PREFACE CONTENTS CONTENTS viii 30 Letter from C. W. Penny on the origin of the Young Men's Society.. Letter from Amos T. Hall on the origin of the Young Men's Society... Letter from C. P. Holmes on the origin of the Young Men's Society.. Indian names in the county of Mackinac, William W. Johnson.. Circular and replies pertaining to the resources of Michigan. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MERCHANT H. GOODRICH Merchant Huxford Goodrich, eleventh president of the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, was born January 29, 1826, in Conway, Mass., and is a lineal descendant in the seventh generation from William Goodrich, one of the first settlers of Weathersfield, Conn. His father was Chauncey Smith Goodrich and his mother Aschsah Huxford. They removed from Conway, Mass., in September, 1827, to Lima, Washtenaw county, Michigan, where they settled on a farm, and in 1831 removed to Ann Arbor, where for a number of years they kept a hotel. Merchant H. Goodrich has therefore been a resident of this State sixty one years, and of Ann Arbor fifty seven years. After his father's death, which occurred Apr. 2, 1860, he came in possession of the homestead, his unmarried sister being his housekeeper, he also remaining unmarried. He graduated from the University of Michigan in the class of 1845, department of Literature, Science and Arts, a class of fourteen, among whom was the Hon. Lyman D. Norris, of Grand Rapids. This was the second class graduated from the university, and only one person had graduated before, being William B. Wesson, of Detroit, the sole member of the class of 1844. At this time there was no law department at the university and Mr. Goodrich, being desirous of making that his profession, studied at the Harvard Law school in 1848-9, was admitted to the bar, and has since followed the profession of his choice. When the Washtenaw County Pioneer Society was organized in 1873, he was elected its corresponding secretary, and discharged the duties of that office for several years. He was one of the promoters of the Washtenaw County Agricultural and Horticultural Society, and was one of its vice presidents in 1868. He became a member of the Michigan State Pioneer Society February 2, 1876, and at the annual meeting held on the same date, he was elected one of the committee of historians, and was annually re-elected on this committee until June 9, 1886, when he was chosen as the eleventh president of the society and presided over the annual meeting held June 1 and 2, 1887. |