John
Goodman, M.D.
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John Goodman,
M.D. Tulane University, New Orleans, 1859; one of the founders of
Louisville Medical College, later
demonstrator of anatomy in the Kentucky School of Medicine; professor of
obstetrics in the University of Louisville,
and for a quarter century physician to the
Louisville Industrial Home for Reform;
one of the original members of the American Gynecological Society; one
of the organizers and first members of the
Louisville Board of Health; died at his home in
Louisville, February 19, from
arteriosclerosis, aged 74.
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Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle,
Kniffin, 8th ed.,1888, Jefferson Co. JOHN GOODMAN, M.D., was born in
Frankfort on the
22d of July, 1837, and is a son of John and Jane (Winters) Goodman, the
former a native of Germany and the latter of Maryland. His father came
to Kentucky in 1801, and located at Lexington, and five years later
moved to Frankfort. He was a music teacher by profession, and died in
1848 at the age of seventy years. Subject was the only son, and was
brought up in Frankfort, and in Woodford County.
He entered Georgetown
College in 1854,and graduated in the junior class of 1856. He came to
Louisville the same year, and read medicine with Dr. Louis Rogers;
attended two courses of lectures in the University of Louisville; in
1859 graduating from the University of Louisiana at New Orleans, and has
since practiced the profession in Louisville. He was for eleven years
(up to five years ago) professor of obstetrics in Louisville Medical
College, and for four years in the Kentucky School of Medicine. He was
one of the originators of the Board of Health; he was one of the charity
commissioners for three years, and twenty-one years physician to the
House of Refuge. He was married in 1859 to Miss Caroline, daughter of
Dr. Henry Miller. She died in 1882, and he was next married, in 1884, to Mrs.
Reeseta Jones, Kalfus, daughter of R.R. Jones.
(The personal edited research
notes of Michael Echols, the source of which may or
may not be completely documented)
