When Franklin Augustine Goodrich was born on 14 July 1849, in Saint Charles, Kane, Illinois, United States, his father, Chauncey Burr Goodrich, was 33 and his mother, Phoebe A. Dickerson, was 31. He lived in La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States in 1880. He died in 1927, in Bear Valley, Richland, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Bear Valley Cemetery, Bear Valley, Richland, Wisconsin, United States.
English: from the Middle English personal name Goderiche, Old English Gōdrīc, composed of the elements gōd ‘good’ + rīc ‘power’.
English: habitational name from Goodrich (Herefordshire), a shortened form for ‘castle Goodrich’, which takes its name from Godric Mapson, a holder of the estate recorded in the Domesday Book.
Americanized form of German Güttrich, cognate with 1 above.
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