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==Early Life==

==Early Life==

Goodnow was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1859.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zU80AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA360 Collier's New Encyclopedia]</ref> He graduated from Amherst College in 1879 and at law school 1882.  He and took post-graduate studies at [[Columbia University]], and overseas in Germany at the University of Berlin, and in Paris at the ''École Libre des Sciences Politiques''.<ref name=masters>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kYo-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA729 Masters of Achievement]</ref>

Goodnow was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1859,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zU80AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA360 Collier's New Encyclopedia]</ref> the son of Abel F. and Jane M. (Root) Goodnow.<ref name=contemporaries>[https://books.google.com/books?id=KOgUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA716 Men and Women of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries]</ref>  At a young age, he was educated in private schools.<ref name=contemporaries /> He graduated from Amherst College in 1879 and at law school 1882.  He and took post-graduate studies at [[Columbia University]], and overseas in Germany at the University of Berlin, and in Paris at the ''École Libre des Sciences Politiques''.<ref name=masters>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kYo-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA729 Masters of Achievement]</ref>

 

He was admitted to the New York Bar on graduation in 1882.<ref name=contemporaries />

==Education==

==Education==

==Administration==

==Administration==

Throughout his career in education and as an author, Goodnow built up a solid reputation as an authority on constitutional, administrative, and municipal law, and he was a frequent adviser in the legislative councils of New York State.<ref name=nie />

Throughout his career in education and as an author, Goodnow built up a solid reputation as an authority on constitutional, administrative, and municipal law, and he was a frequent adviser in the legislative councils of New York State.<ref name=nie /> He was a member of the Commission to Revise the of the City of New York, 1900-1901, and a member of the Commission of the National Federation on Public Ownership, 1905-1906. He was also a member of the Association Bar of the of City of New York.<ref name=contemporaries />

In 1913-1914 he acted as legal adviser to the Chinese Government.

In 1913-1914 he acted as legal adviser to the Chinese Government.