Francis Goodwin
Status: Upcoming
(1839-1923) priest, real estate magnate, philanthropist – born September 25, 1839, in Hartford, CT; employee, Howe, Mather & Company (1854-1856); employee, Morton & Grinnell (1856-1857); student, Berkeley Divinity School (1860-1863), ordained deacon, May 27, 1863, and priest, December 19, 1863; rector, Trinity Episcopal Church (1865-1871); rector, Saint John’s Episcopal Church (1872); rector, Trinity Episcopal Church, Wethersfield, CT (1874-1875); rector, Church of the Good Shepherd (1876-1877); archdeacon of Hartford (1878-1888); manager, J. J. & F. Goodwin (1878-1923); trustee, Wadsworth Atheneum (1875-1919); trustee, Berkeley Divinity School; trustee, Trinity College; trustee, Watkinson Farm School; director, Aetna Insurance Company; director, Holyoke Water Power Company; director, Hartford Retreat; member, Hartford Board of Park Commissioners (1880-1910); member, Hartford Board of School Visitors; member, Hartford Board of Street Commissioners (1879-1880); trustee, Keney Park; wife, Mary Alsop Jackson (1842-1922, married 1863-1922); children, James Goodwin (1865-1917), William Brownell Goodwin (1866-1950), Sarah Morgan Goodwin (1868-1909), Alice Fenwick Goodwin (1871-1947), Lucy Morgan Goodwin (1873-1884), Charles Archibald Goodwin (1876-1954), F. Spencer Goodwin (????-1953), and Jeanette Goodwin (????-1967); died October 5, 1923, in Hartford, CT. Resident of Hartford and Asylum Hill (103 Woodland Street). Helped draft City Charter adopted by Connecticut General Assembly (1895). Superintended construction of 71 Woodland Street (Goodwin Castle) and 103 Woodland Street. Helped to establish Colt Park, Elizabeth Park, Keney Park, Pope Park, and South Park, which was later named Goodwin Park in his honor. With Mary Alsop Jackson, donated funds for current Trinity Episcopal Church building and Goodwin Hall, named in honor of their daughter, Lucy Morgan Goodwin.
