. Genealogy of the Goodyear family . went to Florida to raise fruitsfor the northern market. Here in 1841, they all, including the wife and child ofAmasa, Jr., died of yellow fever. I. Charles, b. Dec. 29, 1800; m. first, Clarissa Beecheb; second, FannyWard Henry Bateiian, m. Jerusha Murphy. LTI. Robert, b. 1803; m. Jennette Bradley IV. Harriet, b. July 9, 1805; m. Dec. , first, Josiah, son of Beach andAnna (Hard) Tomlinson, b. Feb. 24,1804: d. Feb. 20,1851; m. second, William Forest, b. Sept. 21, 179G: d. June 10. 1879. She died Aug. 27, 1884, s. p., inNew Haven, where the


. Genealogy of the Goodyear family . went to Florida to raise fruitsfor the northern market. Here in 1841, they all, including the wife and child ofAmasa, Jr., died of yellow fever. I. Charles, b. Dec. 29, 1800; m. first, Clarissa Beecheb; second, FannyWard Henry Bateiian, m. Jerusha Murphy. LTI. Robert, b. 1803; m. Jennette Bradley IV. Harriet, b. July 9, 1805; m. Dec. , first, Josiah, son of Beach andAnna (Hard) Tomlinson, b. Feb. 24,1804: d. Feb. 20,1851; m. second, William Forest, b. Sept. 21, 179G: d. June 10. 1879. She died Aug. 27, 1884, s. p., inNew Haven, where they had resided in an elegant and hospitable home. Refer-ence to Mr. De Foresfs generosity is found in the life of the Nelson, b. 1811; d. July 7, 1841, unm. VI. Amasa, b. 1813; m. Melinda Hine, who d. Aug. 7, 1841, aged 24 years, atIndian Keys, Fla. He d. at Key West, Fla., July 1, 1841. Their daughter,Harriet, d. Aug. 15, 1841, aged three years; all three deaths from yellow fever. 4 0 w *v { ~~~rf 11 ?-^ ^J \ I (\ 1 V. CHARLES GOODYEAR.(66481.) BRANCH OF THEOFHILUS. 105 GG4S1. CHAELES GOODYEAE, b. Dec. 29. 1800. The greatest of benefactors, not only to their own country but to the -world,not only for the present but for all time, are those great and noble minds whodevote their Lives, in sorrow, pain and unwearying toil to wresting from Nature,with infinite labor, some material, some secret that alleviates the sufferingsand discomforts of their race, advances its civilization and makes humanlife easier of being borne. Such a man was Charles Goodyear, the greatinventor. Ear above the ephemeral fame or glory of those who conquer nationsfor ambition or national aggrandizement, of those whose accumulative facultyleads them to heap up riches to fabulous amount; far greater than the statesman,politician or soldier are these benefactors of their kind. Who can read the life of Charles Goodyear unmoved ? Who can read itwithout loving the modest, suffering genius, the devout,


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