Notes for Edgar Dwight Goodenough: Edgar came to Calif. with his parents when was five years old. He was educated in schools of Ventura County. He took over the operation of the family ranch when he finished his education. Edgar did teaming in the Sespe canyon, hauling stone to quarry located in that vicinity. His later holdings included a lemon orchard he developed in the canyon, as well as bean acreage. In 1906 he bought, with a Mr Stowe, eleven acres which they subdivided as Stowe-Goodenough subdivision. Before moving to Santa Paula in 1900 Edgar put this first Fillmore subdivision on the market. He acquired property on Sespe Avenue and later property on the east side of the Sespe Creek. He served as mayor of Santa Paula for two years, member of the Ventura County Board of Supervisors for eight years and its chairman for one year. He was first elected to the board in November of 1926. He was commissioner of roads and the Goodenough Road in Fillmore was named after him. He was interested in development of irrigation in the valley, he was director of the Fillmore Irrigation Company for years. When the time for settling the dispute involving the Owens Valley water came, he was caled as a mediator and the settlement was afterwards known as the "Goodenough decision." Edgar was one of the first stock holders of the Fillmore Herald newspaper. With J. G. Leavens of Santa Paula Edgar bought 720 acres near Piru, which was developed with apricots and citrus, in which he took active interest until his death. Edgar's private life affiliations were with the Woodmen of the World, Lions Club of Fillmore, and the Chamber of Commerce. Church leadership in the Presbyterian church gained him eldership in the local church and the elders sent him as a Delagate to the Santa Barbara Presbytery which elected him as a delagate to the Gneral Assembly in Des Moines, Iowa in 1906. Just thirty years later his son Paul was sent by the same church and Prebytery to Syracruse, New York.
More About Edgar Dwight Goodenough: Burial: Santa Paula, CA.
More About Edgar Dwight Goodenough and Martha Ione Akers: Marriage: February 13, 1890, Home of the Sespe Canyon, Fillmore, CA.
Children of Edgar Dwight Goodenough and Martha Ione Akers are:
+Paul Orsen Goodenough, b. March 03, 1894, Fillmore, CA, d. March 18, 1974, Santa Paula, CA.
Edgar Dwight Goodenough (b. August 05, 1868, d. July 24, 1938)
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