Civil War Veterans who became Hotel Owners

Question

Hi Wikitreers,

We have a veteran of the 106th NYV Company K who was the Proprietor of Upham Hotel in California (per his obit). I’d like to add a category for this as I can not find this particular category.

He led an interesting life and his brother Edwin Alonzo Goodridge (1840 - 1916) also served in the 106th NYV Company K

1.) What is the history behind Hotel Upham ?

2.) Was Mr. Goodridge the original owner of the Hotel?

3.) Is the Hotel haunted? Any ghost stories? He died it appears in his home which was Hotel Upham! 

Many have said the Gold Rush wasn’t in the actual Gold mines of the day and age but in the Hotel owners etc. 

Thank you

Answer 1

It was apparently his second hotel.

According to Edwin Alonzo Goodridge, The Goodridge Genealogy (New York, New York; Privately Printed; 1918), p. 274, he left his home in Rochester, New York in 1899, spent a year in the Adirondacks and then settled in Pasadena, California, where he purchased the Hotel Spaulding.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Goodridge_Genealogy/9tpMAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=ira+colby+goodridge&pg=PA224&printsec=frontcover

Comments

Here is a newspaper clipping that confirms his ownership of the first hotel:

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times/140133232/

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And here is an extended biography from James Miller Guinn, A Historic and Biographic Record of Southern California (Chicago, Illinois: Chapman Publishing Company; 1907), pp. 1277-1278.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Historical_and_Biographical_Record_of_So/3BU1AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=ira+colby+goodridge&pg=PA1227&printsec=frontcover

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Thank you Roger!

Adding in the family group of 9 kids a remarkable family lots of teachers soldiers also the tragedy of the siblings one dying of measles and another of consumption.

Will update them more…

LNAB should be Goodridge not Goodrich? Interesting twist

Answer 2

https://www.sbhistorical.org/the-upham-hotel/

States it was originaaly the Lincoln House. "Mrs. Lincoln wanted a place in town, and in 1870 she bought the site upon which the Upham now stands."

Comments

Thank you for the good link and source!

Amasa Lyman Lincoln (1833 - 1897)  now has a profile as he didn’t have a Wikitree to my surprise!

He needs connections as he was a distant cousin of Abraham Lincoln 

Interesting history of this historic California Hotel

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Added Cyrus Upham (1833 - 1918) bought it in 1898 per the source and operated it until the year 1911. 

He also didn't have a profile and needs connecting.

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Cyrus Upham is connected through his grandfather.  Added his parents, two wives, and a son; census records, and his will & probate.

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Thank you Jo 

Answer 3

A side note to the Cyrus Upham story: Mrs. Cyrus Upham and Miss Julia Ester, Cal. arriving at the New Morris House in Santa Barbara in 1890. Cyrus acquired the Upham Hotel in 1898

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