Edwin Weyburn Goodwin (1800 - 1845)

Born Oct 1800 in Ovid, Onondaga, New York, United States

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Died 13 Sep 1845 at age 44 in Ithaca, Tompkins, New York, United States

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Edwin Weyburn Goodwin was born October 1800, in Ovid, New York, USA. He was the son of Richard Goodwin, (grandson of William, great grandson of Abraham).

He married, first, Almira Ives, born January 1, 1801, in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, daughter of Josiah and Lucy (Williams) Ives, and who died about 1837.

He married, second, May 1839, at South Lansing, N. Y., by Rev. Dana Fox, to Almira LaBarre, born October 29, 1817, in South Lansing, N. Y., daughter of Ephraim and Clarissa (Ives) LaBarre.

Children by first wife, Almira Ives:

1. Charles Goodwin, born, died aged fourteen years.
2. Mary Elizabeth Goodwin, born February 27, 1827, married Peleg Chesebrough.
3. Emily Almira Goodwin, born October 17, 1828, married Wheeler Saxton.
4. Helen Louise Goodwin, born May 1831, married Jacob Brown.
5. Seward Irving Goodwin, born May 13, 1835, married Emily Knettles.

Children by second wife, Almira LaBarre:

1. Richard LaBarre Goodwin, born March 26, 1840, married Belle Norton.
2. Clara Isabel Goodwin, born September 17, 1842, died aged twenty-one, unmarried.
3. Ida Carolina Goodwin, born February 19, 1844, married Earner Egbert.

By occupation, Edwin was an artist and portrait painter, in politics an Abolitionist, and in religion a Methodist. He resided in Dryden, Ludlowville and Auburn, N. Y., and after his second marriage, in Albany.

He was largely self-educated, and on reaching manhood was selected from year-to-year as school commissioner, until he removed from his native town. From the first, no candidate was nominated against him.

For a short time, he was engaged in a merchandise undertaking, such as is described as the village store. At the age of twenty-nine, having shown decided talent, he took up seriously as a profession the art of painting. Studying later with New York artists of note, he became one of the very first painters of his time. His miniatures were and are marvels of beauty in design and finish. Competing on one occasion with Inman and Harding on a full-length portrait, his portrait of William H. Seward was accepted by the city of Albany, and it now hangs in the capitol.

President Martin Van Buren, William H. Seward, Dewitt Clinton, James G. Birney, candidate of the Abolitionists, Gerrit Smith, and many men of prominence, were painted by him and were his warm personal friends. There are now in possession of his son, Richard LaBarre Goodwin, letters which show the warm regard in which he was held by them.

Perhaps it was 1843 or 1844 that he assumed ownership and became editor of the anti-slavery Albany paper, "The Tocsin of Liberty." He lectured on Emancipation in different parts of the state of New York. His home was one of the underground railroad depots for the fugitives. He delivered a lecture called "Don't Bring it into the Church," referring to emancipation, for which he was disciplined by his church, the Methodist Episcopal of Auburn, N. Y. (1837).

He delivered the first total abstinence temperance lecture in Central New York at Ludlowville, hearing which the famous Benjamin Joy was so moved that he destroyed his still and became best known of all temperance workers and speakers in that part of the State.

Edwin's Christian, manly character continued to be everywhere remarked upon by all who knew him through the years that have elapsed since his death in 1845. Overwork in the cause of the church, emancipation, temperance and his art wore out his life at the age of forty-five.

Edwin passed away in 1845 and was laid to rest in the Asbury Cemetery, Lansing, Tompkins County, New York, USA

Edwin was mentioned on a memorial in Asbury Cemetery, Lansing, Tompkins County, New York, United States with a death date of 13 September 1845.^[1]

Edwin's Memorial Page^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
   Find A Grave: Memorial #227987169 (accessed 19 January 2024)
   Memorial page for Edwin W. Goodwin (1800-13 Sep 1845), citing Asbury Cemetery, Lansing, Tompkins County, New York, USA; Maintained by DPoole (contributor 48295768).
2. ↑ Memorial Page: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/227987169/edwin-w-goodwin: accessed 19 January 2024), memorial page for Edwin W. Goodwin (1800–13 Sep 1845), Find a Grave Memorial ID 227987169, citing Asbury Cemetery, Lansing, Tompkins County, New York, USA; Maintained by DPoole (contributor 48295768).

• William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Supplement, Vol. VIII, No. 2, Pgs. 64-65, October 1899, Editor: Lyon G. Tyler, M. A., L L., D., President of William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia. "The Goodwin Families in America."

• Wikidata: Item Q101229016, en:Wikipedia

• William & Mary College Quarterly Vol VIII No 2 pg 64 (Oct 1899)

• https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/edwin-weyburn-and-richard-la-barre-goodwin-papers-8300

• Almira (LaBarre) Goodwin resides (1897) in Ithaca, New York.