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CYRUS B. GOODWIN, wholesale grocer, was born in Jefferson county, N. Y., April 1, 1832. His father, Aaron Goodwin, was a native of Vermont. His mother, Elizabeth (Thompson) Goodwin, was a native of Massachusetts. Subject grew to manhood in the Empire State and was educated at Lowville, Watertown, and Canton seminaries, New York, and the Bartlett Commercial College, Cincinnati, Ohio. He completed his course at the latter institution in the spring of 1854, then went to southern Missouri and for three years engaged in teaching school. After this he traveled for a time, visiting different parts of Kansas and other points west. He returned to Missouri, locating at St. Charles, where he engaged in teaching until Nov. 1857, then returned to southern Missouri and continued in the same business for several months. In the spring of 1858 he went to New Orleans, La., and engaged as clerk in a wholesale mercantile house until the breaking out of the war. He then returned to Indiana and enlisted in company E, Seventh Indiana Infantry Volunteers and served three months, then re-enlisted in Company A, same regiment, Col. Dumond commanding, and served until the close of the war. He participated in the battles of Philippi, Green River, Murfreesborough, Chickamaugua, Lookout Mountain, and numerous others of considerable importance. At the re-organization of his regiment he was appointed sergeant-major, and in the summer of 1862 was promoted to adjutant Sixty-eighth Regiment. He was mustered out at Indianapolis, Ind., in July, 1865, and proceeded to Aurora, same state, where he engaged in the grocery business and farming for about one year. He then came to Missouri, locating in Newton county, where he engaged in farming four years, and in Feb., 1872, came to Joplin. Shortly after he engaged in the retail grocery business in this city, continuing in that line until March 1, 1881. Previous to that date he had been doing a considerable jobbing business in connection with his retail trade; since, however, he has done exclusively a wholesale business. Mr. Goodwin was married in Aurora, Ind., July 31, 1862, to Miss Josephine, daughter of Henry and Mary (Heustis) Worley, of Aurora. Mrs. Goodwin was born in Dearborn county, Ind., Feb. 10, 1840. From this union there have been seven children; Edward King, born Aug. 21, 1863; Caroline Josephine, born May 21, 1866; Fannie, born Dec. 28, 1868, died July 4, 1870: Rosa Bonheur, born Nov. 8, 1870, died April 15, 1872; Birdie, born March 12, 1872, now deceased; Tie, born Aug. 8, 1875, and Flossy, born Sept. 8, 1880. Mrs. Goodwin is a member of the Baptist Church. He carries a full stock of all goods usually found in a first-class wholesale grocery establishment. Subject is a man of extraordinary business qualifications, and judging from his energy and enterprise we have no hesitancy in predicting for him soon a very complimentary wholesale trade.