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EDWARD GOODFELLOW. 
primary education in a private school of which his father 
was the principal, and subsequently attended the school for 
classics under Joseph Engles, and the University of Penn¬ 
sylvania, graduating from the latter institution in June, 1848. 
He had taken a great interest in Greek during his college 
course and won at least one prize for that tongue, and was 
honored at his graduation by the appointment to deliver the 
Greek salutatory. His decided inclination to literature led 
him to a warm friendship with Prof. Henry Reed, the pro¬ 
fessor of English literature at the university, which ended 
only with the Professor’s death. 
It was through Professor Reed’s influence that Mr. Good- 
fellow was appointed on the Coast Survey, in August, 1848, 
the Professor having been a warm friend of Alexander Dallas 
Bache, then the Superintendent of the Survey. His first 
appointment appears to have been a clerkship, but in De¬ 
cember, 1849, we find him as aid in the Superintendent’s 
party on the measurement of the Edisto base in South Caro¬ 
lina. He was shortly afterward transferred to astronomical 
work, and during the continuance of his service on the Coast 
Survey was, with few interruptions, engaged upon this class 
of work until his assignment to duty at Washington as execu¬ 
tive officer to the assistant in charge of the office, April 1,1873. 
In 1861, at the outbreak of the Civil War, Mr. Goodfellow 
served for a year as assistant in charge of the office, being 
relieved of that duty at his own request. In August, 1864, he 
resigned and accepted a commission as captain in the Forty- 
fifth regiment of United States volunteers, but was unfortunate 
in receiving a sunstroke shortly after his appointment that 
prevented his entering upon an active campaign. He there¬ 
fore secured his discharge, and in November, 1864, was re¬ 
appointed an assistant in the Coast Survey. During Mr. 
Goodfellow’s long career on the field-work of the Survey he 
had charge of many important stations and assisted in some 
of the operations of the Survey that have become historical. 
In 1866-1867 he was at Hearts Content, the American end of 
the first exchanges of time by cable to determine difference 
