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- I. E. GOODALL, fire, life and accidental insurance, and real
estate,
- loan agent and Notary Public, State street; was born June
25, 1820, at Bath, Grafton Co., N.H.; came to Wisconsin July
4, 1841, locating at Milwaukee, to which place he brought a stock
of goods and commenced a general merchandise business in connection
with Mr. E. B. HOLTON, under the firm name of HOLTON & GOODALL;
they also started an ashery in connection with that business,
for the manufacture of pearlash and saleratus; this firm shipped
the first cargo of wheat from Milwaukee to Buffalo, on board
the bark Champion, which was built at Milwaukee, this being her
first trip; the firm continued for six years, when they separated,
and Mr. GOODALL continued business on his own account till about
1852.
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- Mr. GOODALL was Treasurer for two years of the Milwaukee
& Mississippi Railroad, now
- known as the Milwaukee & Prairie Du Chien Railroad. About
September 1, 1857, he moved to Beloit, where, in 1867, he engaged
in the insurance business, and is now representing the following
Companies: The Home, of New York; Niagara, of New York; Glens
Falls, of Glens Falls, N.Y.; Northern, of Watertown, N.Y.; Girard,
of Philadelphia; Merchants' & People's of Newark, N.J.; Connecticut,
of Hartford; Roger Williams, of Rhode Island; Western of Manchester,
N.H.; La Caisse Generale, of Paris, France; and the Northwestern
Mutual Life of Milwaukee and the Travelers' Accident Insurance.
Mr. GOODALL was Alderman of Milwaukee in 1850, and represented
Milwaukee in the Assembly in 1854-55; he was also Assessor of
Milwaukee, and was appointed by the Council, in connection with
Increase A. LAPHAM, to establish the boundaries of streets on
account of the lines of survey not agreeing; was also, in 1872,
Justice of the Peace for one year, and Assignee under the United
States District Court, in 1869, and for six years was Assessor
of Beloit. Mr. GOODALL married, September 26, 1842, Mary FRENCH,
of Bath, N.H.; he has one child living - Luella. Members of the
First Congregational Church at Beloit.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 749; lithograph p. 649.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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