Samuel Winfield Goddard

Brief Life History of Samuel Winfield

When Samuel Winfield Goddard was born on 18 May 1894, in Ohio, United States, his father, James Sylvester Goddard, was 25 and his mother, Ida May Smith, was 29. He died on 14 January 1902, in United States, at the age of 7.

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Family Time Line

James Sylvester Goddard
1870–1902
Ida May Smith
1865–1927
Irene Edith Goddard
1892–1973
Jennie Goodard
1892–
Samuel Winfield Goddard
1894–1902
Myrtle Ethel Goddard
1898–1987
James Howard Goddard
1901–1995

Sources (4)

  • Samuel Goddard, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
  • Samuel Winfield Goddard, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Samuel Goddard in entry for Myrtle E Goddard, "Ohio, Washington County Newspaper Obituaries, 1884-2013"

World Events (6)

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

Name Meaning

English (of Norman origin): from Godhard, a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements gōd ‘good’ or god, got ‘god’ + hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’. The name was popular in Europe during the Middle Ages as a result of the fame of Saint Gotthard, an 11th-century bishop of Hildesheim who founded a hospice on the pass from Switzerland to Italy that bears his name. This surname is also borne by Ashkenazic Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.

English: perhaps occasionally a variant of the occupational name Gothard . The two surnames may have been much confused.

French: variant of Godard , a cognate of 1 above.

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

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