Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1910 — GEN. E. D. S. GOODYEAR DEAD [ARTICLE]

GEN. E. D. S. GOODYEAR DEAD

Veteran Succumbs After More Than ■ Year of Illness. General Ellsworth D S. Goodyear passed away at New Haven. Conn., after an illness of more than a year, aged 84 He was the oldest of the seven sons of Bella Goodyear, being a direct descendant in the sixth generation of Stephen Goodyear, first deputy governor of New Haven colony. His great grandfather was a revolution? ~y soldier and he and four others fought for the Union during the Civil war From 1868 to 1884 he was a United States custom house inspector at New Haven. Since leaving the custom house service he has passed a quiet lift At bls home in North Haven H* represented North Haven in the legis]a£ur« of 1867