42 Menioi'ial of George Bi^ozvn Goode. 



His mother, Sarah Woodruff Crane, was a descendant of Jasper Crane, 

 who came to New England during the first ten years of the first settle- 

 ment, and was one of the pioneers of Newark, New Jersey. 



Doctor Goode was thus of sturdy American parentage on both sides, 

 numbering among his ancestors the founders of the Virginia, Massachu- 

 setts, Connecticut, and New Jersey colonies. The family was singularly 

 free from foreign mixture, not lo per cent of the marriages among the 

 numerous descendants having been with persons whose ancestors came 

 to America later than 1725.^ 



He passed his early childhood in Cincinnati and his later childhood 

 and early youth in Amenia, New York, where he was prepared for col- 

 lege by private tutors. His father was a man of studious habits and 

 not devoid of an interest in science. He had assembled in his library a 

 set of the Smithsonian Reports, which young Goode read as a boy. It 

 was through these volumes that he was first attracted to science and to 

 the Smithsonian Institution, his boyish ambition being to become con- 

 nected with it and to .study under Professor Baird. 



He entered Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, in 1866, 

 and was graduated in 1870. Although scarcely more than fifteen when 

 he entered college and a little over nineteen years of age at the time of 

 his graduation, being the youngest member of the class, his work in the 

 studies of the natural history group was so satisfactory as to attract the 

 favorable notice of his teachers. The years at Middletown foreshadowed 

 the strong love for nature, the museum interest, ability in classification, 

 and even the literary talent, which were the distinguishing features of 

 all Doctor Goode's later career. 



When he went to college, his father removed to Middletown and became 

 a neighbor to Orange Judd, the pioneer of agricultviral journalism in this 

 country and closely identified with the advancement of scientific agricul- 

 ture. There sprang up between the daughter of Mr. Judd and young 

 Goode a friendship which ripened into love and resulted in their 

 marriage, of which I speak here because Doctor Goode himself felt that 

 the friendship with Mr. Judd, thus brought about through his daughter, 

 had the largest share in determining his future career. The two young 

 people had similar tastes in natural history and outdoor life. As early 

 as 1869 Doctor Goode commenced to record in the College Argus and 

 the College Review his outdoor rambles. He was at this time a 3'oung 

 man of stout frame and vigorous health, engaging in all of the athletic 

 sports known to college students of that day. 



In 1 870 he entered Harvard University as a post-graduate student under 

 Professor Louis Agassiz, whose genial influence he glowingly describes 

 in his youthful letters. 



Mr. Judd had presented to Wesleyan University a building known as 

 the Orange Judd Hall of Natural Science. This building was in progress 



' Virginia Cotisins, p. xiv. 



