Papers of the William Goodell family. Series II, Goodell Family papers, Box 13, 1-11, personal-biographical.

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William Goodell, a native of New York, was a prominent 19th century abolitionist and temperance reformer. He either edited or published such reform-minded publications as the Investigator and General Intelligencer , Friend of Man , Christian Investigator and Principa . Although never organised, in 1842 he founded a church in Honeoye, New York, based on the principles of emancipation, prohibition and church reform. Goodell was among those who organised the National Prohibition Party in 1869. In 1870 he and his wife Clarissa Cady Goodell removed to Janesville, Wisconsin, home of their two daughters, where he remained until his death. Maria Goodell Frost, eldest daughter of William and Clarissa Goodell, was the mother of Berea College s third president William G. Frost. Like her father, Maria was an advocate of both abolitionist and temperance reform. She was also active in the women s suffrage movement. Lavinia Goodell, the younger daughter of William and Clarissa Goodell, became in 1874, the first woman lawyer admitted to the Wisconsin bar.

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October 24, 2023