JUDGE CHARLES C. GOODWIN

(1864-1866)

C. C. Goodwin was born in the Genesee Valley, New York, a few miles from Rochester on April 4, 1832. He received an academic education in Mathematics and Liberal Arts becoming proficient in both.

In 1852, Goodwin came to California and studied law under his brother, Jesse Goodwin, in Marysville, where he afterwards became a teacher at an academy. He practiced law and taught school until 1861, when he migrated to Nevada and built a quartz mill a few miles outside of Dayton, putting a small fortune into its construction. This business venture, however, would result in failure, following a flashflood that would destroy the mill and take the lives of six of the men Goodwin had employed. Selling the dismantled machinery of the mill he paid off the remaining men he had hired. Goodwin would ultimately take up many business ventures throughout Northern Nevada that would end in failure. Goodwin would continue to struggle until he was elected District Judge of Washoe County in 1864; he also began editing a newspaper in Reno that same year.

Leaving the bench in 1866, he eventually returned to the newspaper business in 1873 and from 1875 to 1880 he ran the Territorial Enterprise, a local newspaper, as editor-in-chief. Goodwin would leave the paper in 1880 to accept a position as editor-in-chief of the Salt Lake Tribune. A position he would hold for the next two decades. Judge Goodwin married Alice Maynard Goodwin of Carson City in San Francisco in 1877. The couple had two children: a son, James Goodwin, born in Nevada, and a daughter, Alice E. Goodwin, who was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Judge Goodwin died in Salt Lake City, Utah on August 25, 1917.