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John Franklin Goodrich.
Private 21st Iowa Vols. (Infantry), August 28, 1862; died at Vicksburg, Miss., June 4, 1863, of disease contracted in the service.
John Franklin Goodrich was the son of Allen and Mary (Emerson) Goodrich, and was born in Mount Vernon, New Hampshire, August 13, 1826.
He was fitted for college by Mrs. Ripley of Waltham, Massachusetts.
In college he was not prominent as a scholar, nor very well known among his classmates; but the respect in which he was gent's class volunteers the testimony, that, under an outside of apparent frivolity, he cherished a sincere respect for whatever was manly and true, and had many generous impulses.
He did not complete his undergraduate course with the Class of 1848, but received his degree eleven years later, after establishing an honorable reputation as a physician.
During the intermediate period he had interested himself in a variety of pursuits, into each of which he threw himself for a time with his acc
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, chapter 36 (search)