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- Yearbook of the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Edward Bssett Goodyear
Edward Bassett Goodyear died suddenly at his home in Naugatuck, of pneumonia, April 26, 1899. He was the youngest son of Chauncey and Esther (Bassett) Goodyear, and was born in Washington, Connecticut, March 18, 1840. In 1842 his parents removed to New Haven, where he was educated in the public schools.
In the summer of 1861 he enlisted in the Union army as a private, there being at that time no Connecticut troops ready to be sent to the front, he and a few friends who enlisted at the same time were put into the 43d New York regiment, where he was rapidly promoted until he reached the rank of Captain. He was twice wounded and served until the end of the war. August 3, 1871, he married Caroline Lewis Merriman of New Haven, a grand-daughters of a Revolutionary soldier, who with three sons and a daughter survive him. After having spent some time in New Haven, Meriden and Chicago he went to Naugatuck to live in 1878, and for the succeeding eighteen years was employed by the Goodyear Metallic Rubber Shoe Co. of that place. He was a life long Republican, deeply interested in politics, both national and local.
He had traveled extensively and was well informed on all the great questions of the day, was a Mason and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.
He was descended from Stephen Goodyear, Deputy Gov. of New Haven Colony 1638-1657 and was admitted to the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution March 26, 1892, as a descendant of Stephen Goodyear who commanded a company near New York in 1777; and as a descendant of Captain Mathew Gilbert killed at New Haven July 5, 1779, during the Tyron invasion.
New Haven Register, New Haven, Connecticut, Friday, April 28, 1899
Obituary
EDWARD BASSETT GOODYEAR
The funeral of Edward Bassett Goodyear of Naugatuck, who died Wednesday morning, aged 59, took place in that town at 2 p.m. today from his late residence.
Mr. Goodyear was a descendant of Stephen Goodyear, who was deputy governor of New Haven colony in 1638-1657. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Goodyear and was born in Washington, Conn., March 18, 1840. In 1842 his parents moved to New Haven, where he remained until 1861, when he enlisted in the Union army, serving four years. At the close of the war he was captain of Company A, Forty-third New York Volunteers. He was a machinist, and worked at this trade in Meriden, New Haven and Chicagho, being in Chicago at the time of the great fire. He came to reside in Naugatuck in 1878, and was cashier for the G.M.R. Shoe Company until 1895. He was a staunch Republican, and occasionally took a prominent part in local politics. He had been selectman, and for the past two years had been clerk of the borough court. He was a member of Wooster Lodge, F. and A.M., of New Haven, but transferred his membership to Shepherd Lodge, Naugatuck. He was also a member of the Connecticut society of the Sons of the Revolution, and of Isbell Post, G.A.R. Mr. Goodyear?s father was cousin to Charles Goodyear, the discoverer of the process of vulcanizing rubber.
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1840 - 1899 (59 years)