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George Goodwin (April 23, 1786 - February 8, 1878) was an American publisher, businessman, and politician in Hartford and East Hartford, Connecticut.

Goodwin was born on April 23, 1786 in Hartford, Connecticut, as the son of George Goodwin and Mary Edwards. He graduated at Yale College in 1806 and went into the grocery business with Spencer Whiting, under the name of Whiting & Goodwin, near Ransom's Coffee House on State Street in Hartford. He afterwards continued the same business as George & Charles Goodwin until 1815. He began housekeeping in the Ledlie House, which stood where the Allyn House stood in the early 1900s. In 1815, the firm of Hudson & Goodwin was dissolved and George Goodwin & Sons succeeded to the business of bookselling, printing, and publishing, the leading interest then being the Connecticut Courant, which they retained until 1836. To give more attention to this manufacture of paper, which gradually became their leading business, Goodwin removed to East Hartford, Connecticut in 1821, where he spent an active and useful life until 1861, when the mills passed into other hands. Soon after this, his sight began to fail and in 1868, he became totally blind. He represented East Hartford three times.

Goodwin died at his home on Burnside Avenue in East Hartford on February 8, 1878.

Family[]

Goodwin married Maria Kingsbury on November 25, 1809 in Hartford, Connecticut. She died in 1851.

  • Maria Kingsbury Goodwin - m. Henry Pitkin
  • Ellen Goodwin - m. Thomas Scott Williams
  • Mary Edwards Goodwin - m. William S. Williams
  • George Henry Goodwin - m. (1) Mary Pitkin (2) Mary Skinner
  • Susan Leavitt Goodwin - m. Henry L. Goodwin
  • Andrew Kingsbury Goodwin - unmarried.
  • Elizabeth Goodwin - unmarried.
  • Harriet Talcott Goodwin - unmarried.
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