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JOHN
WALLINGFORD GOODWIN
Was born in South Berwick,
Maine, on April 17, 1825. In Mobile, Alabama, in 1863, the Rector of
Christ Church officiating, he married Georgia Smith, of Mobile. Their
children are three daughters, Virginia, Georgia, and Ell? Elizabeth, and
one son: Sidney Wallingford. Mr. Goodwin entered the Confederate States
Army as first sergeant of the Mobile Rifles, which became Company K, 3rd
Alabama regiment. With this he was in active service, under Gens. Jones M.
Withers, Braxton Bragg, and Joseph E. Johnston, until transferred to the
Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, under Col. R. L. Owen. From that time to
the close of the war he served the Confederate States government as
superintendent of this road. He remained with the same road under General
Mahone, until 1871: was then in Texas on railroad work until 1S83. then in
Tennessee on the F., T. & Va. R. R., until in 1887 he returned to
Virginia, on the N. & W. R. R. He is now serving as chief civil
engineer on the Lynchburg & Durham R. R.
Source:
Virginia and Virginians: History of Volume 2; by Robert Alonzo
Brock, Virgil Anson Lewis; publ. 1888; transcribed by Andrea Pack
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