Goodwin, Josiah H., 1841-1918.

Josiah H. Goodwin, born in Hancock County, Ohio, in 1841, first enlisted as a private in the 21st Ohio Infantry at the outbreak of the Civil War. He was involved in the Siege of Corinth in 1862 and soon after became a fifer in the Mississippi Marine Brigade, a Union Army unit that was part of the U.S. Ram Fleet that patrolled the Mississippi River. A house painter before and after the Civil War, Josiah Goodwin married Margaret Howard and died in 1918.

William Wiseley, Ph.D., a former U.S. Marine and captain in the Korean War, taught economics and history at Harvard. Wiseley's great aunt, Maude Goodwin, was the daughter of Josiah H. Goodwin.

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