C. M. Goodrich

As printed in 1912

C. M. GOODRICH (1869), retired farmer and for the past five years a resident of Garvin, is one of the county's old settlers. He is the owner of 213 acres of well-improved land in Custer township and is a stockholder in the Farmers Independent Elevator Company of Garvin.

The Empire State is the birthplace and boyhood home of C. M. Goodrich. His father, Allen Goodrich, was a native of Connecticut, and his mother, Elizabeth (Stevens) Goodrich, was born in Vermont Both are deceased. Our subject was born January 17. 1846, and his first years were spent in New York State. In 1854 he and his mother and two sisters moved to Wisconsin and made their home on a farm. The following spring they moved to Olmsted county, Minnesota, where they resided until 1858. Then until 1862 they lived in Waseca county. Thev returned to Olmsted county for another year's residence and later spent several years in Rice county.

In 1869 Mr. Goodrich and his mother came to Lyon county, and they took adjoining homesteads in Custer township in the early seventies. They were among the first settlers and their experience is the story of pioneer days, punctuated with struggles and hardships. Mr. Goodrich farmer on his homestead practically all of the time from the early seventies until he moved to Garvin a few years ago.

Mr. Goodrich is a member of the Masonic lodge. He is a respected citizen of the community and is enjoying a well-earned rest after a lifetime of hard and honest toil. He has watched the country grow and prosper from the time where there was only an occasional settler's rude cabin to be found within a radius of miles of unbroken prairie until the present day, with farms of rich land and modern buildings.

As printed in An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.