Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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HOWARD F. GOODWIN, 
 
one of the most public-spirited men of Pasadena, was born in Canaan, Maine, June 
8, 1838, and lived upon a farm until he was twenty-one years of age, when he 
engaged in sorting wool. He first came to California in 1861, where he remained 
four years. Returning East, he followed farming two years at Canaan, Maine, and 
railroading two years in Wisconsin, and for the succeeding twelve years he was 
connected with the Sheboygan Manufacturing Company. In April, 1880, he came to 
Placer County, this State. The same year he made a short trip to Pasadena and 
purchased a ranch of Colonel H. H. Markham, on Orange Grove avenue. He returned 
to Gold Run and engaged in mining until January, next year, when he returned to 
Pasadena, sold his ranch on Orange Grove avenue, and purchased ten acres on Las 
Robles avenue. Since that time Mr. Goodwin has bought and sold a large amount of 
real estate, making a great deal of money. Five acres, adjoining the 
intersection of Marengo avenue and Walnut street, he subdivided as the first 
tract on that avenue attached to the city plat. He has been engaged in several 
enterprises in Pasadena; has contributed in many ways toward making it a 
beautiful city; was one of the original stockholders in the Bank of Pasadena; is 
at present a stockholder in the Pasadena Street Railway, and a director of the 
Colorado Street Railway, but is not now actively engaged in business. He devotes 
his time principally to the supervision of the improvements of his lands. He 
occupies a beautiful villa at the corner of Marengo avenue and Union street, and 
seems to lack nothing that aids in making "life worth living." In 1874 Mr. 
Goodwin was allied in matrimony to Miss Abbie A. Whittier, of Canaan, Maine. 
They have one child, a daughter.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 483
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler