Richard Clarence Goodman

Brief Life History of Richard Clarence

When Richard Clarence Goodman was born on 3 May 1904, in Huntersville Township, Wadena, Minnesota, United States, his father, Anthony Goodman, was 46 and his mother, Lillie F. Fenton, was 35. He married Mamie Elina Pulju on 22 February 1926, in Wadena, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in United States in 1949 and Douglas, Douglas, Washington, United States in 1950. He died on 10 March 1986, in Wenatchee, Chelan, Washington, United States, at the age of 81.

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Richard Clarence Goodman
1904–1986
Mamie Elina Pulju
1905–1999
Marriage: 22 February 1926
Doris Mae Goodman Noble
1929–2019

Sources (12)

  • Richard C Goodman, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Richard Clarence Goodman, "Minnesota Births and Christenings, 1840-1980"
  • Richard C Goodman, "Minnesota, County Marriages, 1860-1949"

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World Events (8)

1906 · Saving Food Labels

The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

1907 · Pike's Market

Pike’s Market is one of the oldest still working farmer’s markets in the US. It is located in Seattle’s central business district, just north of Belltown , and southwest of central waterfront and Elliott Bay. One of the attractions there is the gum wall. 

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

English: from the Middle English personal name Godeman, Old English Gōdmann, composed of the elements gōd ‘good’ or god ‘god’ + man ‘man’.

English: status name from Middle English gode ‘good’ + man ‘man’, in part from use as a term for the master of a household. In Scotland the term denoted a landowner who held his land not directly from the crown but from a feudal vassal of the king.

English: from the Middle English personal name Gudmund, Godmund (from the Old English personal name Gūthmund, composed of the elements gūth ‘battle’ + mund ‘protection’, or the Old Norse cognate Guthmundr).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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