Thomas Jefferson Goodwin
4 Jun 1865 - 1943
diedArizona, USA
bornPerry, Missouri, USA
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BiographyFarmer, rancherin 1926., '29, '30, and businessman.Came to Tempe in 1888.
Tempe City Councilman, 1906-1908, 1910-1914, and 1916-1922.
With his brothers, James C. and Robert G. Goodwin, helped build six miles of canal known as the Kyrene Ditch or Orange Belt Canal, which opened up a new farming district, known as the Kyrene district. He was a date grower in 1920,'21, '23, '31, '32..
With his brothers, he helped establish a street car line in Tempe. They also secured a right of way for the Southern Pacific Railroad from Phoenix to Mesa. He and his brother, William, went into the grocery business in a building on the northeast corner of 4th Street and Mill. He was one of the donors that contributed to a fund to purchase the site for the Territorial Normal School in 1885.
He was a shareholder in the Tempe Irrigating Canal Company in 1923. He owned 9 acres in section 23 in 1924. Memberof City Council in 1928.
He was a member of Woodmen of the World lodge.
In 1926, -'28, -'29, -'30 was a rancher farmer, lived at 517 E. 8th Street, c1909-1926, '28, '29, '30, '31, '32. In 1932 had wife, Ollie
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BIO-Goodwin
Old Settlers Collection, THM
Federal census (Tempe), 1900, 1910
TH-120.03; TH-231; TH-311
Lamb, Historical Overview of Tempe
Hopkins and Thomas, The ASU Story, p. 51
Tempe CD, 1905-1920,'23, -'25, '26,-'28 '29, '30, '31, '32
Tempe Telephone Directory, 1924
Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe
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