California Biographies Mendocino and Lake Counties, California Transcribed by Peggy Hooper This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm Source: History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California With Biographical Sketches History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry Illustrated, Complete In One Volume Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914 PROF. ROY GOOD. � Educational work is of leading importance to all the citizens in every community. Those who enter the profession must neces- sarily possess qualities of an high order, for to their hands and to their intelli- gence is committed the task of preparing the young for the responsibilities of life. The principal of the grammar school of Willits is a young man standing at the threshold of his career as instructor, yet already shown to be the pos- sessor of the difficult qualifications called for in his chosen work. Clear insight into character, phenomenal energy and a capacity for this important work admirably adapt him for the profession, while a dispassionate attitude renders him successful as a disciplinarian. Outside of the schoolroom he is known to be a young man of pleasing personality and broad information, a cultured con- versationalist and a keen student of life and of human nature. Representing the third generation of the family in California, Professor Good may truly be termed of pioneer extraction. His father, Bennett, was born near Sutter's Fort, Sacramento county, in 1854, and his earliest recollec- tions were those of the gold fields, with their throngs of miners from every part of the world. While yet very young he tried his luck at mining as his father had done before him, but in neither instance was there any encourage- ment in results. Later he turned his attention to stock-raising and became a cattleman in Humboldt county, whence he came to Mendocino county to take up general farming. Upon retiring from agricultural cares he established a home in Willits and there he still resides, together with his wife, who was Lillian Emery, a native of Holly, Mich. Their family comprised four sons 2nd three daughters, and the third in order of birth, Roy, was born at Willits December 16, 1888, received a high-school education and is one of the native- born sons of whom the community is justly proud. After having taught for a number of years in the valley, in 1912 he was elected principal of the Willits grammar school, and has since filled the office with efficiency, making good in his chosen work of educator. With a sound mind, a sound body and a calm temperament, he discharges the duties of each day impartially and with judicial tact. While giving himself closely to educational work he has found leisure for the fraternities and is actively associated with Willits Lodge No. 256, I. O. O. F., also with the Rebekahs at Willits.