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

JOHN H. GOODELL, farmer and lumber merchant; P.O. 
Chandlerville; was born in Thompson, Windham County, Conn., 
April 15, 1832, to Horace and Lucy P. (Rickard) Goodell. 
He, born in Connecticut in 1802, came to Illinois in the 
spring of 1837, and settled in Cass County, he is a farmer, 
and now in the eightieth year of his age; his father was a 
captain in the Revolutionary War. The mother of our subject 
was born in Windham County, Conn., in 1808, and died in 
1868. She had seven children, of whom John H. was the 
second. At the age of eighteen he left his home and 
apprenticed himself at the carpenter and joiner trade, and 
followed that for about twelve years. In 1862 he enlisted 
in the army, and served three years in the 114th Illinois 
Regiment, Company A, under command of Capt. Johnson. He was 
in the battle of Vicksburg. When Price made his march 
through Missouri, he, in his regiment, marched from Duval's 
Bluff through to Missouri, and returned to Nashville. In 
1865, after his return home, he resumed his trade, and 
worked at it for about two years in Jacksonville. In 1866 
he commenced farming in Cass County. In 1876 he started a 
large lumber business at Chandlerville. Mr. Goodell is the 
owner of about 230 aces of land, in Cass County. In 1851 he 
married Miss Helen E. Cotton, a native of Franklin County, 
New York; born in March, 1832, and died in 1863. In 1865, 
Dec. 27, he married Miss Harriet A. Sewall, a native of 
Cass County; born April 14, 1838. She is the mother of 
seven children, six of whom are living: Lucy, Lydia, 
William, John, Andrew, Susan; all at home. Mr. Goodell is 
now holding his second term as Justice of the Peace. Self 
and wife are members of the Congregational Church. 
Politically, he is a Democrat.

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