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Dr Addison Wight Goodale

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Dr Addison Wight Goodale

Birth
Fowler, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
Death
1885 (aged 53–54)
Jefferson County, New York, USA
Burial
Antwerp, Jefferson County, New York, USA Add to Map
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Addison W. Goodale was born August 17, 1831, in Fowler, St. Lawrence county. He attended the country schools as a boy, and later studied at the Gouverneur Wesleyan (subsequently Ives) Seminary.

In 1855 he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Ira H. Abel, of Antwerp, meanwhile attending lectures at the Albany Medical College.

At the end of three years, in June, 1858, he was graduated from the Medical College, and began practice in South Rutland. He remained there in successful practice until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he enlisted in the Tenth New York Heavy Artillery, and remained with this organization as assistant surgeon until the close of hostilities. After two years more of practice in South Rutland, he removed to Watertown and took up practice

After two years in South Rutland he moved to Watertown and became an adjuster and superintendent of physicians for the Phoenix Life Ins. Co.

He married on 12 Aug 1858 to HELEN J. FOWLER of Antwerp, daughter of LESTER N. FOWLER.

Children of ADDISON W. GOODALE and HELEN J. FOWLER:
A) HATTIE G. GOODALE married ARTHUR B. ABERNETHY of NY City.
B) FLORENCE GOODALE married FRANCIS M. HUGO of Watertown NY
b) HELEN GOODALE married ALVIN CONKLIN of Rutland NY; ALVIN CONKLIN Conklin was the son of DAVID CONKLING (sic) and JOANNA GILBERT who had a family of 17 children. DAVID came from S. Salem NY to Rutland in 1808 and bought 80 acres of land.
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HELEN GOODALE and ALVIN CONKLIN/CONKLING had three children; two adopted daughters were:
i) EULA DELL GOODALE (Mrs ARTHUR G. BEALS) of Carthage, and
ii) SARAH GOODALE. Sarah was murdered on 30 Nov 1875 at the age of 10 years.
c) WARREN JOHNSON GOODALE who lived in Binghamton
d) infant deceased
e) ESTELLE GOODALE died Antwerp at 20 years
(Source: Oakes)
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Name: Addison W A Goodale
Father: Ruggles Goodale
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ADDISON W. GOODALE. was born 17 Aug 1831 in Fowler, St. Lawrence Co. In 1855 he began the study of medicine with Dr. Ira H. Abel of Antwerp. In June 1858 he graduated from medical college and began his practice in South Rutland. While serving in the Civil War he was an assistant surgeon until the end of the War. After two years in South Rutland he moved to Watertown and became an adjuster and superintendent of physicians for the Phoenix Life Ins. Co. He married on 12 Aug 1858 to HELEN J. FOWLER of Antwerp, daughter of LESTER N. FOWLER.
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Helen was the daughter of Lester N. Fowler. She married Addison W. Goodale and they had the following children:
1. Hattie G. Goodale who married Arthur B. Abernethy.
2. Florence Goodale who married Francis M Hugo
3. Helen Goodale who married Alvin Conklin
4. Warren Johnson Goodale
5. Estelle Goodale
6. Infant (died young)
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ADDISON WIGHT GOODALE, M. D., one of the oldest and best known physicians of Jefferson county, has had a varied professional career, and is now enjoying in contentment the fruits of a busy life. His ancestry has been traced to an early day in New England, and he preserves intact those qualities which were essential in settling a wilderness three thousand miles from the base of operations and inhabited by savages.

(I) Robert Goodale. aged thirty years, came from Ipswich, England, with his wife Catherine and three children, to America, arriving April 3. 1634, at Ipswich, Massachusetts, and settled in that part of the town now Danvers. They crossed in the ship Elizaleth, William Andrews, master. Five children were born to them after their arrival.

(II) Isaac, son of Roliert and Catherine Goodale, was born in 1633, in England, and died at the age of seventy-nine years. His wife was Patience Cook.

(III) Isaac (2), son of Isaac (i) and Patience (Cook) Goodale, was bom March 29, 1670, and lived in Salem, where his will was proved in 1739. From this document it is learned that his wife's name was Mary, and that he had seven children.

(IV) Enos, son of Isaac (2) and Mary Goodale, was born No-
vember 2, 1 718, in Salem. He married Mary Angier and lived in Marlborough and Shrewsbury. Massachusetts. He had three children.

(V) Aaron Goodale, son ol Enos and Mary (Angier) Goodale,
married Eunice Marshall, of Holden, Massach.usetts, in 1767, and subequently settled in Salem, New York.

(VI) Aaron Goodale, of Salem, New York, married Betsey Ruggles, February 9, 1802. She was a daughter of Beujamin and Ehzabeth Ruggles (the latter, probably, a dauglitcr of Deacon James Fay), the former a son of Benjamin Ruggles, who was a son of Benjamin Ruggles (see Ruggles, V). Betsey Ruggles was born August 9, 1780.

Aaron Goodale was a pioneer settler of Fowler, St. Lawrence county, this state, and passed his last fifteen years with a daughter at Hailesboro, in that county, where he died at the age of ninety-five years. His wife died about 1865-8. They had two sons and four daughters.

(VII) Ruggles Goodale, eldest child of Aaron and Betsey (Ruggles) Goodale, was born September 10, 1S03, in Salem, New York.

He settled in Fowler, where he continued farming until 1865, when he moved to the village of Antwerp, this county, and passed the balance of his life in retirement from the arduous labor of the farm, and died December, 1886. In August. 1830, he married Betsey Wight, who as born September 10, 18 10, in Oppenheim, Herkimer county, this state, a daughter of Abner and Polly (Hooper) Wight. She died September, 1888, in Rutland. She was the mother of fie children. Addison W. is the eldest.

Helen married Alvin Conklin, of Rutland. She died while visiting a daughter at Carthage.

Warren Johnson Goodale, the third, resides in Binghamlon, this state. One child died when one week old. Estelle E. died, unmarried, in Antwerp, aged twenty years.

Mr. Goodale was a member of the Baptist church at Fowler. He served several terms as assessor of his town. A Democrat in early life, he was a supporter of the Republican party from its organization.

(VIII) Addison W. Goodale was born August 17, 1831, in Fowler, St. Lawrence county. He attended the country schools as a boy, and later studied at the Gouverneur Wesleyan (subsequently Ives) Seminary. In 1855 he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Ira H. Abel, of Antwerp, meanwhile attending lectures at the Albany Medical College. At the end of three years, in June, 1858, he was graduated from the Medical College, and began practice in South Rutland. He remained there in successful practice until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he enlisted in the Tenth New York Heavy Artillery, and remained with this organization as assistant surgeon until the close of hostilities.

After two years more of jiracticc in South Rutland, he removed to Watertown and took up practice in that growing city. A year later he was engaged by the Phoenix Life Insurance Com])any, of Hartford, Connecticut, as adjuster and superintendent of physicians. For the succeeding twenty years he was in this service, being located successively at Canandaigua, Syracuse and Hartford, and, for four years following 1884, in New York city. Since 1888 the doctor has been a resident of Watertown, in retirement from active practice, but interested in various undertakings for the promotion of the material and moral progress of the community.

Dr. Goodale has been a trustee of the Thousand Island Park Association since 1883, was for several years its treasurer and is now secretary. He is also a director of the Alexandria Steamboat Company, and president of the Farmers' and Traders' Bank, of Kimball, South Dakota.

He is one of the censors of the Jefferson County Medical Society and, for ten years, has been a health officer at Thousand Island Park. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and has affiliated with the Masonic fraternity since 1863. He is a member of the First Presbyterian church of Watertown, and of the Union Club, of which he has been president two terms.

He was married August 12, 1858, to Miss Helen J. Fowler, of Antwerp, a daughter of Lester N. Fowler (see Fowler, VIII). Two daughters complete the family of Dr. and Mrs. Goodale.
1. Hattie G. is the widow of Arthur B. Abernathy, of New York city.
2. Florence is the wife of Francis M. Hugo, an attorney of Watertown.

Mrs. Abernetliy has a son, Grenville Goodale Abernethy, who is a student at Princeton University, in the class of 1907.
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Children of RUGGLES GOODALE and BETSEY WRIGHT/WIGHT:

a)ADDISON W. GOODALE. was born 17 Aug 1831 in Fowler, St. Lawrence Co. In 1855 he began the study of medicine with Dr. Ira H. Abel of Antwerp. In June 1858 he graduated from medical college and began his practice in South Rutland. While serving in the Civil War he was an assistant surgeon until the end of the War. After two years in South Rutland he moved to Watertown and became an adjuster and superintendent of physicians for the Phoenix Life Ins. Co. He married on 12 Aug 1858 to HELEN J. FOWLER of Antwerp, daughter of LESTER N. FOWLER.

Children of ADDISON W. GOODALE and HELEN J. FOWLER:

A) HATTIE G. GOODALE married ARTHUR B. ABERNETHY of NY City.

B) FLORENCE GOODALE married FRANCIS M. HUGO of Watertown NY
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Addison W. Goodale was born August 17, 1831, in Fow-
ler, St. Lawrence county. He attended the country schools as a boy, and later studied at the Gouverneur Wesleyan (subsequently Ives) Seminary. In 1855 he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Ira H. Abel, of Antwerp, meanwhile attending lectures at the Albany Medical College. At the end of three years, in June, 1858, he was graduated from the Medical College, and began practice in South Rutland. He remained there in successful practice until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he enlisted in the Tenth New York Heavy Artillery, and remained
with this organization as assistant surgeon until the close of hostilities.

After two years more of practice in South Rutland, he removed to Watertown and took up practice in that growing city. A year later he was engaged by the Phoenix Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connecticut, as adjuster and superintendent of physicians. For the succeeding twenty years he was in this service, being located successively at Canandaigxia, Syracuse and Hartfard, and, for four years following 1884, in New York city. Since 1888 the doctor has been a resident of Watertown,. in retirement from active practice, but interested in
various undertakings for the promotion of the material and moral progress of the community.

Dr. Goodale has been a trustee of the Thousand Island Park Association since 1883, was for several years its treasurer and is now secretary. He is also a director of the Alexandria Steamboat Company, and president of the Farmers' and Traders' Bank, of Kimball, South Dakota.
He is one of the censors of the Jefferson County Medical Society and, for ten years, has been a health officer at Thousand Island Park. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and has affiliated with the Masonic fraternity since 1863. He is a member of the First Presbyterian church of Watertown, and of the Union Club, of which he has been president two terms.

He was married August 12, 1858, to Miss Helen J. Fowler, of Antwerp, a daughter of Lester N. Fowler (see Fowler, VIII). Two daughters complete the family of Dr. and Mrs. Goodale. Hattie G. is the widow of Arthur B. Abernethy, of New York city. Florence is the wife of Francis M. Hugo, an attorney of Watertown. Mrs. Abernethy has a son, Grenville Goodale Abernethy, who is a student at Princeton University, in the class of 1907.
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Addison W. Goodale was born August 17, 1831, in Fowler, St. Lawrence county. He attended the country schools as a boy, and later studied at the Gouverneur Wesleyan (subsequently Ives) Seminary. In 1855 he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Ira H. Abel, of Antwerp, meanwhile attending lectures at the Albany Medical College. At the end of three years, in June, 1858, he was graduated
from the Medical College, and began practice in South Rutland. He
remained there in successful practice until the outbreak of the Civil war,
when he enlisted in the Tenth New York Heavy Artillery, and remained
with this organization as assistant surgeon until the close of hostilities.

After two years more of practice in South Rutland, he removed
to Watertown and took up practice in that growing city. A year later
he was engaged by the Phoenix Life Insurance Company, of Hartford,
Connecticut, as adjuster and superintendent of physicians. For the succeeding twenty years he was in this service, being located successively
at Canandaigua, Syracuse and Hartford, and, for four years following
1884, in New York city. Since 1888 the doctor has been a resident
of Watertown,. in retirement from active practice, but interested in
various undertakings for the promotion of the material and moral progress of the community.

Dr. Goodale has been a trustee of the Thousand Island Park Association since 1883, was for several years its treasurer and is now secretary. He is also a director of the Alexandria Steamboat Company, and president of the Farmers' and Traders' Bank, of Kimball, South Dakota.

He is one of the censors of the Jefferson County Medical Society and,
for ten years, has been a health officer at Thousand Island Park. He
is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and has affiliated with
the Masonic fraternity since 1863. He is a member of the First Presbyterian church of Watertown, and of the Union Club, of which he
has been president two terms.

He was married August 12, 1858, to Miss Helen J. Fowler, of
Antwerp, a daughter of Lester N. Fowler (see Fowler, VIII). Two
daughters complete the family of Dr. and Mrs. Goodale. Hattie G.
is the widow of Arthur B. Abernethy, of New York city. Florence is
the wife of Francis M. Hugo, an attorney of Watertown. Mrs. Aber-
nethy has a son, Grenville Goodale Abernethy, who is a student at
Princeton University, in the class of 1907.
Addison W. Goodale was born August 17, 1831, in Fowler, St. Lawrence county. He attended the country schools as a boy, and later studied at the Gouverneur Wesleyan (subsequently Ives) Seminary.

In 1855 he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Ira H. Abel, of Antwerp, meanwhile attending lectures at the Albany Medical College.

At the end of three years, in June, 1858, he was graduated from the Medical College, and began practice in South Rutland. He remained there in successful practice until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he enlisted in the Tenth New York Heavy Artillery, and remained with this organization as assistant surgeon until the close of hostilities. After two years more of practice in South Rutland, he removed to Watertown and took up practice

After two years in South Rutland he moved to Watertown and became an adjuster and superintendent of physicians for the Phoenix Life Ins. Co.

He married on 12 Aug 1858 to HELEN J. FOWLER of Antwerp, daughter of LESTER N. FOWLER.

Children of ADDISON W. GOODALE and HELEN J. FOWLER:
A) HATTIE G. GOODALE married ARTHUR B. ABERNETHY of NY City.
B) FLORENCE GOODALE married FRANCIS M. HUGO of Watertown NY
b) HELEN GOODALE married ALVIN CONKLIN of Rutland NY; ALVIN CONKLIN Conklin was the son of DAVID CONKLING (sic) and JOANNA GILBERT who had a family of 17 children. DAVID came from S. Salem NY to Rutland in 1808 and bought 80 acres of land.
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HELEN GOODALE and ALVIN CONKLIN/CONKLING had three children; two adopted daughters were:
i) EULA DELL GOODALE (Mrs ARTHUR G. BEALS) of Carthage, and
ii) SARAH GOODALE. Sarah was murdered on 30 Nov 1875 at the age of 10 years.
c) WARREN JOHNSON GOODALE who lived in Binghamton
d) infant deceased
e) ESTELLE GOODALE died Antwerp at 20 years
(Source: Oakes)
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Name: Addison W A Goodale
Father: Ruggles Goodale
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ADDISON W. GOODALE. was born 17 Aug 1831 in Fowler, St. Lawrence Co. In 1855 he began the study of medicine with Dr. Ira H. Abel of Antwerp. In June 1858 he graduated from medical college and began his practice in South Rutland. While serving in the Civil War he was an assistant surgeon until the end of the War. After two years in South Rutland he moved to Watertown and became an adjuster and superintendent of physicians for the Phoenix Life Ins. Co. He married on 12 Aug 1858 to HELEN J. FOWLER of Antwerp, daughter of LESTER N. FOWLER.
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Helen was the daughter of Lester N. Fowler. She married Addison W. Goodale and they had the following children:
1. Hattie G. Goodale who married Arthur B. Abernethy.
2. Florence Goodale who married Francis M Hugo
3. Helen Goodale who married Alvin Conklin
4. Warren Johnson Goodale
5. Estelle Goodale
6. Infant (died young)
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ADDISON WIGHT GOODALE, M. D., one of the oldest and best known physicians of Jefferson county, has had a varied professional career, and is now enjoying in contentment the fruits of a busy life. His ancestry has been traced to an early day in New England, and he preserves intact those qualities which were essential in settling a wilderness three thousand miles from the base of operations and inhabited by savages.

(I) Robert Goodale. aged thirty years, came from Ipswich, England, with his wife Catherine and three children, to America, arriving April 3. 1634, at Ipswich, Massachusetts, and settled in that part of the town now Danvers. They crossed in the ship Elizaleth, William Andrews, master. Five children were born to them after their arrival.

(II) Isaac, son of Roliert and Catherine Goodale, was born in 1633, in England, and died at the age of seventy-nine years. His wife was Patience Cook.

(III) Isaac (2), son of Isaac (i) and Patience (Cook) Goodale, was bom March 29, 1670, and lived in Salem, where his will was proved in 1739. From this document it is learned that his wife's name was Mary, and that he had seven children.

(IV) Enos, son of Isaac (2) and Mary Goodale, was born No-
vember 2, 1 718, in Salem. He married Mary Angier and lived in Marlborough and Shrewsbury. Massachusetts. He had three children.

(V) Aaron Goodale, son ol Enos and Mary (Angier) Goodale,
married Eunice Marshall, of Holden, Massach.usetts, in 1767, and subequently settled in Salem, New York.

(VI) Aaron Goodale, of Salem, New York, married Betsey Ruggles, February 9, 1802. She was a daughter of Beujamin and Ehzabeth Ruggles (the latter, probably, a dauglitcr of Deacon James Fay), the former a son of Benjamin Ruggles, who was a son of Benjamin Ruggles (see Ruggles, V). Betsey Ruggles was born August 9, 1780.

Aaron Goodale was a pioneer settler of Fowler, St. Lawrence county, this state, and passed his last fifteen years with a daughter at Hailesboro, in that county, where he died at the age of ninety-five years. His wife died about 1865-8. They had two sons and four daughters.

(VII) Ruggles Goodale, eldest child of Aaron and Betsey (Ruggles) Goodale, was born September 10, 1S03, in Salem, New York.

He settled in Fowler, where he continued farming until 1865, when he moved to the village of Antwerp, this county, and passed the balance of his life in retirement from the arduous labor of the farm, and died December, 1886. In August. 1830, he married Betsey Wight, who as born September 10, 18 10, in Oppenheim, Herkimer county, this state, a daughter of Abner and Polly (Hooper) Wight. She died September, 1888, in Rutland. She was the mother of fie children. Addison W. is the eldest.

Helen married Alvin Conklin, of Rutland. She died while visiting a daughter at Carthage.

Warren Johnson Goodale, the third, resides in Binghamlon, this state. One child died when one week old. Estelle E. died, unmarried, in Antwerp, aged twenty years.

Mr. Goodale was a member of the Baptist church at Fowler. He served several terms as assessor of his town. A Democrat in early life, he was a supporter of the Republican party from its organization.

(VIII) Addison W. Goodale was born August 17, 1831, in Fowler, St. Lawrence county. He attended the country schools as a boy, and later studied at the Gouverneur Wesleyan (subsequently Ives) Seminary. In 1855 he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Ira H. Abel, of Antwerp, meanwhile attending lectures at the Albany Medical College. At the end of three years, in June, 1858, he was graduated from the Medical College, and began practice in South Rutland. He remained there in successful practice until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he enlisted in the Tenth New York Heavy Artillery, and remained with this organization as assistant surgeon until the close of hostilities.

After two years more of jiracticc in South Rutland, he removed to Watertown and took up practice in that growing city. A year later he was engaged by the Phoenix Life Insurance Com])any, of Hartford, Connecticut, as adjuster and superintendent of physicians. For the succeeding twenty years he was in this service, being located successively at Canandaigua, Syracuse and Hartford, and, for four years following 1884, in New York city. Since 1888 the doctor has been a resident of Watertown, in retirement from active practice, but interested in various undertakings for the promotion of the material and moral progress of the community.

Dr. Goodale has been a trustee of the Thousand Island Park Association since 1883, was for several years its treasurer and is now secretary. He is also a director of the Alexandria Steamboat Company, and president of the Farmers' and Traders' Bank, of Kimball, South Dakota.

He is one of the censors of the Jefferson County Medical Society and, for ten years, has been a health officer at Thousand Island Park. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and has affiliated with the Masonic fraternity since 1863. He is a member of the First Presbyterian church of Watertown, and of the Union Club, of which he has been president two terms.

He was married August 12, 1858, to Miss Helen J. Fowler, of Antwerp, a daughter of Lester N. Fowler (see Fowler, VIII). Two daughters complete the family of Dr. and Mrs. Goodale.
1. Hattie G. is the widow of Arthur B. Abernathy, of New York city.
2. Florence is the wife of Francis M. Hugo, an attorney of Watertown.

Mrs. Abernetliy has a son, Grenville Goodale Abernethy, who is a student at Princeton University, in the class of 1907.
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Children of RUGGLES GOODALE and BETSEY WRIGHT/WIGHT:

a)ADDISON W. GOODALE. was born 17 Aug 1831 in Fowler, St. Lawrence Co. In 1855 he began the study of medicine with Dr. Ira H. Abel of Antwerp. In June 1858 he graduated from medical college and began his practice in South Rutland. While serving in the Civil War he was an assistant surgeon until the end of the War. After two years in South Rutland he moved to Watertown and became an adjuster and superintendent of physicians for the Phoenix Life Ins. Co. He married on 12 Aug 1858 to HELEN J. FOWLER of Antwerp, daughter of LESTER N. FOWLER.

Children of ADDISON W. GOODALE and HELEN J. FOWLER:

A) HATTIE G. GOODALE married ARTHUR B. ABERNETHY of NY City.

B) FLORENCE GOODALE married FRANCIS M. HUGO of Watertown NY
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Addison W. Goodale was born August 17, 1831, in Fow-
ler, St. Lawrence county. He attended the country schools as a boy, and later studied at the Gouverneur Wesleyan (subsequently Ives) Seminary. In 1855 he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Ira H. Abel, of Antwerp, meanwhile attending lectures at the Albany Medical College. At the end of three years, in June, 1858, he was graduated from the Medical College, and began practice in South Rutland. He remained there in successful practice until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he enlisted in the Tenth New York Heavy Artillery, and remained
with this organization as assistant surgeon until the close of hostilities.

After two years more of practice in South Rutland, he removed to Watertown and took up practice in that growing city. A year later he was engaged by the Phoenix Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connecticut, as adjuster and superintendent of physicians. For the succeeding twenty years he was in this service, being located successively at Canandaigxia, Syracuse and Hartfard, and, for four years following 1884, in New York city. Since 1888 the doctor has been a resident of Watertown,. in retirement from active practice, but interested in
various undertakings for the promotion of the material and moral progress of the community.

Dr. Goodale has been a trustee of the Thousand Island Park Association since 1883, was for several years its treasurer and is now secretary. He is also a director of the Alexandria Steamboat Company, and president of the Farmers' and Traders' Bank, of Kimball, South Dakota.
He is one of the censors of the Jefferson County Medical Society and, for ten years, has been a health officer at Thousand Island Park. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and has affiliated with the Masonic fraternity since 1863. He is a member of the First Presbyterian church of Watertown, and of the Union Club, of which he has been president two terms.

He was married August 12, 1858, to Miss Helen J. Fowler, of Antwerp, a daughter of Lester N. Fowler (see Fowler, VIII). Two daughters complete the family of Dr. and Mrs. Goodale. Hattie G. is the widow of Arthur B. Abernethy, of New York city. Florence is the wife of Francis M. Hugo, an attorney of Watertown. Mrs. Abernethy has a son, Grenville Goodale Abernethy, who is a student at Princeton University, in the class of 1907.
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Addison W. Goodale was born August 17, 1831, in Fowler, St. Lawrence county. He attended the country schools as a boy, and later studied at the Gouverneur Wesleyan (subsequently Ives) Seminary. In 1855 he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Ira H. Abel, of Antwerp, meanwhile attending lectures at the Albany Medical College. At the end of three years, in June, 1858, he was graduated
from the Medical College, and began practice in South Rutland. He
remained there in successful practice until the outbreak of the Civil war,
when he enlisted in the Tenth New York Heavy Artillery, and remained
with this organization as assistant surgeon until the close of hostilities.

After two years more of practice in South Rutland, he removed
to Watertown and took up practice in that growing city. A year later
he was engaged by the Phoenix Life Insurance Company, of Hartford,
Connecticut, as adjuster and superintendent of physicians. For the succeeding twenty years he was in this service, being located successively
at Canandaigua, Syracuse and Hartford, and, for four years following
1884, in New York city. Since 1888 the doctor has been a resident
of Watertown,. in retirement from active practice, but interested in
various undertakings for the promotion of the material and moral progress of the community.

Dr. Goodale has been a trustee of the Thousand Island Park Association since 1883, was for several years its treasurer and is now secretary. He is also a director of the Alexandria Steamboat Company, and president of the Farmers' and Traders' Bank, of Kimball, South Dakota.

He is one of the censors of the Jefferson County Medical Society and,
for ten years, has been a health officer at Thousand Island Park. He
is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and has affiliated with
the Masonic fraternity since 1863. He is a member of the First Presbyterian church of Watertown, and of the Union Club, of which he
has been president two terms.

He was married August 12, 1858, to Miss Helen J. Fowler, of
Antwerp, a daughter of Lester N. Fowler (see Fowler, VIII). Two
daughters complete the family of Dr. and Mrs. Goodale. Hattie G.
is the widow of Arthur B. Abernethy, of New York city. Florence is
the wife of Francis M. Hugo, an attorney of Watertown. Mrs. Aber-
nethy has a son, Grenville Goodale Abernethy, who is a student at
Princeton University, in the class of 1907.


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