Biography of Philander Goodrich, pages 568 / 569.  History of De Kalb 
County, Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Philander Goodrich, deceased, was born in the State of New York in 1809, a 
son of Zebulon and ______, Goodrich, his father of Puritan and his mother of 
German descent.  He was reared on a farm, remaining with his parents till 
manhood.  He was married about 1836 to Salmeda Jewett, a native of Connecticut.  
In the fall of 1840 they moved to Lagrange County, Ind., where his wife died 
in 1841.  Mr. Goodrich afterward moved to Steuben County, and in 1846 to De 
Kalb County and settled in Smithfield Township, but in less than a year 
moved to Fairfield Township and bought a tract of unimproved land, which he 
began to improve, and on which he lived till his death in 1856.  His family 
consisted of three children, two sons and a daughter---David, William A. and 
Harriet.  The Latter is deceased.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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