GRADUATES CLASS OF 1910 249 

Holyoke Water Power Company of Holyoke, Mass., and director of the 
Collins Company of Collinsville, Conn. His father’s ancestors lived in 
England and came to this country about 1630, settling in Connecticut. 
His mother’s immediate ancestors were Quakers, living in Philadelphia, 
where she was born. Her more remote ancestors lived in England, 
coming to this country in 1640. He has two brothers: Walter Lippincott 
Goodwin, Yale ’97, and Philip Lippincott Goodwin, Yale ’07. He has two 
_scousins who are Yale graduates: Charles A. Goodwin, ’98, and F. Spencer 
Goodwin, ’03. Another cousin, William B. Goodwin, is ex-’89. 
He was prepared at private schools in New York City and at Groton 
School, Groton, Mass. In 1905 he graduated from Yale College, where 
he was a member of the French Club. 
He was married October 1, 1912, in Hartford, Conn., to Miss Dorothy 
Wendell Davis, B.A. Smith ’07, of Hartford, Conn., daughter of Frederick 
W. Davis, Yale ’77, and Mary (Taintor) Davis, and sister of Carl W. 
Davis, Yale ’o2, and Roger W. Davis, Yale 11S. 
Before entering the Forest School, Goodwin studied law for 
a year in the Yale Law School, but after traveling in Europe, 
Arizona and California, he became interested in forestry and 
decided to take a course in it. He entered the Harvard Forestry 
School, but after a year there left and entered the Yale Forest 
School. He writes: “Since leaving the Forest School I have 
been engaged in the private practice of engineering and forestry 
and carried on work in Vermont, Connecticut, New York and 
New Jersey. I had an office in New York with W. K. Wildes of 
my Class, but we were not in partnership. This private work 
I carried on until last May, when I came to Hartford and 
entered park work. I have recently been appointed field secretary 
to the Connecticut State Park Commission which was appointed 
in 1911 by the governor to make a report in 1913 to the legisla- 
ture on the sites available for state park purposes.” He has 
recently formed the firm, the James L. Goodwin Associates, 
landscape architects. 
He is an Independent in politics. He is a member of the 
Protestant Episcopal church and of the Yale Club of New York 
City, the Hartford University Club, the Hartford Golf Club, the 
Connecticut Forestry Association and the American Forestry 
Association. 
He has written: A trip to the Lupai Indian Reservation near 
the Grand Canyon, Arizona, Hartford Courant, August, 1907. 
