“ALONZO GOODENOUGH. After four years of eventful and severe service in the war of the rebellion Mr. Goodenough moved west from his native home in New England and found in Berrien county the residence which has continued in contentment and prosperity for the subsequent forty years. Born at Guilford, Windom county, Vermont, March 20, I84I, spending the first fourteen years on a farm and then learning the blacksmith trade and following it until twenty years old, on May 4, I86I, he enlisted for service in the Civil war as a member of Company A, Second Vermont Infantry, under Colonel Walbridge. From the first Bull Run disaster to the final achievement at Appomattox he was in thirty-eight battles, being a member of the Army of the Potomac, Sixth Army Corps under Gen. Sedgwick. His term of service having expired, he re-enlisted in the same command in 1864. He was wounded in the battle at Fredericksburg and at Cedar Creek, spending two months in the hospital the first time and four the second time, refusing to take his discharge on account of the wounds. He became an orderly sergeant, and his long and faithful service is a treasure of honor not for himself alone but for his whole family. He remained only a brief time in Vermont and in the fall of I865 came to Berrien county, and has lived on his farm in Galien township ever since. His one hundred and twenty-nine acres are divided into three farms, lying in sections I7 and 8, and Mr. Goodenough cleared practically all this land and placed it under cultivation and up to date improvements. Grain, stock, dairy and fruit raising are the features of his farming, and he has also followed the trade of mason to some extent. Politically he has been a Republican all his life. He affiliates with the Masonic lodge No. 239 at Three Oaks, and is a member and for two years served as commander of George E. Curtis Post No. 208, G. A. R. at Galien. The Goodenoughs are of English descent, the family having been founded in America during colonial days. Mr. Goodenough's father, Gaius R., and mother Eunice (Worden), were natives of and lived in Vermont all their lives. The father was a blacksmith by trade, and served as a lieutenant in the state militia. He was a leader in Methodist church work, and a member of the old Whig party until it became the Republican organization. His four children were: Mary Melvina Haynes; Arthur; Francis, who was a soldier in the Twentieth Indiana Infantry, Company E, and was crippled for life at Gettysburg; and Alonzo. By a second marriage the father had two children. March 17, I866 Mr. Alonzo Goodenough married Miss Margaret Heckenthorn, who was born in Stark county, Ohio, April 30, 1845, a daughter of Daniel and Mary Heckenthorn, natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Germany. The nine children born of their union are named as follows: Henry Alonzo, of Galien township; Cassie Maria, with her parents; Charles E., of Galien; Jesse, a school teacher of Benton Harbor; Burton, of Three Oaks; Mary Minnie, at home; Christopher, of Three Oaks; Ralph, at home; Hazel Grace, at home.”