GOODMAN-HERMAN FAMILY

 I have had requests that a History of the Goodman-Herman Ancestors be compiled. For twelve years my daughters and I have been researching the Genealogy of the Goodman - Herman line.(It started out as a 4-H project) The book was completed by the 91st Reunion which was in 1998 (100 years) from the First Reunion. The book has copies of pictures and important documents in it. In compiling a work of this complexity, we have had a lot of help from family members. Cleo Herman Levengood has shared her research. So far we have over 700 family members in our files.

The Goodman Family-The Dash Between The Dates
The book is completed and is 224 pages, it includes copies of pictures and important documents with an index.
Book contains information on the Frederick and Margaret Gutman (Goodman) Family, their children were:
Margaret Goodman Carl stayed in Germany
Mary Goodman Hirrning moved to St. Louis Missouri
John Goodman stayed in Germany
Catherine Goodman Herman b. 1833 d. 1911 Tusc. County, Ohio
Leonard John Goodman b. 1843 d. 1938 lived in Holmes County, Ohio
John Michael Goodman b. 853 d. 1925 lived in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
760+ decendants listed.
The book is not just dates, but the "dash" which is the information found on their lives from family information and newspaper articles.
It can be purchased from: Peggy A. (Tissot) Brown, 6230 Adams Rd. N.E., New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663-8000. The cost of the book is $40.00 plus $4.95 postage for a total of $44.95
Contact dcbrown@tusco.net

The GOODMAN family did not come to the United States together. The first to come was Catherine, b. June 19, 1833, who in 1854 at age 21 came to America She married John Herman Dec. 13, 1855 in Tuscarawas County ( Tusc Cty Marriage Records Vol 5) and settled on the Winesburg-Dundee road. Because her husband had been ill several years before his death, she asked her brother Leonard John Goodman b. June 11, 1843 to come over and help on the farm in 1869 (from Holmes County History Book page 50). From Cemetery records I found that John Michael Goodman was b. January 1, 1853, so I figure he was the youngest of the family and I am not sure when he came to the U.S. George Leonard Goodman and his half brother Fred Carl came about 1876, with George signing his naturalization papers in Holmes county in 1886. Leonard John Goodman signed his naturalization papers in Tuscarawas County June 14, 1873.

1. Margaret GOODMAN Carl Rowe had possibly 5 children - two that came to the U.S.:
(not sure if she was married when George was born) A third son John Rowe and 2 daughters (I don't know their names) remainded in Germany.
George Leonard Goodman b. 1859 married Fannie Sommers they had 11 children.
 Fred Carl b. 1862 married Minnie they had 2 children

2. Catherine GOODMAN married John Herman and settled in the Winesburg-Dundee area they had nine children: (John died Feb. 20, 1872 one month before his youngest child was born)

 

3. Leonard John GOODMAN and Minnie Langkamp married March 4, 1885 and had 3 children:
 Infant
Harry Leonard Goodman b. 1888 married Minnie Ida Faul
Allen Frederick Goodman b. 1891 married Elsie Arnold
Their mother died in 1892 of typhoid.

Leonard then married Mary Lena Wingeier their children were:
 Walter Atlee Goodman b1891 married Mary Kittel moved West at age 13.
Minnie F. Goodman b. 1895 married Karl (Earl V.) Bartchy
Twin daughters Mary and Mandy b. 1897 died within 6 months of birth.

Ruby V. Goodman b. 1898 d. 1975
Ralph Rudolph Goodman b. 1901 married Selma Trubey d. 1970,married second Edna
Leonard Donald Goodman b. 1905 married Beulah M.Troyer

4. John Michael GOODMAN married Magdalena Rosina Brinbaum and they had :
 Mary C. Goodman b. 1885 married Fred Zurcher
Alfred R. Goodman b. 1887 married Hazel G. Ruegsegger

 

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