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Chester William Goodrich

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Birth	:	14 Oct 1866 Saint Charles, Kane County, Illinois, USA
Death	:	21 Aug 1943 Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado, USA
Burial	:	Grandview Cemetery, Fort Collins, Larimer County, USA
Coordinate	:	40.5875015, -105.1121979
Plot	:	G A 44 A2
Description	:	Chester William Goodrich was born October 14, 1866 at St. Charles, Illinois. He left St. Charles with his family (mother, father, twin brother and younger brother, Bert) in a covered wagon when he was twelve years old. The family journeyed to Granite Falls, Minnesota, which was their home for about nine years. Between ages 14 to 20, he worked with his brother Charles at teamwork for a contractor building a new railroad from Granite Falls to Winnipeg, Canada. He also worked with his twin brother on a road grade between Minneapolis and St. Paul. In... Read More	Chester William Goodrich was born October 14, 1866 at St. Charles, Illinois. He left St. Charles with his family (mother, father, twin brother and younger brother, Bert) in a covered wagon when he was twelve years old. The family journeyed to Granite Falls, Minnesota, which was their home for about nine years. Between ages 14 to 20, he worked with his brother Charles at teamwork for a contractor building a new railroad from Granite Falls to Winnipeg, Canada. He also worked with his twin brother on a road grade between Minneapolis and St. Paul. In the fall of 1887, just before his 21st birthday, Chester and his family again left Granite Falls in the covered wagon. They arrived in Cody, Nebraska November 20, 1887. In the fall of 1888, Chester filed on a homestead on Conley Flats in Cherry County, Nebraska. He lived there part-time for the next six years while working for the Churn ranch, twenty-five miles southwest. This homestead he relinquished and filed on another piece of land on Bear Creek, which was about four and a half miles West of Eli, Nebraska. This property joined what is known as the Ricketts place. On May 24, 1894 he married Jennie Edgar. The first year after the marriage he farmed the John Newell place, 14 miles Southwest of Cody. He used 2 teams of horses and one of oxen to farm with. Later, living on the Bear Creek claim, he bought a few head of cattle and in the meantime had gained a few head of horses. He built a log shack, 10 x 12 feet. The furniture they had in this house he made from rough lumber. Later they added another room to the house, made of sod, 14 x 16 feet. Chester and his family lived at this place until 1902 when his wife and the five children born there, took the train from Merriman, Nebraska to Chouteau, Montana. Arriving in Chouteau, he took a stage and mail job from there to Great Falls. He drove this stage for one year, and then went to work at a general store in Chouteau. A general store in those days sold hardware, harness, grain, lumber, groceries and dry goods, everything being freighted by team from Great Falls, fifty miles away. After working in this store for three years, he quit and bought a team of horses and worked his own freight line from Montana through South Dakota to Nebraska. On this route he dealt with the Sioux Indians on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota as well as other places along the route. After an uprising on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, C.W. played an important role in settling the Indians down and getting them back into the reservation. Both Chester and son, George Lewis, spoke fluent Sioux. The Sioux wanted C.W. to become the Indian Agent there, but he still lived with his family in Chouteau. His oldest son, George Lewis took the agent position on the reservation and held it for many years. In order to stay home more, C.W. next began digging ditch for an irrigation company. He worked there until a doctor told him he would have to move to a lower altitude for the health of his youngest child, Charles Marvin. In preparation for this move, in the spring of 1907, he bought another team of horses and a saddle horse. Then, with his wife and eight children, he started back to Nebraska in a covered wagon and a 2-seated buggy that was driven by his wife Jennie. The trip took three months because Chester and the boys worked whenever they could. Arriving in Billings, Montana they stopped to rest and get medical aid for their baby, who they lost at this time. After three weeks in Billings, they moved on toward Nebraska. Arriving in Nebraska, they lived the first winter with family members. The next spring, the family moved nine miles north of Gordon, Nebraska, where Chester leased a farm for one year. The family then moved to a farm six miles West of Gordon, working for a widowed lady another year and then moved back to Cody. Chester worked in a livery barn until buying a dray line, which he ran for two and a half years. In the fall of 1912, Chester sold his dray line and took up a Kincaid homestead 32 miles South of Cody, near the Snake River. After proving up on this claim, they moved back to Cody. His wife stayed in town so their children might go to school; Chester worked at any kind of work he could get. In 1920 they moved by wagon thirty miles south of Bassett, Nebraska, near Rose, Nebraska, where they were on a small ranch in partnership raising cattle and horses. During this time Chester contracted with the Army to buy horses for the Calvary post at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. He was one of the few civilians who contracted with the Army for this. It has been said, "If it didn't have to do with horses, he wouldn't get involved with it." They stayed here until 1924. Chester and his two youngest sons, with 2 wagons and twelve head of horses moved to Colorado, with the remainder of the family traveling ahead in two cars. After getting settled, Chester, his sons Edgar, Tony, (Stewart) and Chet, and his grandson Lewis Finlayson rode horses back to the ranch and returned to LaPorte with a hundred head of horses. Arriving in Colorado, C.W. sent back to the bank for funds and they found that the bank had closed and all of their money was lost. Chester set the family up in a meadow in hard back tents, fitted with logs for easy moving, and went to work on a road construction job in the mountains at Chambers Lake, on the Wyoming side of Cameron Pass (elevation 12,729 ft.) He worked until the fall and then settled near Ft. Collins where he worked team work for the next three years building the Ideal Cement Plant. During this time, they continued living in a meadow in the hard back tents. When the cement plant was finished, Chester began shift work at the plant and was there for nine years. During this time they moved to a place east of the cement plant where he ran cattle and a few horses. He also kept a few horses at his daughter & son-in-law's farm, located on Cement Plant Road (which later became a part what is now known as Overland Trail Road.) Later, the family moved to Bellvue and lived in a stone house on the corner across from the Bellvue Store. This site later became a community building, where dances were held. The next home was two doors down the street, where they raised pigs, cattle and horses. The house is called the "long" house or the "shotgun" house because you could walk in the front door and go straight through and out the back door. The party line phone was located at the back door where the razor strop hung, in case any children got out of line. In 1937, Chester laid off at the cement plant and started receiving old age pension at about age 70. In 1940, when their son, William Edgar, built a log house on the "Bellvue Fold Road", Chester and Jennie moved in with him.

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Where is Chester William Goodrich's memorial?
Chester William Goodrich's memorial is located at: Grandview Cemetery, Fort Collins, Larimer County, USA.
When did Chester William Goodrich death?
Chester William Goodrich death on 21 Aug 1943 in Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado, USA
Where are the coordinates of the Chester William Goodrich's memorial?
Latitude: 40.5875015
Longitude: -105.1121979

Family Members:

Parent

Oscar Charles Goodrich

(1839 - 1913)

Julia Ann Powers Goodrich

(1843 - 1910)

Spouse

Jennie Mae Edgar Goodrich

(1876 - 1940)

Siblings

Charles Oren Goodrich

(1866 - 1941)

Bert Oscar Goodrich

(1872 - 1938)

Children

George Lewis “Lew” Goodrich

(1895 - 1955)

(unknow - unknow)

Jessie Leona Goodrich Morton

(1901 - 1990)

Harvey James Goodrich

(1902 - 1934)

Chester "Pappy" Harold Goodrich

(1904 - 1950)

Oscar Clifford Goodrich

(1908 - 1932)

Jennie Mae Goodrich Sober

(1911 - 1980)

Lloyd Rex Goodrich

(1913 - 1913)

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