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Type of entity
Person
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Goodman, E. (Edwin), 1833-1908
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Description area
Dates of existence
1833-1908
History
Edwin Goodman was born on April 22, 1833, in Grimsby, Ontario.
A graduate of the University of Toronto, he moved to St. Catharines, Ontario where he was a physician (coroner) for 30 years and chairman of the St. Catharines Board of Health. He aided in the establishment of the Royal Arch and Templar Masonry. He was a surgeon in the 19th regiment during the Fenian Raids (1866, 1870-1871). He also served as a mayor of St. Catharines (1891-1892).
In 1857, he married Caroline Elizabeth Cross (1836–1890) and in 1891, he remarried Jessie Georgina McCallum (1838–1926). He died on April 9, 1908, in St. Catharines, Lincoln County, Ontario.