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Letter, 16 March 1881
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Edwin Goodman was born on April 22, 1833, in Grimsby, Ontario.
A graduate of the University of Toronto, he moved to St. Catharines, Ontario where he was a physician (coroner) for 30 years and chairman of the St. Catharines Board of Health. He aided in the establishment of the Royal Arch and Templar Masonry. He was a surgeon in the 19th regiment during the Fenian Raids (1866, 1870-1871). He also served as a mayor of St. Catharines (1891-1892).
In 1857, he married Caroline Elizabeth Cross (1836–1890) and in 1891, he remarried Jessie Georgina McCallum (1838–1926). He died on April 9, 1908, in St. Catharines, Lincoln County, Ontario.
Letter from E. Goodman to John William Dawson, written from St. Catharines.