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Gift of Laura Harding Brewer and Kate Cheney Chappell, 2022.38.16, Connecticut Historical Socie ...
James Mather Goodwin
Gift of Laura Harding Brewer and Kate Cheney Chappell, 2022.38.16, Connecticut Historical Society, No Known Copyright

James Mather Goodwin

American, 1785 - 1870
BiographyJames Mather Goodwin (24 Aug. 1785 - 30 March 1870) was the son of James Goodwin (1754-1823) and Hannah Mather Goodwin (1762-1805). He had five siblings: Roxana Goodwin Wells (1784-1875), Mary Goodwin Spencer (1787-1870), Manning Goodwin (1789-1789), Manning Goodwin (1790-1832), and Erastus Goodwin (1795-1882).

He married Roxanna Bulkeley (1788-1869) in 1809. They had five children: Mary Goodwin (d. 1817), William Alfred Goodwin (d. 1838), James Mather Goodwin (1809-1879), Mary Jane Goodwin Brainard (1818-1899), and Henry Wheaton Goodwin (1823-1876).
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