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Goodwin received his education in the State university of Indiana, at Bloomington, that State, and was graduated from that institution of learning in the class of 1883. Leaving the university, he taught school in Clark county, Indiana, read law for six months, and then became a reporter on the Indianapolis Times, which he left later to assume a similar position on the Indianapolis Journal, where his labors were terminated in a short time by ill-health. He then went to Los Angeles, in southwestern California, where he remained about four years for his health, and during that time was editorial writer and associate editor on the Los Angeles Evening Express. After his health had improved to considerable extent he came east in December, 1890, and took a position on the Washington (D. C.) Post, which he held up to April, 1891, where confinement in an eastern climate had so affected his health that an out-door occupation was ordered by medical advice. An opportunity being offered him at that time to engage in the lumber business in Cambria county, he accepted the offer and became a member of the present firm of Kuhns and Goodwin, who now own over four thousand acres of timber. In their busiest season they employ from eighty to ninety hands, and have a yearly output from their mills of five million feet of lumber. On their timber tract they have three miles of logging railroad on which they run a locomotive, and their mills have a capacity of thirty-five thousand feet of lumber per day. Doing a large and successful business, the firm is widely and favorably known.     On November 17, 1885, Mr. Goodwin wedded Harriet A. Kuhns, a daughter of the late Philip S. Kuhns, a resident of Greensburg, Westmoreland county, and a member of that old and respectable Kuhns family, so well-known in that section. Mr. and Mrs. Good-

win have two children: Helen L., born December 10, 1893, and John K., born July, 25, 1895.     In politics Clarence L. Goodwin is a Jefferson Democrat, opposed to the centralization of power in the general government, though holding that government is always empowered to protect itself in the exercise of all its functions. He now resides at Dunlo. He was a delegate to the Democratic State convention of 1895, at Williamsport, where on the floor of the convention hall he presented the name of Hon. W. Horace Rose, of Johnstown as a candidate for nomination for Superior Court judge. Mr. Goodwin has been a participant in the active scenes of several important political campaigns. He first took part in the presidential canvass of 1888 in California, when he spoke at various places in the interest of the Democratic nominees. In the gubernatorial campaign of 1894, in Pennsylvania, he made several speeches in favor of the Democratic nominee. Prior to his graduation he represented his university in the State College Oratorical contest and won. He then represented his State in the Inter-State Collegiate Oratorical contest of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, and won third place, and delivered the annual address before the alumni of his university for the year 1894. HON. SAMUEL D. PATTERSON, a member of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, from Cambria county, is a son of Thomas and Magdalene (Dunkle) Patterson, and was born in Green township, Indiana county, Pennsylvania, February 16, 1845. As the name would indicate, the Pattersons are of Scotch-Irish origin. The progenitors of the American branch of the family, after landing at Philadelphia, with the characteristic

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