secretary of the state board of agri- culture, 1856-73, and the author of numerous val- uable treatises on scientific agriculture. He died in Saco, Maine, Nov. 5, 1897.

QOODE, Charles Thomas, soldier, was born in Tliomaston, Ga. , Oct. 26, 1835; son of Judge Thomas Whitfield and Amanda Virginia (Minor) Goode; grandson of Jolm and Elizabeth (Whit- field) Goode ; great-grandson of John and Frances (Hunter Goode) and grand-nephew of Governor James Whitfield of Mississippi. He was gradu- ated from the University of Georgia in 1853, and practised law at Thomaston and Perry, Ga. In 1861 he entered the Confederate army as captain in the Houston volunteers and at the close of the war was colonel of the Tenth Confederate regi- ment. Three horses were killed beneath him and he received a serious wound at Chickamauga. He practised law in Amerious, was a presidential elector in 1869 and a delegate to the Democratic national convention in 1873. He was a trustee of the University of Georgia, 1874-75. He died in Amerious, Ga.. Jan. 15, 1875.

GOODE, Flavillus Sidney, lawyer, was born in Perry county, Ala., Jan. 24, 1831; son of the Hon. Sydney Moore and Louisa (Scudday) Goode; grandson of William and Sarah (James) Goode; great-grandson of Bennet and Martha (Jeff^erson) Goode; great^ grandson of John Goode, and great ^ grand.son of John and Anne (Bennet) Goode. He was educated at Oakland college and at the University of North Carolina; was ad- mitted to the bar in 18.)3, and practised in Thibo- daux, Terre Bonne parish. La., where he also carried on a sugar plantation. He was a member of the state senate, 1857-f8. In 1861 he entered the Confederate army and was captain of the Grivot guards in the Peninsula campaign. He was attorney -general of Louisiana, 1862-65; served in the state senate. 1874-78, an<l was judge of the superior court, 1879-86. He died in Thibodaux, La. in 1886.

QOODE. George Brown, naturalist, was born in New Albany, Ind., Feb. 13, 1851; son of Fran- cis Collier and Sarah Woodruff (Crane) Goode; grandson of Philip and Rebekah (Hayes) Goode, and of Israel Cooper Crane; great-grandson of Samuel and Mary (Collier) Goode; great' grand- son of Samueland (Bunnell) Goode, and great'

grandson of Samuel and Martha (Jones) Goode. This Samuel was born in the Island of Barbadoes in 1655, and settled with his parents in Virginia about 1734. George Brown Goode's paternal grandfather had removed with four brothers from Virginia in 1804, and settled in the new state of Ohio; and his maternal grandfather came from New Jersey about the same time and