Biography of Samuel Goodwin, pages 873 / 874.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Samuel Goodwin, one of the old settlers and representative citizens of Union 
Township, was born in Center County, Pa., in October 1816, the second son of 
seven children of David and Catherine (Zimmerman) Goodwin, native of 
Pennsylvania.  In 1822 his parents moved to Wayne County, Ohio, and 
subsequently to Ashland County, where the father died and where Samuel grew 
to manhood.  He was married in 1843 to Elizabeth Good, and settled in 
Ashland County, Ohio, where they lived till 1854, when they moved to De 
Kalb County, Ind., and settled on the farm where he now lives.  At that 
time it was a tract of heavily timbered land, but by hard work and 
perseverance he has cleared and reduced it to an advanced state of 
cultivation.  He owns 115 acres of choice land and his residence and farm 
buildings are large and comfortable.  Although his early years were full of 
toil and hardship, he has accumulated a good property, and his latter years 
can be spent in comparative ease, free from care and labor, with a 
consciousness that his life has not been lived in vain.  His wife died in 
1865, leaving five children---Mary E., now the wife of Alfred Keck; 
Leander S. married Rebecca Hively;  Joseph W. married Olivia M. Brown; 
Lucy, now Mrs. Stephen George; Alice, now Mrs. William Atwood.  Mr. 
Goodwin subsequently married Mrs. Mary J. (Prosser) Brubaker, and to them 
have been born three children---Ina, married, Frank Parnell and William F.  
Mrs. Goodwin has three daughters by her former marriage---Jennie, wife of 
Philemon Goodwin; Catherine , wife of Oscar Zimmerman; and Emma, wife of 
John Lilling.  Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin are members of the United Brethren 
church, and take an active part in the promotion of all objects of a 
religious or charitable nature.

Submitted by:
Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
Agoodwin@ctlnet.com