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Adolphus Clemens Good was born on December 19, 1856, in a log house at West Mahoning, Pennsylvania. He was the second of five sons of Abram Good, a German farmer, and his wife, Hannah Irwin, of Scot-Irish descent. When the boy was thirteen the family moved to Glade Run, where he grew up.
Good entered the Glade Run Academy at sixteen, graduated at Washington and Jefferson College in 1879, and at Western Theological Seminary in 1882.
Good was ordained in June 1882 by the Presbytery of Kittanning and before the end of the year was at Baraka on the Gabun River in the French Congo, fifteen miles north of the equator. Here he began active missionary work and preached his first sermon in the native tongue within ten months after his arrival.
When the mission at Baraka was closed by the government under the requirement that all religious and educational work should be conducted in the French language, a new station was opened in 1885 at Kangwe, 150 miles inland on the Ogowai River, just south of the equator. Here, for seven years, Good made constant journeys into the hinterlands by boat, established churches, and organized a successful and lasting work.
In 1892, however, fearing that the mission would be closed by the government, the Presbyterian Board turned it over to French Protestant missionaries, and Good began work in the Bulu country in German territory north of the French Congo. After the mission was planted at Efulen, he made a journey of 300 miles, on which he visited numerous villages, encountered great hardships, and penetrated farther inland than any previous white explorer.
Good was also an indefatigable naturalist. He collected some species of Lepidoptera and some valuable birds and mammals.
On a second journey in the fall of 1894, he was seized with a fever, but was able to reach Efulen where he died.
Good is known as Presbyterian missionary to Africa. In addition to his unusually effective missionary work, he prepared a Bulu primer, revised the translation of the New Testament and hymn-book into Mpongwe, and translated the Gospels into Bulu. He was also an indefatigable naturalist and probably added more to our knowledge of the insect forms of Africa than any other single collector. His collections of Lepidoptera, embracing forty-seven species and seventy-two genera new to science, have been described in twenty-nine papers by various authors, and his Coleoptera probably embrace over 1, 000 species previously unknown. He also collected some valuable birds and mammals.
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While in college, Good did much toward self-support, and was noted for his splendid physique, his serious, manly deportment, and his versatility, by which he was characterized through life.
On June 21, 1883, Good was married to Lydia B. Walker, who with one son survived him.
