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Born 1863
From An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912)
WALLACE A. GOODRICH (1876) is manager of the poultry and fur business of Max Becker, of Marshall. He was born at Lake City, Wabasha county, Minnesota, December 14, 1863, and is the son of William R. and Margaret Goodrich. The former is a native of Connecticut and the latter of New York State, and they were the parents of the following children: Charles W., who resides on the old homestead in Grandview township; Franklin H. and Louis W., who are deceased; and Wallace A., of this sketch. The mother died in 1893, and the father resides at St. Charles, Louisiana. The latter enlisted in Wisconsin, in Company I, First Cavalry, and served a little over a year in the Civil War.
Our subject accompanied his parents to Lyon county in 187G. The father homesteaded the southeast quarter of section 12, Grandview township, and there Wallace resided until 1888. He moved to Marshall that year and has made his home there since, with the exception of two winters spent in Nebraska and one year in California. In the early nineties Mr. Goodrich started a feedmill in Marshall in the building on Main Street now occupied by Finnell & Son. He conducted the mill seven years, after which he was employed by the McCormick Harvester Company as an expert and later by the International people, which occupied his time until February, 1908. He then entered the employ of Max Becker, in the produce and fur business, as manager. That firm handles the majority of the poultry business of Marshall, about fifteen cars a year besides the local shipments, and about $50,000 worth of furs was handled by the firm in 1911. Mr. Goodrich is a member of the Blue Lodge and Chapter of the Masonic order and the Modern Woodmen lodge. He holds the office of noble grand in the Odd Fellows lodge.
Our subject was married in Marshall February 7, 1910, to Lena Rask, of Russell.
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.
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