26 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN 



Goessmann gave up his position at the Institute with 

 evident regret, but it was becoming more and more 

 difficult to discharge properly the duties of both posi- 

 tions, and he could hardly afford to relinquish Syracuse 

 for Troy. In a letter to Professor Drowne, he writes : 



'The necessity to look into my present condition 

 more than before, for an advantageous and sure in- 

 come, has mainly prompted me to decide finally, in 

 view of many circumstances, for Syracuse. Just at the 

 day when I received by a communication from W. 

 Gurley, Esq., the information of my appointment as 

 Professor, etc., I got a very advantageous offer from 

 Boston. My present employers, hi view of these offers, 

 advanced my salary so as to make my present engage- 

 ment more acceptable. I have here a well-supplied 

 laboratory at my entire disposal, being permitted to 

 attend to any kind of investigation I wish to, par- 

 ticularly during the winter season.' 



Dr. Goessmann now found himself in a position to 

 marry. On 22 October 1862, he married Mary Anna 

 Clara, daughter of Edward Kinny of Syracuse. Mr. 

 Kinny was a founder of the Church of St. John the 

 Evangelist, and a charter member of the Society of 

 St. Vincent de Paul. Mrs. Goessmann was educated 

 in the private schools of Syracuse and at the Academy 

 of Mount Saint Vincent-on-Hudson, where her kins- 

 woman, Mother Angela Hughes, sister of the Arch- 

 bishop, was then in charge. 1 



1 Mrs. Goessmann died at Amherst, 13 October 1911. Their surviving 

 children are Miss Helena T. and Miss Mary F. Goessmann of Amherst, 

 Louis E. and Charles I. Goessmann of New York, and Mrs. Agnes R. Spratt 

 of Brooklyn. A son, Henry Edward Victor, died 27 April 1882, during his 

 junior year at the Agricultural College. 



