John B Good grave marker (Copied with permission). [34]
1823 John B Good, son of Jacob Good and Elizabeth Bowman, was born on June 18, in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He was reared as a farmer. [1] [2]
1828 Elizabeth Bowman was born in Bowmansville, Pennsylvania. [3] [4]
1841 John B. Good began to teach in the public schools in the eastern part of Lancaster County. He read law at his leisure. [5]
1847 John Good married Elizabeth Bowman in Reading, Pennsylvania. [6]
1847 John B Good was appointed Justice of the Peace at Bowmansville through 1858. As a Republican, John took considerable interest in local political undertakings. Here is an account of how J.B. Good was awarded the post of Justice of the Peace. Samuel Bowman, Esquire, was a justice and was appointed postmaster of the village where he lived, and the post-office and village were named Bowmansville after him. The two offices were incompatible, so this appointment deprived him (Samuel) of his justice's commission. The neighborhood felt this vacancy as a serious inconvenience, so in the spring of 1847 they elected his nephew, J. B. Good, Esq., as a justice of the peace. The same year John B Good built the dwelling and office on the northeast corner of the cross-roads, where he lived (being twice re-elected) as a justice of the peace, surveyor, and conveyancer until he moved to Lancaster in April, 1858. [7]
c 1848 John B Good built a substantial stone house on the northeast corner of the crossroads in Bowmansville. The first house in the town was built by Samuel Bowman (born 1789) "on the southeast corner where the road leading from Reamstown to the Plow Tavern crossed State Road.". "Now the village contains over 100 houses, many of beautiful modern design, four churches..." (written 1896). [8]
1850 John B Good (age 27, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Elizabeth Good (age 22), M Louisa Good (age 2), and Wm S Duckman (age 20). [9] [10]
1858 John went to Lancaster to practice law.
1859 John B Good was listed in the Lancaster directory as a clerk. His home was at W Orange n Mulberry.
1860 "The first political meeting ever held in the village (Bowmansville) was a Lincoln meeting in 1860. The speech making took place from from the porch of John B Good's house opposite the hotel. The New Holland band was present …". This extract is from an article that explains how Bowmansville changed from being influenced by supporters of the Confederacy to being a supporter of the Union cause. [11]
1860 John B Guth (age 36, born in Pennsylvania), clerk, lived in Lancaster, North West Ward, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Elizabeth Guth (age 32), and Maria L Guth (age 12). [12] [13]
1863 John B Good of W King St was taxed for legacies as the administrator of Henry Snyder. [14]
1863 In June, John B Good, age 39, was listed as subject to military duty in North west ward of Lancaster County. [15]
1864 John was admitted to the Lancaster bar and practiced law until his death. He was considered a practical and conscientious exponent of legal science, and had a large and appreciative clientele. [16]
1864 In December, John B Good of E K (East King Street) was taxed for 9 mon[ths] as a lawyer. [17]
1865 John B Good became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was ever after a loyal supporter of that denomination. Mr. Good and family were members of the Methodist Church and he took a great interest in church work. At the time of his death he had held the office of class-leader since 1866 and of exhorter since 1867. [18]
1865 John B Good of Orange, PA, was taxed by the IRS for 2 gold watches [19]. In May, John B Good of E.K. (East King) was taxed as a lawyer [20]. In January John B Good, Exor, was taxed at S Queen for legacies [21].
1866 John B Good, a lawyer of East King Street, was taxed by the IRS for income over $1000 [22]. John B Good of Orange St, PA, was taxed by the IRS in May for 2 gold watches and income over $600 [23]. On 14 March, John B Good of Orange St was taxed as an administrator for legacies [24].
1870 John B Good (age 47, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Lancaster Ward 5, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Elizabeth Good (age 43), Geo A Marshall (age 23), Maria L Marshall (age 23), and Barbara Fisher (age 30). [25] [26]
1872 John B Good was president of the first lay conference for the church held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in March. [27]
1876 John B Good was an alderman of Lancaster City. [28]
1879 John B Good of Lancaster was secretary to the Board of control of the Landisville Campmeeting Association. [29]
1880 John B Good (age 56, born in Pennsylvania, married), lawyer, lived on West Orange Street in Lancaster Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Maria Good (age 52), Mary Good (age 8), son-in-law George Marshall (age 33), Maria Marshall (age 32), and grand-daughter Clara Marshall (age 4/12). John B Good's parents were both born in Pennsylvania. John B. Good's occupation was lawyer. [30] [31]
1883 John B Good wrote a History of Brecknock Township [32]
1884 John B Good died on September 6, and was buried at the Greenwood (Lancaster) Cemetery in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [33]
1886 Elizabeth Good, widow, Maria Marshall, and George Marsh of the city of Lancaster sold two lots on Marion Street in Lancaster City to Mary Musser, wife of Frank G Musser on March 25. The land was owned by John B Good, who died September 6, 1884 and left widow Elizabeth and issue Maria L Marshall. [35]
1886 Elizabeth Good, widow, Maria Marshall, and George Marsh of the city of Lancaster sold land to Samuel Wise of Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County for $226 on April 8. Two tracts of land were adjacent to lands of John B Good, John Weis, Ulrich Burkholder, Daniel Bowman, Samuel O Jacobs deceased, and Isaac G Bowman. The larger tract was part of land granted by Isaac Bordenhart to John B Good Esq in 1866. John B Good died September 6, 1884 intestate leaving widow Elizabeth and issue to wit Mary L wife of George A Marshall. The deed was signed by Elizabeth Good, Maria L Marshall, and George A Marshall. [36]
1890 Documents from the probate records of sister Lydia Huber and Christian Huber named collateral heirs of both Christian Huber and Lydia Huber. [37] The account of the estate of Lydia Huber named Lydia's brothers and sisters and their heirs. Dated April 29. [38] The heirs of Lydia Huber included deceased brother John B. Good, his widow Elizabeth and daughter Maria L. Marshal, wife of George Marshal.
1900 Elizabeth Good, widow [4 children, 2 living], born Jan 1828, lived on Orange Street in Lancaster County with family of daughter Maria L Marshall (born Jan 1848). [39] Elizabeth did not live with them in 1910. [40]
1902 Elizabeth B Bowman Good died on October 17 and was buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Elizabeth B Bowman Good was born on January 7, 1828. [41] [42]
1920 Mrs Maria L Marshall died on June 28 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She was born on January 31, 1850, in Bowmansville Larue County, Pennsylvania, daughter of John B Good and Elizabeth Bowman. [47]
Research Notes:
"Mrs Good lived in her pleasant home with her daughter, Eleanor M, her other daughter, Clara L, being the wife of Leonard Lewis, a machinist of Lancaster." [48]
"379.—John B. Good 107, b. in Brecknock Twp.. Lancaster Co., June 18. 1823; d. ; m. in 1847, Elizabeth Bowman, daughter of Daniel Bowman and Elizabeth Good (see No. 27). John Pi. Good taught in the public schools in the eastern part of Lancaster Co., was appointed Justice of the peace at Bowmansville in 1847. which position be held until 1858 when he went to Lancaster where he practiced law up till his death. Mr. Good and family were members of the Methodist Church and be took a great interest in church work. Issue: 1018 Elnora; 1019 Clara." [49]
A biosketch [50] reports:
John B Good for twenty years a member of the Bar at Lancaster, was born June 18, 1823, in Brecknock township Lancaster Co., Pa., and died in Lancaster Sept 6, 1884 in his sixty-second year. He was a son of Jacob and Elizabeth Bowman Good, who had six children, of whom John B was the eldest. Lydia, the eldest daughter, and second child, married Jacob Hoover, of Berks county, Pa., and is now deceased; Elizabeth became the wife of Mr Husser, and is deceased; Sarah the wife of Peter Meisser died in Lancaster county; Mary died unmarried, in Lancaster county; and Nancy also died in this county. The father was a cabinet maker by trade. In early life Mr. Good was reared to farming, and in connection therewith managed to secure an excellent education. At the age of eighteen, he began to teach schoo,l and was thus engaged for several years, in the meantime devoting his leisure to the reading of law. He was admitted to the Lancaster Bar in 1864, and practiced continuously up to the time of his death. He was considered a practical and conscientious exponent of legal science and had a large and appreciative clientele. For many years he was before the public as a writer for various periodicals, possessing a facile pen and apt descriptive powers. As a Republican he took considerable interest in local political undertakings, and among other offices, maintained with credit, filled that of justice of the peace from 1847 to 1858. In February 1865, he became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was ever after. At the time of his death, he had held the office of classleader leader since 1866, and of exhorter since 1867. He was president of the first lay conference held in Philadelphia, Pa., in March 1872. In Reading Pa in 1847, Mr Good married Elizabeth Bowman, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Good Bowman, and granddaughter of Christ and Elizabeth Bowman, the former a miller of Berks county, Pa. Mrs Good was born in Bowmansville, Lancaster Co., Pa., which town was named after her father, who was a farmer in the county, and who died in 1871 at the age of seventy nine years. The mother was a native of Berks county, Pa., and died in 1873, at the age of seventy nine. The parents are buried in Bowmansville cemetery. They had the following named children, of whom Mrs John B Good was the last survivor; Isaac; Moses; Elias; Lovina, wife of John H Good of Brecknock township; Nancy, wife of Christ Gehman; Elizabeth; Mrs John B Good; and Leah, wife of Solomon Ott. Mrs Good lived in her pleasant home with her daughter, Eleanor M., her other daughter, Clara L., being the wife of Leonard Lewis, a machinist of Lancaster.
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[20] U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[21] U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[22] U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[23] U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
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[34] Find A Grave Memorial 39165587, [FindAGrave].
[35] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Deed Z12-529, [FHLCatalog].
[36] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Deed Q12-204, [FHLCatalog].
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