Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882.  Cass County.

GEORGE W. GOODELL, ice dealer, Beardstown; was born in 
Cuyahoga County, Ohio, April 29, 1823.  At the age of 
seventeen, he began boating on the Ohio Canal, running from 
Portsmouth to Cleveland, and soon became captain of a boat.  
In 1848 he became captain of a freight boar, running from 
Chicago to La Salle, Ill.; in 1851, he took command of a 
boat running from La Salle to St. Louis, Mo., and during 
the twelve years which he spent on the river, commanded 
freight, tow and passenger boats; he made one trip up the 
Missouri River. During the late war he engaged in the ice 
business, in which he had been previously interested, and 
in 1871, located Litchfield, Ills., where he lived eight 
years.  In 1875, he began cutting ice on Muscooten Bay, and 
built an ice house near the C. B. & Q. Railroad depot, from 
which he shipped ice by rail.  In 1881, he formed a 
partnership with Huse, Loomis & Co., of St. Louis, Mo., the 
firm here being known as Huse, Goodell & Co., and built an 
ice house on the Bay, having a capacity of 18,000 tons, and 
enlarged the capacity of the houses on the C. B. & Q. 
Railroad, to 12,000 tons.  Their houses are fitted up with 
all modern contrivances, and with a hoisting apparatus, 
invented by Mr. Goodell.  The firm of which Mr. Goodell is 
a member, is one of the most extensive ice companies in the 
West, and employs about 250 men in the cutting season, and 
the great portion of the shipping season, from forty to 
fifty men.

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