"Portrait and Biographical Record of Western Oregon, containing original sketches of many well known citizens of the past and present." Chicago: Chapman Pub. Co., 1909. p. 878. HENRY F. GOODSPEED Of the pioneer settlers around Tillamook no name is better known than that of Goodspeed. With it is associated practical and successful general farming, model dairying and high-grade stock-raising. Eli Goodspeed, founder of the family in this vicinity in 1876, set a criterion which agricultural aspirants might do well to follow, and his son, Henry F., has not only profited by his teachings, but with fresher enthusiasm and greater physical vigor, has grasped every opportunity for improving existing conditions. His dairy farm on the outskirts of the city with its memories of earlier days and the few residents and interests of what is now Tillamook, is one of the finest in this county, and one of the most valuable and productive. Eli Goodspeed was born in New York state, and as a young man lived in the wilds of both Illinois and Ohio. In the former state he married a native daughter, Emmarett Moffitt, and in Hancock county, Ohio, his son, Henry F., was born on a large farm, January 23, 1856. A few years later the family removed to Guthrie county, Iowa, from where they set out in 1863 for Oregon, making the trip overland in the short period of three months. After a year in Auburn, Eli Goodspeed rented a farm near Forest Grove, Washington county, and in 1872 settled near Salem, where he farmed until 1876. He then purchased the farm of one hundred and sixty acres upon a portion of which part of Tillamook has since been built, and this is still his home, the scene of his mature and well directed efforts. His wife is also still living, and rejoices in the fact that her two sons and one daughter have been spared to brighten her old age with their affection and sympathy. Coming to Oregon when he was seven years old, Henry F. Goodspeed has known no other home, and recalls little of his life in Ohio or Iowa. While working with his father in the early days he received a fair education in the country schools and with this as a solid foundation has devoted the leisure of later years to reading and study. At the age of seventeen, he worked for a year on a farm near Forest Grove, Washington county, returning afterward to his father's home, and in 1878 he married Lillian Miller, who was born in Marion county, Ore., in 1857, and whose father, George W. Miller, was an Oregon pioneer of 1853, but is now deceased. Mr. Goodspeed came into possession of his present farm of two hundred acres in 1891, and has since devoted himself to its cultivation, at the same time caring for the parental farm. He has a modern residence, and such improvements as have been suggested by his enterprise and progressiveness, and which facilitate and lighten work. He is a successful dairyman, and has about two hundred head of fine stock and milch cows. He is to be congratulated upon the convenient location of his farm, which permits of country isolation, but brings the diversions and activities of the town within easy reach. Mr. Goodspeed by no means confines himself and his good will to his immediate family circle, but rather promotes the well-being of his vicinity in every way in his power. He is a broad-minded politician who reflects credit upon his party because of the honesty of his life and his clean political service. Elected county clerk on the Republican ticket in 1880, he served continuously until 1886, and in 1895 he was chosen deputy sheriff, serving two years and a half. He was a member of the city council for one term. He is a man of fine character, generous as far as contributions to worthy causes is concerned, and withal is a supporter of education, morality and material advancement. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2012 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.