The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . as ever been soharassed, so trampled upon, so plundered by piratesas he—their spoliations upoi; him having unquestion-ably amounted to millions of dollars. In six yearsfrom the tim
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . as ever been soharassed, so trampled upon, so plundered by piratesas he—their spoliations upoi; him having unquestion-ably amounted to millions of dollars. In six yearsfrom the time Mr. Goodyear discovered the process ofcuring nibber, the companies which held the rightof manufacturing shoes alone under his patent paidDaniel Webster a fee of $25,000 for his triumphantargument in the trial which established Mr. Good-years title to the honor and emoluments of his in-vention. Before his death he saw vulcanized rubberapplied to nearly 500 different uses, and 60,000 peo-ple engaged in making the articles into which it hadbeen fashioned. Mr. Goodyear received medals atLondon in 1851, in Paris in 1855; also the cross ofthe legion of honor. Trials of an Inventor, byB. K. Pierce, was published in New York in 1866,and a further notice of his life and work may befound in James Partons Famous Americans ofRecent Times (Boston, 1867). He died in NewYork city July 1, 1860. OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 87. c^^i^*gS%i £^^^^^ FELDSTEIN, Theodore, was born in Ger-many in 1836, and came to the United States in1856. He worked on a farm in Rockland county,N. Y., in 1856-57, and on tlie N. Y. Humorist,a German weekly paper, in 1858-59, and as a hatterin Danbury, Conn., to the spring of 1861. He re-sponded to President Lin-colns first call for troops tosuppress the rebellion in1861. He enlisted as a, pri-vate in the 1st Connecticutvolunteers on the 19th ofApril, 1861, and was mus-tered out on the 31st ofJuly, 1861. He re-enlistedin company G, 68th NewYork volunteers, Aug. 14,1861,
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