The Franklin Republican, Friday, 25 March 1904, pg 7
JUDGE GOODING IS DEAD.
Widely Known Indiana Jurist Succumbs to an Attack of Pneumonia.
Judge David S. Gooding, of Greenfield, one of the most widely known Democrats in Indiana, who just before and after the civil war was closely connected with the Federal administrations, died at his home in Greenfield Sunday night. At his extreme age, he was unable to combat a severe attack of pneumonia and succumbed after a week’s struggle.
Judge Gooding was sick but one week but shortly after his illness began, he became unconscious and never recovered his senses.
He was one of the earliest residents of Greenfield and was the oldest inhabitant of Hancock county. He was born in Fleming county, Kentucky, January 20, 1824, and came with his parents to Rush county, Indiana, when he was about two years old.
In 1848 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Hancock county and in 1851 district prosecutor for the judicial circuit composed of the counties of Marion, Boone, Hendricks, Johnson, Shelby and Hancock. In 1852 he was elected common pleas judge and in 1856 State Senator. In 1861 he was again elected common pleas judge, which office he resigned in 1864.
After the assassination of President Lincoln, President Johnson tendered Judge Gooding the office of United States Marshal of the District of Columbia, which position he held until after the election of General Grant as President.
He was twice nominated for Congress by the Democrats and was opposed by the late Judge Jerry Wilson, late of Washington, D. C. and was defeated once by only three votes.
It has been said that Judge Gooding had made more political speeches than any man in Indiana.
Judge Gooding was widely known throughout Johnson county and had a large circle of friends here. He looked after some legal work for some of his clients in the Johnson Circuit court up until the past few months, until his physical condition necessitated his retiring from active practice.
[Provided by Mark McCrady #47714241 and Cathea Curry #47339429]
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The Pioneer: Samuel Harden, Anderson, Indiana 1895
HON. DAVID S. GOODING
Judge David S. Gooding was born in Fleming County, Kentucky, January 20, 1824. His father, Asa Gooding, and his mother, Matilda Gooding, were natives Kentuckians. His grandfather, David Gooding, was a Captain in the War of 1812, and in the battle of the Thames, and by the soldiers under his command it was believed, in which opinion he concurred, that it was he and not Colonel R. M. Johnson that in that battle killed the famous Indian Chief and warrior, Tecumseh. That he in that battle took the scalp of an Indian officer of rank there is no question. Judge Gooding, on his father's side is relatied to the Thomas and Collins families, and on his mother's side to the numerous Hunt and Alexander families of Kentucky.
Judge Gooding's father, in 1827 removed from Kentucky to Rush county, Indiana, and from there to Greenfield, Hancock county, in December, 1836, and was elected School Commissioner of Hancock county in 1840, and died in 1842. In 1839 Judge Gooding became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and subsequently was five years President of the County Bible Society, and for several years Superintendent of the Sabbath-school. He also taught a common school for six months. In the fall of 1839 he became a student at Asbury University (Now DePauw College)and recited many lessons to President Simpson, afterwards Bishop Simpson, of the M.E. Church, for whom he had the highest regard and affection. Among his fellow-students were United States Senator Harlan, of Iowa, United States Senator Booth, of California, Governor Porter, of Indiana, Judge Franklin, Rev. R.D. Robinson, Hon. Joseph E. McDonald, Rev. T. A. Goodwin, General David Reynolds, Rev. James F.Jaques and Rev. Edwin Black. Judge Gooding was twice President of the Philogoical Society. Before he was more than half through the regular course of studies his faqther died, and he was compelled for want of means to return to his home and end his college career, after which he studied law for a brief time with Hon. George W. Julian, than a resident of Greenfield, and was admitted to the bar in 1845.
In March, 1844, he married Frances Maria Sebastian, who was born in Scott county, Kentucky, a daughter of the late William Sebastian, ex-Clerk of the Cirsuit Court of Hancock county, Indiana. (The late John T.Sebastian, ex-Clerk of the said court, was her brother). Their married life extended over fifty years. A true and good wife and a christian woman, died January 6, 1895, leaving surviving her, her husband and only one child, Marshall B. Gooding, a lawyer.
In 1847 Judge Gooding was elected to represent Hancock county in the House of Representatives. In 1848 he was elected County Prosecuting Attorney for three years. In 1851 he was nominated by the Democracy and elected Prosescuting Attorney for the Indianapolis Circuit, composed of Hancock, Shelby, Johnson, Marion, Hendricks and Boone counties, defeating ex-Governor David Wallace for that office. In 1852 he was nominated for the Common Pleas Judgeship for the counties of Hancock and Madison, and resigned the Prosecutorship, and was elected to the Judgeship for four years, defeating Judge John Davis, of Anderson. In 1856 he was elected State Senator for four years for the counties of Hancock and Madison, defeating Hon. H. H. Hall. In 1858-8 he was editor of the Hancock Democrat. In 1861 he was again elected Judge for the counties of Hancock, Henry, Rush, Decatur and Madison for three years, to fill a vacancy, defeating Judge E. B. Martindale, now of Indianapolis.
During the war of the rebellion he was a war Democrat and zealous Union man, and acted with the Union (not Republican) party, and in 1864 his name for Presidential Elector at large headed the ticket for Lincoln and Johnson, and made more speeches for that ticket in Indiana than any other living man. In the winter of 1864-5 he was
recommended to President Lincoln for the Mission to Chili by Governor Morton, Governor Hovey, Governor Baker, Hon. Richard W. Thompson, all the Judges of the Supreme Courtof Indiana, and by a joint caucus of the Union members of the Indiana Legislature and many other prominent and leading Union men of the State.
In June, 1865, President Johnson, of his own volition, without any formal recommendation therefor, by telegram, tendered Judge Gooding the appointment of United States Marshal for the District of Columbia, which office was accepted and the duties thereof entered upon at once. He continued to hold that office during President Johnson term, and resigned in the latter part of March 1869. He was with President Johnson much of the time, in public and private,and had his confidence, and fully believes that no honester or more patriotic man was in public life, and that no truer friend of the Constituiton and Union ever lived other or died than Andrew Johnson, ex-president of the United States. Judge Gooding, soon after his resignation of the United States marhsalship, returnd to his home in Grenfield, where he has continuously had his residence for more than fifty-nine years,and now resides.
In 1870 he was the nominee of the Democratic party for Congress in the district than represented by Hon. George W. Julian, then known as the Burnt District, and largely Republican. His Republican competitor was Judge Jeremiah M. Wilson, now a distinguished lawyer of Wahsington City, D. C. The campaign was exciting and well fought on either side. The official returns showed Judge Wilson elected by the meager majority of four votes in a district of 30,000 voters, but in fact Judge Gooding was elected by a majority of at least seventeen votes and contested Wilson'selection, but failed to obtain the seat by a party vote in the United States House of Representaives, the Republicans having a large majority in the House at that time.
Judge Gooding and Judge Wilson were again the candidates of their respective parties for Congress in 1872. This was in the Greely campaign, an unfortunate year for Democratic candidates, and Judge Wilson was elected by a small majority, that majority being composed largely of imported sewing machine peddlers and college students, non-residents of the districts.
In 1877 Judge Gooding was the President of the democratic State Convention, which was held in Indianapolis, January 8, 1877, in regard to the fraudulent, pretended election of R. B. Hayes to the Presidence. In 1878 he was a candidate before the Democratic State Convention for Secretary of State, and had the highest vote on the first ballot, but was finally defeated by Hon. John G. Shanklin, who was nominated and elected. In 1880 Judge Gooding's name was at the head of the Hancock and English Presidential Electoral ticket for Indiana. In this campange he made a very thorough canvass of this State. In 1884 he was nominated and elected to the Indiana House of Representatives, and was defeated for the Speakership by Hon. Charles L. Jewett, but was made Chairman of the Democratic Joint Causus Committee of the House of Representiaves and Senate. He claims that during the two sessions of this Legislature he was instrumental in preventing the passage of obnoxiuous measures, saving to the peple of the State at least one hundred thousand dollars. In 1886 he was defeated for Representative because of local feud in the party, defeating most of the county ticket. In 1888 he was on the Distrct Presidential Electoral Democratic ticket. Since then he has not been a candidate for any office.
In June, 1891, he was elected and commissioned a member of the School Board of the city of Greenfield for the term of three years,and was selected President of the Board, and served a such until the expiration of his term. He now resides in Greenfield, but has a law office in Indianapolis, and is in active law practice there. In politics, he is now, as always heretofore, on the side of the masses of the people, a Democrat on the old principles of that party, in favor of the coinage and legal tender of silver and gold on equsal terms and greenbacks or treasury notes, all legal tender alike for all debts, public and private, and opposed to National banks of issue.
In addition to the foregoing, it may be added that he has made two general campaigns as a speaker of the Democracy in Ohio at the request of the State Committee, one in the William Allen and the other in the Hon.Thomas Ewing campaigns for Governor. In 1888 he made, at the request of the Democratic National Committee, campaign speeches in the State of Maine, for which he was highly complimentd by the State Committee. In 1892 he was again invited by the National Democratic Committee to make campaign speeches, and that he might choose the State, but this invitation he declined for reasons not necessary at this time to state.
The great length of the foregoing forbids any detailed notice of him as a lawyer. Suffice to say that for many years he was a leading lawyer at the bar, and had a large and lucrative practice in this and adjoining counties and in the Supreme Court, and about thirty years ago was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States on motion of United States Attorney-General Stanbury. He is now the oldest living ex-Representative and ex-State Senator in Hancock county and the oldest living Common Pleas Judge of Hancock and Madison counties, the oldest living County and Circuit Prosescuting Attorney of this county, and the only Democratic citzen of Hancock county ever nominated for Congress,and the oldest living United States Marshal of the District of Columbia,and the oldest living United States marshal for the Supreme court of the United States, and yet he is now in the active practice of the law.
[Note: he is my 2nd cousin 3x removed..we are both desc. from Abraham Gooding, Rev. War patriot]
[Contributor - Sharon Benefiel Palmer/Added: 7 Aug 2011/#74553335]
JUDGE GOODING IS DEAD.
Widely Known Indiana Jurist Succumbs to an Attack of Pneumonia.
Judge David S. Gooding, of Greenfield, one of the most widely known Democrats in Indiana, who just before and after the civil war was closely connected with the Federal administrations, died at his home in Greenfield Sunday night. At his extreme age, he was unable to combat a severe attack of pneumonia and succumbed after a week’s struggle.
Judge Gooding was sick but one week but shortly after his illness began, he became unconscious and never recovered his senses.
He was one of the earliest residents of Greenfield and was the oldest inhabitant of Hancock county. He was born in Fleming county, Kentucky, January 20, 1824, and came with his parents to Rush county, Indiana, when he was about two years old.
In 1848 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Hancock county and in 1851 district prosecutor for the judicial circuit composed of the counties of Marion, Boone, Hendricks, Johnson, Shelby and Hancock. In 1852 he was elected common pleas judge and in 1856 State Senator. In 1861 he was again elected common pleas judge, which office he resigned in 1864.
After the assassination of President Lincoln, President Johnson tendered Judge Gooding the office of United States Marshal of the District of Columbia, which position he held until after the election of General Grant as President.
He was twice nominated for Congress by the Democrats and was opposed by the late Judge Jerry Wilson, late of Washington, D. C. and was defeated once by only three votes.
It has been said that Judge Gooding had made more political speeches than any man in Indiana.
Judge Gooding was widely known throughout Johnson county and had a large circle of friends here. He looked after some legal work for some of his clients in the Johnson Circuit court up until the past few months, until his physical condition necessitated his retiring from active practice.
[Provided by Mark McCrady #47714241 and Cathea Curry #47339429]
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The Pioneer: Samuel Harden, Anderson, Indiana 1895
HON. DAVID S. GOODING
Judge David S. Gooding was born in Fleming County, Kentucky, January 20, 1824. His father, Asa Gooding, and his mother, Matilda Gooding, were natives Kentuckians. His grandfather, David Gooding, was a Captain in the War of 1812, and in the battle of the Thames, and by the soldiers under his command it was believed, in which opinion he concurred, that it was he and not Colonel R. M. Johnson that in that battle killed the famous Indian Chief and warrior, Tecumseh. That he in that battle took the scalp of an Indian officer of rank there is no question. Judge Gooding, on his father's side is relatied to the Thomas and Collins families, and on his mother's side to the numerous Hunt and Alexander families of Kentucky.
Judge Gooding's father, in 1827 removed from Kentucky to Rush county, Indiana, and from there to Greenfield, Hancock county, in December, 1836, and was elected School Commissioner of Hancock county in 1840, and died in 1842. In 1839 Judge Gooding became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and subsequently was five years President of the County Bible Society, and for several years Superintendent of the Sabbath-school. He also taught a common school for six months. In the fall of 1839 he became a student at Asbury University (Now DePauw College)and recited many lessons to President Simpson, afterwards Bishop Simpson, of the M.E. Church, for whom he had the highest regard and affection. Among his fellow-students were United States Senator Harlan, of Iowa, United States Senator Booth, of California, Governor Porter, of Indiana, Judge Franklin, Rev. R.D. Robinson, Hon. Joseph E. McDonald, Rev. T. A. Goodwin, General David Reynolds, Rev. James F.Jaques and Rev. Edwin Black. Judge Gooding was twice President of the Philogoical Society. Before he was more than half through the regular course of studies his faqther died, and he was compelled for want of means to return to his home and end his college career, after which he studied law for a brief time with Hon. George W. Julian, than a resident of Greenfield, and was admitted to the bar in 1845.
In March, 1844, he married Frances Maria Sebastian, who was born in Scott county, Kentucky, a daughter of the late William Sebastian, ex-Clerk of the Cirsuit Court of Hancock county, Indiana. (The late John T.Sebastian, ex-Clerk of the said court, was her brother). Their married life extended over fifty years. A true and good wife and a christian woman, died January 6, 1895, leaving surviving her, her husband and only one child, Marshall B. Gooding, a lawyer.
In 1847 Judge Gooding was elected to represent Hancock county in the House of Representatives. In 1848 he was elected County Prosecuting Attorney for three years. In 1851 he was nominated by the Democracy and elected Prosescuting Attorney for the Indianapolis Circuit, composed of Hancock, Shelby, Johnson, Marion, Hendricks and Boone counties, defeating ex-Governor David Wallace for that office. In 1852 he was nominated for the Common Pleas Judgeship for the counties of Hancock and Madison, and resigned the Prosecutorship, and was elected to the Judgeship for four years, defeating Judge John Davis, of Anderson. In 1856 he was elected State Senator for four years for the counties of Hancock and Madison, defeating Hon. H. H. Hall. In 1858-8 he was editor of the Hancock Democrat. In 1861 he was again elected Judge for the counties of Hancock, Henry, Rush, Decatur and Madison for three years, to fill a vacancy, defeating Judge E. B. Martindale, now of Indianapolis.
During the war of the rebellion he was a war Democrat and zealous Union man, and acted with the Union (not Republican) party, and in 1864 his name for Presidential Elector at large headed the ticket for Lincoln and Johnson, and made more speeches for that ticket in Indiana than any other living man. In the winter of 1864-5 he was
recommended to President Lincoln for the Mission to Chili by Governor Morton, Governor Hovey, Governor Baker, Hon. Richard W. Thompson, all the Judges of the Supreme Courtof Indiana, and by a joint caucus of the Union members of the Indiana Legislature and many other prominent and leading Union men of the State.
In June, 1865, President Johnson, of his own volition, without any formal recommendation therefor, by telegram, tendered Judge Gooding the appointment of United States Marshal for the District of Columbia, which office was accepted and the duties thereof entered upon at once. He continued to hold that office during President Johnson term, and resigned in the latter part of March 1869. He was with President Johnson much of the time, in public and private,and had his confidence, and fully believes that no honester or more patriotic man was in public life, and that no truer friend of the Constituiton and Union ever lived other or died than Andrew Johnson, ex-president of the United States. Judge Gooding, soon after his resignation of the United States marhsalship, returnd to his home in Grenfield, where he has continuously had his residence for more than fifty-nine years,and now resides.
In 1870 he was the nominee of the Democratic party for Congress in the district than represented by Hon. George W. Julian, then known as the Burnt District, and largely Republican. His Republican competitor was Judge Jeremiah M. Wilson, now a distinguished lawyer of Wahsington City, D. C. The campaign was exciting and well fought on either side. The official returns showed Judge Wilson elected by the meager majority of four votes in a district of 30,000 voters, but in fact Judge Gooding was elected by a majority of at least seventeen votes and contested Wilson'selection, but failed to obtain the seat by a party vote in the United States House of Representaives, the Republicans having a large majority in the House at that time.
Judge Gooding and Judge Wilson were again the candidates of their respective parties for Congress in 1872. This was in the Greely campaign, an unfortunate year for Democratic candidates, and Judge Wilson was elected by a small majority, that majority being composed largely of imported sewing machine peddlers and college students, non-residents of the districts.
In 1877 Judge Gooding was the President of the democratic State Convention, which was held in Indianapolis, January 8, 1877, in regard to the fraudulent, pretended election of R. B. Hayes to the Presidence. In 1878 he was a candidate before the Democratic State Convention for Secretary of State, and had the highest vote on the first ballot, but was finally defeated by Hon. John G. Shanklin, who was nominated and elected. In 1880 Judge Gooding's name was at the head of the Hancock and English Presidential Electoral ticket for Indiana. In this campange he made a very thorough canvass of this State. In 1884 he was nominated and elected to the Indiana House of Representatives, and was defeated for the Speakership by Hon. Charles L. Jewett, but was made Chairman of the Democratic Joint Causus Committee of the House of Representiaves and Senate. He claims that during the two sessions of this Legislature he was instrumental in preventing the passage of obnoxiuous measures, saving to the peple of the State at least one hundred thousand dollars. In 1886 he was defeated for Representative because of local feud in the party, defeating most of the county ticket. In 1888 he was on the Distrct Presidential Electoral Democratic ticket. Since then he has not been a candidate for any office.
In June, 1891, he was elected and commissioned a member of the School Board of the city of Greenfield for the term of three years,and was selected President of the Board, and served a such until the expiration of his term. He now resides in Greenfield, but has a law office in Indianapolis, and is in active law practice there. In politics, he is now, as always heretofore, on the side of the masses of the people, a Democrat on the old principles of that party, in favor of the coinage and legal tender of silver and gold on equsal terms and greenbacks or treasury notes, all legal tender alike for all debts, public and private, and opposed to National banks of issue.
In addition to the foregoing, it may be added that he has made two general campaigns as a speaker of the Democracy in Ohio at the request of the State Committee, one in the William Allen and the other in the Hon.Thomas Ewing campaigns for Governor. In 1888 he made, at the request of the Democratic National Committee, campaign speeches in the State of Maine, for which he was highly complimentd by the State Committee. In 1892 he was again invited by the National Democratic Committee to make campaign speeches, and that he might choose the State, but this invitation he declined for reasons not necessary at this time to state.
The great length of the foregoing forbids any detailed notice of him as a lawyer. Suffice to say that for many years he was a leading lawyer at the bar, and had a large and lucrative practice in this and adjoining counties and in the Supreme Court, and about thirty years ago was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States on motion of United States Attorney-General Stanbury. He is now the oldest living ex-Representative and ex-State Senator in Hancock county and the oldest living Common Pleas Judge of Hancock and Madison counties, the oldest living County and Circuit Prosescuting Attorney of this county, and the only Democratic citzen of Hancock county ever nominated for Congress,and the oldest living United States Marshal of the District of Columbia,and the oldest living United States marshal for the Supreme court of the United States, and yet he is now in the active practice of the law.
[Note: he is my 2nd cousin 3x removed..we are both desc. from Abraham Gooding, Rev. War patriot]
[Contributor - Sharon Benefiel Palmer/Added: 7 Aug 2011/#74553335]
The Franklin Republican, Friday, 25 March 1904, pg 7
JUDGE GOODING IS DEAD.
Widely Known Indiana Jurist Succumbs to an Attack of Pneumonia.
Judge David S. Gooding, of Greenfield, one of the most widely known Democrats in Indiana, who just before and after the civil war was closely connected with the Federal administrations, died at his home in Greenfield Sunday night. At his extreme age, he was unable to combat a severe attack of pneumonia and succumbed after a week’s struggle.
Judge Gooding was sick but one week but shortly after his illness began, he became unconscious and never recovered his senses.
He was one of the earliest residents of Greenfield and was the oldest inhabitant of Hancock county. He was born in Fleming county, Kentucky, January 20, 1824, and came with his parents to Rush county, Indiana, when he was about two years old.
In 1848 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Hancock county and in 1851 district prosecutor for the judicial circuit composed of the counties of Marion, Boone, Hendricks, Johnson, Shelby and Hancock. In 1852 he was elected common pleas judge and in 1856 State Senator. In 1861 he was again elected common pleas judge, which office he resigned in 1864.
After the assassination of President Lincoln, President Johnson tendered Judge Gooding the office of United States Marshal of the District of Columbia, which position he held until after the election of General Grant as President.
He was twice nominated for Congress by the Democrats and was opposed by the late Judge Jerry Wilson, late of Washington, D. C. and was defeated once by only three votes.
It has been said that Judge Gooding had made more political speeches than any man in Indiana.
Judge Gooding was widely known throughout Johnson county and had a large circle of friends here. He looked after some legal work for some of his clients in the Johnson Circuit court up until the past few months, until his physical condition necessitated his retiring from active practice.
[Provided by Mark McCrady #47714241 and Cathea Curry #47339429]
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The Pioneer: Samuel Harden, Anderson, Indiana 1895
HON. DAVID S. GOODING
Judge David S. Gooding was born in Fleming County, Kentucky, January 20, 1824. His father, Asa Gooding, and his mother, Matilda Gooding, were natives Kentuckians. His grandfather, David Gooding, was a Captain in the War of 1812, and in the battle of the Thames, and by the soldiers under his command it was believed, in which opinion he concurred, that it was he and not Colonel R. M. Johnson that in that battle killed the famous Indian Chief and warrior, Tecumseh. That he in that battle took the scalp of an Indian officer of rank there is no question. Judge Gooding, on his father's side is relatied to the Thomas and Collins families, and on his mother's side to the numerous Hunt and Alexander families of Kentucky.
Judge Gooding's father, in 1827 removed from Kentucky to Rush county, Indiana, and from there to Greenfield, Hancock county, in December, 1836, and was elected School Commissioner of Hancock county in 1840, and died in 1842. In 1839 Judge Gooding became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and subsequently was five years President of the County Bible Society, and for several years Superintendent of the Sabbath-school. He also taught a common school for six months. In the fall of 1839 he became a student at Asbury University (Now DePauw College)and recited many lessons to President Simpson, afterwards Bishop Simpson, of the M.E. Church, for whom he had the highest regard and affection. Among his fellow-students were United States Senator Harlan, of Iowa, United States Senator Booth, of California, Governor Porter, of Indiana, Judge Franklin, Rev. R.D. Robinson, Hon. Joseph E. McDonald, Rev. T. A. Goodwin, General David Reynolds, Rev. James F.Jaques and Rev. Edwin Black. Judge Gooding was twice President of the Philogoical Society. Before he was more than half through the regular course of studies his faqther died, and he was compelled for want of means to return to his home and end his college career, after which he studied law for a brief time with Hon. George W. Julian, than a resident of Greenfield, and was admitted to the bar in 1845.
In March, 1844, he married Frances Maria Sebastian, who was born in Scott county, Kentucky, a daughter of the late William Sebastian, ex-Clerk of the Cirsuit Court of Hancock county, Indiana. (The late John T.Sebastian, ex-Clerk of the said court, was her brother). Their married life extended over fifty years. A true and good wife and a christian woman, died January 6, 1895, leaving surviving her, her husband and only one child, Marshall B. Gooding, a lawyer.
In 1847 Judge Gooding was elected to represent Hancock county in the House of Representatives. In 1848 he was elected County Prosecuting Attorney for three years. In 1851 he was nominated by the Democracy and elected Prosescuting Attorney for the Indianapolis Circuit, composed of Hancock, Shelby, Johnson, Marion, Hendricks and Boone counties, defeating ex-Governor David Wallace for that office. In 1852 he was nominated for the Common Pleas Judgeship for the counties of Hancock and Madison, and resigned the Prosecutorship, and was elected to the Judgeship for four years, defeating Judge John Davis, of Anderson. In 1856 he was elected State Senator for four years for the counties of Hancock and Madison, defeating Hon. H. H. Hall. In 1858-8 he was editor of the Hancock Democrat. In 1861 he was again elected Judge for the counties of Hancock, Henry, Rush, Decatur and Madison for three years, to fill a vacancy, defeating Judge E. B. Martindale, now of Indianapolis.
During the war of the rebellion he was a war Democrat and zealous Union man, and acted with the Union (not Republican) party, and in 1864 his name for Presidential Elector at large headed the ticket for Lincoln and Johnson, and made more speeches for that ticket in Indiana than any other living man. In the winter of 1864-5 he was
recommended to President Lincoln for the Mission to Chili by Governor Morton, Governor Hovey, Governor Baker, Hon. Richard W. Thompson, all the Judges of the Supreme Courtof Indiana, and by a joint caucus of the Union members of the Indiana Legislature and many other prominent and leading Union men of the State.
In June, 1865, President Johnson, of his own volition, without any formal recommendation therefor, by telegram, tendered Judge Gooding the appointment of United States Marshal for the District of Columbia, which office was accepted and the duties thereof entered upon at once. He continued to hold that office during President Johnson term, and resigned in the latter part of March 1869. He was with President Johnson much of the time, in public and private,and had his confidence, and fully believes that no honester or more patriotic man was in public life, and that no truer friend of the Constituiton and Union ever lived other or died than Andrew Johnson, ex-president of the United States. Judge Gooding, soon after his resignation of the United States marhsalship, returnd to his home in Grenfield, where he has continuously had his residence for more than fifty-nine years,and now resides.
In 1870 he was the nominee of the Democratic party for Congress in the district than represented by Hon. George W. Julian, then known as the Burnt District, and largely Republican. His Republican competitor was Judge Jeremiah M. Wilson, now a distinguished lawyer of Wahsington City, D. C. The campaign was exciting and well fought on either side. The official returns showed Judge Wilson elected by the meager majority of four votes in a district of 30,000 voters, but in fact Judge Gooding was elected by a majority of at least seventeen votes and contested Wilson'selection, but failed to obtain the seat by a party vote in the United States House of Representaives, the Republicans having a large majority in the House at that time.
Judge Gooding and Judge Wilson were again the candidates of their respective parties for Congress in 1872. This was in the Greely campaign, an unfortunate year for Democratic candidates, and Judge Wilson was elected by a small majority, that majority being composed largely of imported sewing machine peddlers and college students, non-residents of the districts.
In 1877 Judge Gooding was the President of the democratic State Convention, which was held in Indianapolis, January 8, 1877, in regard to the fraudulent, pretended election of R. B. Hayes to the Presidence. In 1878 he was a candidate before the Democratic State Convention for Secretary of State, and had the highest vote on the first ballot, but was finally defeated by Hon. John G. Shanklin, who was nominated and elected. In 1880 Judge Gooding's name was at the head of the Hancock and English Presidential Electoral ticket for Indiana. In this campange he made a very thorough canvass of this State. In 1884 he was nominated and elected to the Indiana House of Representatives, and was defeated for the Speakership by Hon. Charles L. Jewett, but was made Chairman of the Democratic Joint Causus Committee of the House of Representiaves and Senate. He claims that during the two sessions of this Legislature he was instrumental in preventing the passage of obnoxiuous measures, saving to the peple of the State at least one hundred thousand dollars. In 1886 he was defeated for Representative because of local feud in the party, defeating most of the county ticket. In 1888 he was on the Distrct Presidential Electoral Democratic ticket. Since then he has not been a candidate for any office.
In June, 1891, he was elected and commissioned a member of the School Board of the city of Greenfield for the term of three years,and was selected President of the Board, and served a such until the expiration of his term. He now resides in Greenfield, but has a law office in Indianapolis, and is in active law practice there. In politics, he is now, as always heretofore, on the side of the masses of the people, a Democrat on the old principles of that party, in favor of the coinage and legal tender of silver and gold on equsal terms and greenbacks or treasury notes, all legal tender alike for all debts, public and private, and opposed to National banks of issue.
In addition to the foregoing, it may be added that he has made two general campaigns as a speaker of the Democracy in Ohio at the request of the State Committee, one in the William Allen and the other in the Hon.Thomas Ewing campaigns for Governor. In 1888 he made, at the request of the Democratic National Committee, campaign speeches in the State of Maine, for which he was highly complimentd by the State Committee. In 1892 he was again invited by the National Democratic Committee to make campaign speeches, and that he might choose the State, but this invitation he declined for reasons not necessary at this time to state.
The great length of the foregoing forbids any detailed notice of him as a lawyer. Suffice to say that for many years he was a leading lawyer at the bar, and had a large and lucrative practice in this and adjoining counties and in the Supreme Court, and about thirty years ago was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States on motion of United States Attorney-General Stanbury. He is now the oldest living ex-Representative and ex-State Senator in Hancock county and the oldest living Common Pleas Judge of Hancock and Madison counties, the oldest living County and Circuit Prosescuting Attorney of this county, and the only Democratic citzen of Hancock county ever nominated for Congress,and the oldest living United States Marshal of the District of Columbia,and the oldest living United States marshal for the Supreme court of the United States, and yet he is now in the active practice of the law.
[Note: he is my 2nd cousin 3x removed..we are both desc. from Abraham Gooding, Rev. War patriot]
[Contributor - Sharon Benefiel Palmer/Added: 7 Aug 2011/#74553335]
JUDGE GOODING IS DEAD.
Widely Known Indiana Jurist Succumbs to an Attack of Pneumonia.
Judge David S. Gooding, of Greenfield, one of the most widely known Democrats in Indiana, who just before and after the civil war was closely connected with the Federal administrations, died at his home in Greenfield Sunday night. At his extreme age, he was unable to combat a severe attack of pneumonia and succumbed after a week’s struggle.
Judge Gooding was sick but one week but shortly after his illness began, he became unconscious and never recovered his senses.
He was one of the earliest residents of Greenfield and was the oldest inhabitant of Hancock county. He was born in Fleming county, Kentucky, January 20, 1824, and came with his parents to Rush county, Indiana, when he was about two years old.
In 1848 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Hancock county and in 1851 district prosecutor for the judicial circuit composed of the counties of Marion, Boone, Hendricks, Johnson, Shelby and Hancock. In 1852 he was elected common pleas judge and in 1856 State Senator. In 1861 he was again elected common pleas judge, which office he resigned in 1864.
After the assassination of President Lincoln, President Johnson tendered Judge Gooding the office of United States Marshal of the District of Columbia, which position he held until after the election of General Grant as President.
He was twice nominated for Congress by the Democrats and was opposed by the late Judge Jerry Wilson, late of Washington, D. C. and was defeated once by only three votes.
It has been said that Judge Gooding had made more political speeches than any man in Indiana.
Judge Gooding was widely known throughout Johnson county and had a large circle of friends here. He looked after some legal work for some of his clients in the Johnson Circuit court up until the past few months, until his physical condition necessitated his retiring from active practice.
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The Pioneer: Samuel Harden, Anderson, Indiana 1895
HON. DAVID S. GOODING
Judge David S. Gooding was born in Fleming County, Kentucky, January 20, 1824. His father, Asa Gooding, and his mother, Matilda Gooding, were natives Kentuckians. His grandfather, David Gooding, was a Captain in the War of 1812, and in the battle of the Thames, and by the soldiers under his command it was believed, in which opinion he concurred, that it was he and not Colonel R. M. Johnson that in that battle killed the famous Indian Chief and warrior, Tecumseh. That he in that battle took the scalp of an Indian officer of rank there is no question. Judge Gooding, on his father's side is relatied to the Thomas and Collins families, and on his mother's side to the numerous Hunt and Alexander families of Kentucky.
Judge Gooding's father, in 1827 removed from Kentucky to Rush county, Indiana, and from there to Greenfield, Hancock county, in December, 1836, and was elected School Commissioner of Hancock county in 1840, and died in 1842. In 1839 Judge Gooding became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and subsequently was five years President of the County Bible Society, and for several years Superintendent of the Sabbath-school. He also taught a common school for six months. In the fall of 1839 he became a student at Asbury University (Now DePauw College)and recited many lessons to President Simpson, afterwards Bishop Simpson, of the M.E. Church, for whom he had the highest regard and affection. Among his fellow-students were United States Senator Harlan, of Iowa, United States Senator Booth, of California, Governor Porter, of Indiana, Judge Franklin, Rev. R.D. Robinson, Hon. Joseph E. McDonald, Rev. T. A. Goodwin, General David Reynolds, Rev. James F.Jaques and Rev. Edwin Black. Judge Gooding was twice President of the Philogoical Society. Before he was more than half through the regular course of studies his faqther died, and he was compelled for want of means to return to his home and end his college career, after which he studied law for a brief time with Hon. George W. Julian, than a resident of Greenfield, and was admitted to the bar in 1845.
In March, 1844, he married Frances Maria Sebastian, who was born in Scott county, Kentucky, a daughter of the late William Sebastian, ex-Clerk of the Cirsuit Court of Hancock county, Indiana. (The late John T.Sebastian, ex-Clerk of the said court, was her brother). Their married life extended over fifty years. A true and good wife and a christian woman, died January 6, 1895, leaving surviving her, her husband and only one child, Marshall B. Gooding, a lawyer.
In 1847 Judge Gooding was elected to represent Hancock county in the House of Representatives. In 1848 he was elected County Prosecuting Attorney for three years. In 1851 he was nominated by the Democracy and elected Prosescuting Attorney for the Indianapolis Circuit, composed of Hancock, Shelby, Johnson, Marion, Hendricks and Boone counties, defeating ex-Governor David Wallace for that office. In 1852 he was nominated for the Common Pleas Judgeship for the counties of Hancock and Madison, and resigned the Prosecutorship, and was elected to the Judgeship for four years, defeating Judge John Davis, of Anderson. In 1856 he was elected State Senator for four years for the counties of Hancock and Madison, defeating Hon. H. H. Hall. In 1858-8 he was editor of the Hancock Democrat. In 1861 he was again elected Judge for the counties of Hancock, Henry, Rush, Decatur and Madison for three years, to fill a vacancy, defeating Judge E. B. Martindale, now of Indianapolis.
During the war of the rebellion he was a war Democrat and zealous Union man, and acted with the Union (not Republican) party, and in 1864 his name for Presidential Elector at large headed the ticket for Lincoln and Johnson, and made more speeches for that ticket in Indiana than any other living man. In the winter of 1864-5 he was
recommended to President Lincoln for the Mission to Chili by Governor Morton, Governor Hovey, Governor Baker, Hon. Richard W. Thompson, all the Judges of the Supreme Courtof Indiana, and by a joint caucus of the Union members of the Indiana Legislature and many other prominent and leading Union men of the State.
In June, 1865, President Johnson, of his own volition, without any formal recommendation therefor, by telegram, tendered Judge Gooding the appointment of United States Marshal for the District of Columbia, which office was accepted and the duties thereof entered upon at once. He continued to hold that office during President Johnson term, and resigned in the latter part of March 1869. He was with President Johnson much of the time, in public and private,and had his confidence, and fully believes that no honester or more patriotic man was in public life, and that no truer friend of the Constituiton and Union ever lived other or died than Andrew Johnson, ex-president of the United States. Judge Gooding, soon after his resignation of the United States marhsalship, returnd to his home in Grenfield, where he has continuously had his residence for more than fifty-nine years,and now resides.
In 1870 he was the nominee of the Democratic party for Congress in the district than represented by Hon. George W. Julian, then known as the Burnt District, and largely Republican. His Republican competitor was Judge Jeremiah M. Wilson, now a distinguished lawyer of Wahsington City, D. C. The campaign was exciting and well fought on either side. The official returns showed Judge Wilson elected by the meager majority of four votes in a district of 30,000 voters, but in fact Judge Gooding was elected by a majority of at least seventeen votes and contested Wilson'selection, but failed to obtain the seat by a party vote in the United States House of Representaives, the Republicans having a large majority in the House at that time.
Judge Gooding and Judge Wilson were again the candidates of their respective parties for Congress in 1872. This was in the Greely campaign, an unfortunate year for Democratic candidates, and Judge Wilson was elected by a small majority, that majority being composed largely of imported sewing machine peddlers and college students, non-residents of the districts.
In 1877 Judge Gooding was the President of the democratic State Convention, which was held in Indianapolis, January 8, 1877, in regard to the fraudulent, pretended election of R. B. Hayes to the Presidence. In 1878 he was a candidate before the Democratic State Convention for Secretary of State, and had the highest vote on the first ballot, but was finally defeated by Hon. John G. Shanklin, who was nominated and elected. In 1880 Judge Gooding's name was at the head of the Hancock and English Presidential Electoral ticket for Indiana. In this campange he made a very thorough canvass of this State. In 1884 he was nominated and elected to the Indiana House of Representatives, and was defeated for the Speakership by Hon. Charles L. Jewett, but was made Chairman of the Democratic Joint Causus Committee of the House of Representiaves and Senate. He claims that during the two sessions of this Legislature he was instrumental in preventing the passage of obnoxiuous measures, saving to the peple of the State at least one hundred thousand dollars. In 1886 he was defeated for Representative because of local feud in the party, defeating most of the county ticket. In 1888 he was on the Distrct Presidential Electoral Democratic ticket. Since then he has not been a candidate for any office.
In June, 1891, he was elected and commissioned a member of the School Board of the city of Greenfield for the term of three years,and was selected President of the Board, and served a such until the expiration of his term. He now resides in Greenfield, but has a law office in Indianapolis, and is in active law practice there. In politics, he is now, as always heretofore, on the side of the masses of the people, a Democrat on the old principles of that party, in favor of the coinage and legal tender of silver and gold on equsal terms and greenbacks or treasury notes, all legal tender alike for all debts, public and private, and opposed to National banks of issue.
In addition to the foregoing, it may be added that he has made two general campaigns as a speaker of the Democracy in Ohio at the request of the State Committee, one in the William Allen and the other in the Hon.Thomas Ewing campaigns for Governor. In 1888 he made, at the request of the Democratic National Committee, campaign speeches in the State of Maine, for which he was highly complimentd by the State Committee. In 1892 he was again invited by the National Democratic Committee to make campaign speeches, and that he might choose the State, but this invitation he declined for reasons not necessary at this time to state.
The great length of the foregoing forbids any detailed notice of him as a lawyer. Suffice to say that for many years he was a leading lawyer at the bar, and had a large and lucrative practice in this and adjoining counties and in the Supreme Court, and about thirty years ago was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States on motion of United States Attorney-General Stanbury. He is now the oldest living ex-Representative and ex-State Senator in Hancock county and the oldest living Common Pleas Judge of Hancock and Madison counties, the oldest living County and Circuit Prosescuting Attorney of this county, and the only Democratic citzen of Hancock county ever nominated for Congress,and the oldest living United States Marshal of the District of Columbia,and the oldest living United States marshal for the Supreme court of the United States, and yet he is now in the active practice of the law.
[Note: he is my 2nd cousin 3x removed..we are both desc. from Abraham Gooding, Rev. War patriot]
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