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Goodwin Family Photograph Collection, 1840-1988
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Scope and Content:

The Goodwin Family Photo Colleciton consists of 52 portraits of this prominent Cache Valley family. Included in the collection are samples of historic photographic processes and formats such as albumen prints, cartes-de-visite, cabinet cards, and tintypes. A genealogical chart is included in Box 2. A history of the Goodwin family written by Walter O. Goodwin, entitled A History of an English/American Goodwin Family, 1600-1900 (929.2 G638-G) is also available in the Special Collections department.

Biographical Note:

James Goodwin and his family, as new converts to the Mormon church, emigrated from England to America in 1850. They lived in New Orleans and St. Louis before reaching Utah in 1859. Goodwin's five sons (William, Frederick, Charles Isaac, George, and Henry James) eventually settled in the Cache Valley area and three of the five brothers married daughters of LDS apostle Ezra T. Benson. The brothers, and William in particular, were entrepeneurs in the valley, opening a dry-good store and a mercantile shop called Goodwin Brothers store and establishing a family ranch. By 1874, due to disagreements over business practices with local Church leaders, each of the brothers had left the LDS Church and three of them joined the local Episcopal Church. By 1890, however, only two of the brothers, William and Charles Isaac, remained in Cache Valley. William was named as the Probate Court Judge of Cache County in 1888; serving until shortly before his death in 1894. He also chose the present location of the Agricultural College of Utah (now Utah State University) and Charles Issac's wife Sarah Godwin Brown Goodwin served as the institution's first librarian.

Register completed by Peter F. Schmid, January 1998, and revised by Liz Woolcott and Jennifer Feik, June 2003.

Inventory:

Box 1.

1:01. Cleveland, Belle. Carte-de-visite portrait, ca. 1870's, by C.A. Winsor (Galesburg, Ill.).
1:02. Cleveland, Lydia J. Van Pelt (1842-ca. 1900). Carte-de-visite portrait, 1870, by Z.P. McMillen (Galesburg, Ill.).
1:03. Goodwin, Lettie Cleveland (1860 - 1896). Carte-de-visite portrait, by Hamill's Photograph Rooms (Monmouth, Ill.), late 1860s.
1:04. Goodwin, Lettie Cleveland (1860 - 1896). Tintype portrait, with a friend, ca. 1880.
1:05. Goodwin, Lettie Cleveland (1860 - 1896). Tintype portrait, ca. 1880.
1:06. Hogue, Elisha. Carte-de-visite copy print portrait, husband of Lydia Van Pelt, ca. 1850s. by T. Harrison (Galesburg, Ill.).
1:07. Hogue, Lydia (Van Pelt). Carte-de-visite, probably a copy print, ca. 1840s, by T. Harrison (Galesburg, Ill.).
1:08. Logan, James Allen (1833 - ?). Carte-de-visite portrait, with his dog, 1869.

Box 2.

2:01-02. Cleveland, Belle. Cabinet portraits, ca. 1880s, by T. Harrison (Galesburg, Ill.).
2:03. Goodwin, Charles Frederick. Cabinet portrait, 1886, by Cardon Art Gallery (Logan, UT.).
2:04. Goodwin, Lettie Cleveland (1860 - 1896). Cabinet portraits with classmates, ca. 1880, by C.A. Winsor (Galesburg, Ill.).
2:05. Goodwin, Lettie Cleveland (1860 - 1896). Cabinet portrait, with classmates, ca. 1880, by T. Harrison (Galesburg, Ill.).
2:06. Goodwin, Lettie Cleveland (1860-1896). Cropped and enlarged detail of 02:05, c. 1880.
2:07. Goodwin, Lettie Cleveland (1860 - 1896). Cabinet portrait, early 1880s.
2:08. Goodwin, William (1836 - 1894). Cabinet portrait, early 1880s, by Fox & Symons (SLC, UT). Five duplicate copies in 02:14-A.
2:09. Goodwin, William Charles (1886 - 1960). Portrait, ca. 1910.
2:09-A. Goodwin, William Charles (1886-1960)) and Edwin Goodwin (1894-1955). Taken in Logan, Utah about 1902.
2:10. Goodwin, William James (1857 - 1916). Cabinet portrait, early 1880s, by T.B. Cardon (Logan, UT).
2:11. Goodwin, William James (1857 - 1916). Cabinet portrait, early 1880s, by Schaub (Logan, UT).
2:12. Logan, Laurinda (1803 - 1896). Cabinet portrait, ca. 1893.
2:13. Talmage, Ida Cleveland. Cabinet portrait, ca. 1880, by T. Harrison (Galesberg, Ill.). T. Harrison (Galesberg, Ill.).
2:14. Van Pelt, Mary (1804 - 1865). Cabinet portrait, ca. 1860, by C.A. Winsor (Galesburg, Ill.).
2:14-A. Goodwin, William (1836 - 1894). Probate judge. Five duplicate copies of cabinet card 02:08.
2:15. Goodwin, William C. (1886 - 1960). Portrait with wife Delia A. (Hansen), ca. 1910.
2:16. Goodwin, William C. (1886 - 1960). Portrait with his wife Delia A. (Hansesn), ca. 1955.
2:17. Goodwin, William C. (1886 - 1960). Portrait as a child, ca. 1889.
2:18. Goodwin, William C. (1886 - 1960). Portrait as a child, with Edwin Cleveland, ca. 1891.
2:19. Goodwin, Edwin Cleveland Sr., Edwin W. Goodwin Jr., Eva (Wright) Goodwin, and Donna (Goodwin) Caley, ca. 1940s.
2:20. Goodwin, William J. (1857 - 1917). Portrait, ca. 1908.
2:21. Goodwin, William C. (1886 - 1960). Wedding photo with Creola McNabb, Seattle, Washington, 1958.
2:22. Goodwin, William C. (1886 - 1960). Portrait at Old Mint Bldg. U.S. Civil Service Commission, Investigation Division, 1944.
2:24. Goodwin, William C. (1886 - 1960). Portrait, 1940, by Gates Studio (San Francisco).
2:25-26. Goodwin, Isabella (Benson). Portraits, ca. early 1900s.
2:27. Goodwin, Delia A. (Hansen), (1883 - 1957). Portrait, ca. 1945.
2:28. Unidentified man standing next to a car, ca. 1920.
2:29. Knoxville, Illinois-Churches-1988. Episcopal (?) church in Knoxville, 1988.
2:30. Gravestone of John H. Campbell (1821 - 1889), Laurinda E. Campbell (1831-1887), and Willard N. Campbell (1874 - 1899), 1988.
2:31. Gravestone of Sarah E. Gardner(1854 - 1919), photo taken in 1988.
2:32. Logan home of Williamm Goodwin, Probate Judge, photo taken in 1988.
2:33. Home of Charles and Sarah Godwin Brown Goodwin, Logan, photo taken in 1988.
2:34. "Somebody's Attic" store, formerly "Logan Knitting Works" and "Goodwin Bros. Store"; 39 W. 100 No., Logan, photo taken in 1988.
2:35 - 44. Goodwin family gravestones, Logan City Cemetery.
2:35. Gravestone of Annette Goodwin, (1894 - 1960).
2:36. Graveston of Charles F. Goodwin, (1859 - 1925).
2:37. Gravestone of Eulalia Earl Goodwin, (1859 - 1941).
2:38. Gravestone of Frederick Goodwin, who lived only 8 hours, and Mary Goodwin, aged 3 months, both children of Frederick & Melina (Benson) Goodwin; and George A Goodwin, aged 9 days, and Perry Goodwin, aged 6 months, children of James and Alice (Benson) Goodwin.
2:39 - 40. Gravestones of George (1842 - 1915) and James Goodwin (1895-1895).
2:42. Gravestone of James (1814 - 1961) and Sarah Goodwin (1800-1876).
2:43. Gravestone of Clarence (1895 - 1980) and Jane E. Goodwin (1895-1974).
2:43. Goodwin, Lettie Cleveland (1860 - 1896)-Grave. Gravestone.
2:44. Gravestone of Sarah Goodwin (1838 - 1865) first wife of William Goodwin and Ezra T. Goodwin (1868 - 1879), son of William and Isabella (Benson) Goodwin.

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