Notes for Aubrey Chester Goodwin

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Notes for Aubrey Chester Goodwin

The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 134

AUBREY CHESTER GOODWIN.

Aubrey Chester Goodwin, who follows farming near Thorp, is one of the native
sons of Kittitas county. He was born upon the old Goodwin homestead May 20,
1884, a son of Thomas B. and Sarah (Cumberland) Goodwin, who are mentioned
elsewhere in this work. He acquired a public school education and in his
youthful days engaged in ranching with his father. He afterward rented his
father's farm in connection with his brother Stanley and subsequently they
purchased farm land, which they cultivated together for a time, but eventually
Aubrey C. Goodwin sold his interest to his brother. He afterward leased the old
home place, which he continued to cultivate for two and a half years. He next
conducted a livery stable in Ellensburg, where he lived for two years, and later
he was engaged along various lines for a few years. He afterward again took
charge of the home farm, which he then conducted for two years, and in 1918 he
purchased fifty-eight acres of land a mile west of Thorp. Upon this place he has
a fine house and large, substantial barns and in fact his is one of the well
improved properties of the neighborhood. He is engaged in raising grain and hay
and his business affairs are wisely and systematically conducted, bringing him
substantial success.

On the 1st of May, 1907, Mr. Goodwin was married to Miss Ethel McMillan, of
Ellensburg, and they are widely and favorably known in the section of the county
in which they make their home. In politics Mr. Goodwin is a democrat where
national questions and issues are involved but at local elections casts an
independent ballot. He has always preferred to concentrate his efforts and
attention upon his business affairs and he is a representative of a family that
has always been identified with progressive farming. His father brought the
first car load of farm machinery into the Kittitas valley, shipping it to The
Dalles, Oregon, and hauling it by team the rest of the way. His stock included
the first headers and binders ever used in the district. Throughout all the
intervening years the Goodwin family have stood in the vanguard of
progressiveness along all those lines which have to do with agricultural
development and their worth as citizens is widely acknowledged.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.