Background
Harvey Goodall was born on May 28, 1836, at Lunenburg, Essex County, Vermont.
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Harvey Goodall
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Goodall spent his boyhood on a farm and enjoyed only limited educational advantages but read with eagerness all the books he was able to procure. He subsequently studied stenography.
Career
At the age of sixteen, Goodall left home fired with a desire to see the world. He shipped as a sailor to Europe, where he tramped the roads for some months without funds or friends. Becoming homesick, he returned to the United States and found employment in a New England cotton-mill.
He was an official reporter during two sessions of the Pennsylvania Senate, and then engaged in newspaper work in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and New York, successively.
About 1858, he went to London for the purpose of publishing a daily paper on board the Great Eastern, then about ready to enter the service. When this scheme was defeated by an explosion on board the vessel which delayed its departure for some months, Goodall accepted the treasurership of a large circus, with which he toured Europe.
He returned to the United States by way of Havana and arrived in New Orleans while the Louisiana state convention was in the act of passing the secession resolutions. Despite the imminence of war, however, he succeeded in getting a boat for the North, and on his arrival at Alton, Illinois, enlisted in the 2nd Illinois Cavalry, in which as a non-commissioned officer he served for three years.
After the close of the war, he again engaged in newspaper work at Cairo, Illinois, where he published the Cairo Daily Times until 1868. A year later, he went to Chicago and established the weekly Sun, maintaining also an office for the printing of market circulars and miscellaneous job work.
Impressed with the importance of the livestock industry of the West and Northwest, of which Chicago had become the focus and distributing point, he decided to issue a livestock market paper in place of his weekly market circulars. This paper, which he called the Drovers Journal, was published at the Union Stock Yards and was first issued on January 11, 1873.
The first livestock market paper ever published, it soon won for itself an important place in the livestock industry and was of great service in making known the facilities of the Union Stock Yards. A daily edition was started in January 1877 and a semiweekly edition was also published.
Goodall maintained a branch office of the Drovers Journal in Liverpool for a year or two in the early eighties but closed it when unfavorable restrictions upon the importation of American cattle made it unnecessary. To the end of his life, however, he continued to publish the Chicago editions of the Drovers Journal and the Sun, which had become a daily.
In 1900, he died of heart trouble. The Drovers Journal was carried on for some years by his wife.
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Personality
Goodall was a generous man of upright character, scrupulously honest and conscientiously just in all his dealings.
Connections
In 1883, Goodall married Ellen F. Sullivan.
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American