Biography of Samuel L. Goodwin, pages 505/506/507.  History of DeKalb 
County, Indiana; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1914.



Samuel L. Goodwin



	The careers of such men as Samuel L. Goodwin may not necessarily 
be such as to gain them a wide reputation or the admiring plaudits of 
men, but they are nevertheless influential and deserving of a place in 
their locality’s history, because they have been true to whatever trust 
have been reposed in them, and have shown such attributes of character 
as entitled them to the regard of all and have been useful in their 
respective spheres of action. Mr. Goodwin seems the have won and 
retained the universal esteem of all with whom he has come into contact 
as a result of his industrious and upright career, being well known 
throughout DeKalb county.

	Samuel L. Goodwin was born in Waterloo, DeKalb county, Indiana, 
on August 6, 1879, and is a son of Leander Goodwin, who is represented 
in a personal sketch elsewhere in this work.  The subject was reared 
under the paternal roof, securing his education in the public schools 
of that locality and when about nineteen years old he learned 
telegraphy.  He then became operator of the Lake Shore railroad between 
Toledo and Detroit. In 1902 he and J. A. Miller entered into 
partnership in the coal and lumber business at Waterloo, remaining 
associated together about five years.  Mr. Goodwin then went into the 
lumber business in partnership with his brother at Waterloo under the 
firm name of Goodwin Lumber Company, which business was carried on 
about two years.  Then for a short time Mr. Goodwin engaged in the 
brokerage business at Fort Wayne, but his partner left without notice, 
taking with him the firm’s funds, and it, of course, crippled Mr. 
Goodwin financially.  However he was not made of the metal that easily 
gives up an at once turned his attention to other pursuits.  In July, 
1910, Mr. Goodwin engaged in the poultry and produce business at 
Waterloo and in this line he has achieved a splendid success, being now 
a good financial circumstances and numbered among the substantial, 
enterprising and progressive business men of his town.

In July, 1903 Mr. Goodwin was married to Margie C. Campbell, who was 
born in Waterloo, Indiana, the daughter of J. D. and Ellen (Bachelor) 
Campbell. Ellen Bachelor was born about nine miles northwest of Angola, 
and is the daughter of Amos and Susanna Bachelor, who came from Ohio to 
Steuben county and in 1869 moved to Waterloo.  After living there, six 
years they moved back to Steuben county.  J. D. Campbell was born three 
miles northwest of Waterloo, and is the son of Abel and Jane (Taylor) 
Campbell, who came from Stark county, Ohio, in 1844, and settled where 
Mr. Campbell was born.  They there bought land for one dollar a quarter 
per acre.  Here were Indians frequently to be seen and in other ways 
the land was in its virgin state of wildness. When J. D. Campbell was 
sixteen years old he came to Waterloo and a year later began work in a 
drug store and was employed in the drug business in Waterloo until 
about 1903, a period of thirty-eight years.  He was in business for 
himself from 1876 on and maintained his home at Waterloo. He was a 
member of the town board two terms and town treasurer four or five 
terms.  To Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin have been born three children: Wayne, 
now nine years old; Marjorie June, two years old, and a son, Carroll, 
who died in 1910, aged about two years. In 1910 Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin 
adopted a boy named Reginald, who was born in Milwaukee and was found 
by Mr. Goodwin through an advertisement in the Delineator, and they are 
giving to this boy the same careful attention and loving kindness that 
they bestow upon their own children. Personally, Mr. Goodwin is a man 
whom everybody likes, genial, optimistic, honorable in all his dealings 
with his fellow men, and is always ready to do his part in the support 
of the interests of his locality.  He has not had things entirely his 
own way since entering life’s battle on his own account, but he has 
over come all obstacles and is now on the highway to success.  Because 
of his earnest character and honest effort he has earned and retains 
the confidence and good will of all who know him.



Submitted by:

Arlene Goodwin

Auburn, Indiana

Agoodwin@ctlnet.com