The subject of this sketch was born at Sharon, Noble county, Ohio, January 20, 1844, and at the age of fourteen years he entered the Republican office at Sarahsville, Ohio, as an apprentice, afterward working at his chosen occupation at Springfield and Newark, Ohio, and enlisting at the latter place, at the age of eighteen years, in the defense of his country. He served with credit during the entire war in the First Ohio Cavalry, being first lieutenant when discharged, in July, 1865.

Shortly afterward he was united in marriage with Catharine C. Kneisly, to which union four children were born: Harry O., Charles F., Louis P. and Walter R., each of whom learned the printer's trade and is now engaged in that line of business.

In 1868 Dr. Goodrich was admitted to the practice of medicine, but in a few years resumed the newspaper life, editing papers in several towns in eastern Ohio, and finally located at Troy, Ohio, in 1882, establishing The Troy Chronicle and later, in 1884, The Daily Trojan.

In 1889 he was appointed assistant doorkeeper of the house of representatives, and in 1891 received an appointment under Secretary Charles Foster. During the latter years of his life he was a great sufferer from disease contracted in the service of his country, from which he died at Washington, D. C., August 31, 1892. He was buried in the beautiful Riverside cemetery, at Troy, Ohio, September 4, 1892.

As a journalist, Dr. Goodrich had a rich, racy style that attracted attention and commanded interest. He had good descriptive powers, a humor, quaint, original and sometimes broad in its application. When trampled upon he had a pen bitter as gall, and his short pungent, invective sentences were as cruel and merciless as grapeshot from an exploding shell. He despised shams, he was intense in his hatred, and faithful in his friendship.