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GILMORE, JOSEPH A. 



GOODELL, WILLIAM. 



and attracted much attention by his genial and 

 gentle manners, his profound culture, and his 

 eloquence in the defence of Protestant and 

 Evangelical principles. He was for many years 

 a correspondent of the New York Observer. 

 He was at the time of his death in attendance 

 upon the General Assembly of the Presbyterian 

 Church of Ireland, and after attending one of 

 its protracted sessions was on his way to the 

 residence of the gentleman with whom he was 

 staying, near midnight, when he was seized 

 with apoplexy in the street, and was not found 

 till morning, and died a few minutes after he 

 was discovered. 



GILMORE, JOSEPH ATHEKTOX, a former 

 Governor of New Hampshire, born at Weston, 

 Vt., in 1811 ; died at Concord, N.H., April 17, 

 1867. His early life was spent on a farm in 

 Vermont, but at the age of fifteen he went to 

 Boston, obtained a situation in a grocery-store, 

 and after he had reached his majority, com- 

 menced business on his own account. He be- 

 came interested in railroads very early, both as 

 a builder and a manager, and through these 

 and his mining interests eventually acquired a 

 large fortune. He was elected to the New 

 Hampshire State Senate in 1858, and again in 

 1859, and the latter year was president of the 

 Senate. In 1863 he was elected Governor of 

 the State, and reflected in 1864. His admin- 

 istration was marked by ability and patriotism. 

 At the close of his second term he retired to 

 private life, and to the management of his ex- 

 tensive business. He had suffered from severe 

 illness for many months before his death. 



GOODELL, WILLIAM, D. D., an American 

 Congregationalist clergyman and missionary, 

 the translator of the Scriptures into the Armeno- 

 Turkish language, born in Templeton, Mass., 

 February 14, 1792; died in Philadelphia, Feb- 

 ruary 18, 1867. His parents were intelligent 

 and eminently godly ; but they were in very 

 straitened circumstances, and were unable to 

 aid their sons, of whom three subsequently be- 

 came clergymen, in obtaining a collegiate edu- 

 cation. Such, however, were the energy and 

 resolution of the future missionary, that at the 

 age of fifteen years, though in feeble health, he 

 went from his home, sixty miles on foot, carry- 

 ing his trunk on his back, to enter Phillips 

 Academy. The same energy and determination 

 marked his character in all the subsequent dif- 

 ficulties which he encountered and overcame in 

 his preparation for college, his collegiate career 

 at Dartmouth,. where he graduated in 1817, and 

 the theological course at Andover, which he 

 completed in 1820. Immediately after leaving 

 the seminary he was accepted as a missionary 

 by the American Board, and travelled for a 

 time as their agent for raising funds in New 

 England and in the Middle and Southwestern 

 States, visiting also the Cherokee and Choctaw 

 Missions of the Board, east of the Mississippi. 

 Everywhere he made a favorable impression on 

 the churches. He was ordained to the mission- 

 ary work at New Haven, Conn., September 12, 



1822; was married November 19, of the same 

 year, to Miss Abigail P. Davis, of Holden, 

 Mass., who survives him ; and December 9, 

 1822, sailed for Malta, where his friend Rev. 

 Daniel Temple had preceded him the year be- 

 fore. In November, 1823, in company with 

 Rev. Mr. Bird, another missionary of the 

 Board, and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Goodell ar 7 

 rived in Beirut, which thenceforward became 

 one of the missionary stations of the American 

 Board. He remained there about five years, 

 where he passed through great perils, the town 

 being plundered and devastated, his own house 

 sacked by the Bedouin Arabs, and his life 

 threatened. He removed to Constantinople in 

 1831, where he passed through other perils, his 

 house and every thing it contained being de- 

 stroyed in one of the general conflagrations, Dr. 

 Gpodell and his family escaping only with their 

 lives, the very clothing which they wore being 

 several times on fire, owing to the intense heat 

 of the flames by which they were surrounded. 

 Often during his residence at Constantinople 

 they passed in safety through the dangers of the 

 plague, at one time as many as fifteen hundred 

 dying daily around them. He found himself 

 obliged, from pestilence, persecutions, the ex- 

 tortions of landlords, war, etc., to pack up, and 

 move his residence thirty-three times in twenty- 

 nine years! The great work of his life, which 

 he began at Malta, and to which he devoted 

 the greater part of his time for fifteen years be- 

 fore its first completion for publication, was 

 the translation of the Scriptures out of the 

 original Hebrew and Greek into the Armeno- 

 Turkish language. The Old Testament was 

 completed November 6, 1841, and the New 

 Testament within the two years following. 

 Though the translation was pronounced by 

 competent authorities an excellent one, he saw 

 the necessity for its revision, and after many 

 years of additional toil completed that labor in 

 February, 1863. Having become enfeebled by 

 age and his long residence in the East, and his 

 abundant labors there, his constitution never 

 having been strong, Dr. Goodell returned, in 

 1865, to the United States, and took up his resi- 

 dence with his son William Goodell, M. D., in 

 Philadelphia. Here he occupied himself with 

 works of usefulness, and his death, though sud- 

 den and unexpected, was eminently peaceful 

 and beautiful. Dr. Goodell was a man of re- 

 markable intellectual ability; affable and cour- 

 teous in his manners, of ready tact, and abound- 

 ing in resistless pleasantry and quickness at 

 repartee, he could and did mould and influence 

 not only the conversation but the thoughts of 

 those whom he met in society into such channels 

 as would best subserve his purpose of doing good. 

 As a preacher and writer he was remarkable for 

 the freshness, brevity, and force of his expres- 

 sions, for his abundant and appropriate Scrip- 

 ture illustrations, and the touches of nature that 

 went directly to the hearts of his hearers and 

 readers. His u Reminiscences of the Mission- 

 ary's Early Life," published in the New York 



