An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., 
The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1893, pages 475-476

	SYLVESTER GOODNIGHT, Auditor of Clarke county, Washington, was born in
Monroe county, Missouri, January 28, 1865, a son of William and Nancy (Bybee)
Goodnight, natives also of that State. The ancestors of both sides were among
the early colonial settlers of Kentucky. The family removed to Oregon in 1865,
and two years later located in Clarke county, this State, where our subject
attended school, and also graduated at the State Normal School at Monmouth,
Oregon, in the class of 1888. For the following three years Mr. Goodnight was
engaged in teaching in that State, and then followed the same occupation in
Clarke county, Washington. His political views are Democratic, and in November,
1892, he was elected County Auditor of this county. Although by no means a
politician, Mr. Goodnight is a stanch advocate of public enterprises, and is
ever ready to assist in all that are beneficial to the city or county.
	June 13, 1888, he was united in marriage to Miss Ida M. Smith, a native of
Oregon and a daughter of R.M. Smith, a pioneer of Polk county. Our subject and
wife have one child, Lillian M.

Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in October 2003 by Jeffrey L. Elmer

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