Alpheus W. Goodridge.—He of whom we now speak was born Feb. 2, 1832, in Windsor county, Vt., and is the son of Jason and Caroline (Willard) Goodridge, who removed with their son to York State in '36, and in '55 came to Fulton county and settled in Ellisville tp., where they still live. His father was born in Westminster, N. Y., June 26, 1801; practiced medicine 30 years in Vermont. The powder-horn and gun that his great-grandfather took from a dead British soldier at the battle of Benington, are still in the Goodridge family. Mr. G. has been Road Commissioner 12 years, Town Clerk and is Secretary of the I. O. O. F. of Ellisville. He was married Dec. 31, '56, to Sophia Torrey, by whom he had 4 children. He was left a widower, and he was again married, March 9, '71, to Margaret Freer, daughter of Abraham Freer, who is living with his son-in-law, at the age of 77 years. Mr. G. has 3 children by his second wife. He was formerly a distiller, but is now engaged in farming. Is a member of the Ellisville Cornet Band. P. O., Ellisville. (page 618, Ellisville Township section, submitted by Danni Hopkins)

Alpheus Willard Goodridge (Jason, Alpheus, Benjamin, Benjanmin Samuel, Benjamin, William) was born in Hartland, Vt., February 26, 1832. Removing with his family to Ellisville, 111., in 1846, he settled in Lorimor. Iowa, in 1886, where he died March 27, 1917.

He married, first, in Rushville, N. Y.. December 31, 1856, Sophia Torrey, born in Rushville, February 16, 1831,
daughter of Hiram and J.(Slayton) Torrey. She died in Ellisville April 23, 1866; and he married, second, in Ellisville. March 9, 1870. Margaret Freer, born in Butler, Pa., October 10, 1840. daughter of Abram and ?? Freer; she died in Lorimor July 16, 1912.

Children, all born in Ellisville.