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 ==Biography==
-Goodwill left England after the death of his parents, John and Susannah Goodwill. in the 1850 census, he was listed as a tailor and boarder in [[Shreveport]] in Caddo Parish. He was later a clerk in a store in Webster Parish. He fought in the [[Confederate States of America]] Army during the [[American Civil War]], during which he acquired the title "[[Captain]]" which followed him for the remainder of his life. From his first wife,  Elizabeth Ford Farley (1834-1869), he had five children, the oldest of which was Alfred Jasper Goodwill (1855-1937), the father of [[Jasper Goodwill]], who from 1955 to 1958  was the [[mayor]]. The other children were Alice G. Bryce (1858-1947), Edgar (1862-1913), Kate l (1864-1879), and Christopher (1867-1901). In 1873, four years after Elizabeth's death, Captain Goodwill relocated from Claiborne Parish, where he was a large property owner, to Minden. He was joined by his second wife, the former Ida Victoria Hill (1838-1937), a native of [[Arkansas]]. In 1882, Goodwill opened an 18,000-square foot general store in Minden, a "superstore" believed at the time to be the largest such enterprise in the state. One could purchase from this store groceries, candies, pharmaceutical supplies, dry goods, hardware, a buggies, and even a coffin and embalming fluid.<ref name=findagrave/><ref name=agan>John Agan, "Captain Alfred Goodwill's Descendant ([[Mike Foster|Murphy James "Mike" Foster, Jr.]]) Makes News," ''[[Minden Press-Herald]],'' November 3, 1995.</ref>
+Goodwill left England after the death of his parents, John and Susannah Goodwill. In the 1850 census, he was listed as a tailor and boarder in [[Shreveport]] in Caddo Parish. He was later a clerk in a store in Webster Parish. He fought in the [[Confederate States of America]] Army during the [[American Civil War]], during which he acquired the title "[[Captain]]" which followed him for the remainder of his life. From his first wife,  Elizabeth Ford Farley (1834-1869), he had five children, the oldest of which was Alfred Jasper Goodwill (1855-1937), the father of [[Jasper Goodwill]], who from 1955 to 1958  was the [[mayor]]. The other children were Alice G. Bryce (1858-1947), Edgar (1862-1913), Kate l (1864-1879), and Christopher (1867-1901). In 1873, four years after Elizabeth's death, Captain Goodwill relocated from Claiborne Parish, where he was a large property owner, to Minden. He was joined by his second wife, the former Ida Victoria Hill (1838-1937), a native of [[Arkansas]]. In 1882, Goodwill opened an 18,000-square foot general store in Minden, a "superstore" believed at the time to be the largest such enterprise in the state. One could purchase from this store groceries, candies, pharmaceutical supplies, dry goods, hardware, a buggies, and even a coffin and embalming fluid.<ref name=findagrave/><ref name=agan>John Agan, "Captain Alfred Goodwill's Descendant ([[Mike Foster|Murphy James "Mike" Foster, Jr.]]) Makes News," ''[[Minden Press-Herald]],'' November 3, 1995.</ref>
 Goodwill served on the Minden Railroad and Compress Company, which pushed successfully for the construction of a railroad link with the main depot, called Lane's Station, in Sibley,  a community south of Minden. Without this link, Minden could have been seriously harmed economically.<ref name=findagrave/> The Goodwill Building had been constructed on the premise that the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railway would stop in Minden. The line was instead absorbed by the Illinois Central Railroad, and the operation was reduced in scope. The Goodwill Building, which contained a 169-foot row of stores, was in time subdivided into seven units. The downtown structure was burned to the ground in the fire which swept through Minden in May 1933.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rE4WBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA5&lpg=PA5&dq=alfred+goodwill&source=bl&ots=2zn1bDLEl6&sig=j2ZJ9GrITej1qWSqVGW_I_FiVeM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=otQBVZL_GYWvggSN4YHoDQ&sqi=2&ved=0CE4Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=alfred%20goodwill&f=false|title=Minden 1933|date=2013|publisher=Lulu.com|author=John Agan|page=5|isbn=978-1-300-92634-4|accessdate=December 9, 2020}}</ref> As early as 1859, Goodwill served periodically on the Minden City Council.<ref>"Webster Parish History," The Southern Publishing Company, 1890.</ref>

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 {{Infobox person
 | name=Alfred Goodwill
-(Opened the largest general store in Louisiana in 1880)
+(Opened the largest general store in the state of Louisiana in 1880)
 | nationality=[[England|English]]-[[United States|American]]
 | birth_date=November 7, 1830

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 ==Biography==
-Goodwill left England after the death of his parents, John and Susannah Goodwill. in the 1850 census, he was listed as a tailor and boarder in [[Shreveport]] in Caddo Parish]]. He was later a clerk in a store in Webster Parish. He fought in the [[Confederate States of America]] Army during the [[American Civil War]], during which he acquired the title "[[Captain]]" which followed him for the remainder of his life. From his first wife,  Elizabeth Ford Farley (1834-1869), he had five children, the oldest of which was Alfred Jasper Goodwill (1855-1937), the father of [[Jasper Goodwill]], who from 1955 to 1958  was the [[mayor]]. The other children were Alice G. Bryce (1858-1947), Edgar (1862-1913), Kate l (1864-1879), and Christopher (1867-1901). In 1873, four years after Elizabeth's death,  Captain Goodwill relocated from Claiborne Parish, where he was a large property owner, to Minden. He was joined by his second wife, the former Ida Victoria Hill (1838-1937), a native of [[Arkansas]]. In 1882, Goodwill opened an 18,000-square foot general store in Minden, a "superstore" believed at the time to be the largest such enterprise in the state. One could purchase from this store groceries, candies, pharmaceutical supplies, dry goods, hardware, a buggies, and even a coffin and embalming fluid.<ref name=findagrave/><ref name=agan>John A. Agan, "Captain Alfred Goodwill's Descendant ([[Mike Foster|Murphy James "Mike" Foster, Jr.]]) Makes News," ''[[Minden Press-Herald]],'' November 3, 1995.</ref>
+Goodwill left England after the death of his parents, John and Susannah Goodwill. in the 1850 census, he was listed as a tailor and boarder in [[Shreveport]] in Caddo Parish. He was later a clerk in a store in Webster Parish. He fought in the [[Confederate States of America]] Army during the [[American Civil War]], during which he acquired the title "[[Captain]]" which followed him for the remainder of his life. From his first wife,  Elizabeth Ford Farley (1834-1869), he had five children, the oldest of which was Alfred Jasper Goodwill (1855-1937), the father of [[Jasper Goodwill]], who from 1955 to 1958  was the [[mayor]]. The other children were Alice G. Bryce (1858-1947), Edgar (1862-1913), Kate l (1864-1879), and Christopher (1867-1901). In 1873, four years after Elizabeth's death, Captain Goodwill relocated from Claiborne Parish, where he was a large property owner, to Minden. He was joined by his second wife, the former Ida Victoria Hill (1838-1937), a native of [[Arkansas]]. In 1882, Goodwill opened an 18,000-square foot general store in Minden, a "superstore" believed at the time to be the largest such enterprise in the state. One could purchase from this store groceries, candies, pharmaceutical supplies, dry goods, hardware, a buggies, and even a coffin and embalming fluid.<ref name=findagrave/><ref name=agan>John Agan, "Captain Alfred Goodwill's Descendant ([[Mike Foster|Murphy James "Mike" Foster, Jr.]]) Makes News," ''[[Minden Press-Herald]],'' November 3, 1995.</ref>
 Goodwill served on the Minden Railroad and Compress Company, which pushed successfully for the construction of a railroad link with the main depot, called Lane's Station, in Sibley,  a community south of Minden. Without this link, Minden could have been seriously harmed economically.<ref name=findagrave/> The Goodwill Building had been constructed on the premise that the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railway would stop in Minden. The line was instead absorbed by the Illinois Central Railroad, and the operation was reduced in scope. The Goodwill Building, which contained a 169-foot row of stores, was in time subdivided into seven units. The downtown structure was burned to the ground in the fire which swept through Minden in May 1933.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rE4WBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA5&lpg=PA5&dq=alfred+goodwill&source=bl&ots=2zn1bDLEl6&sig=j2ZJ9GrITej1qWSqVGW_I_FiVeM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=otQBVZL_GYWvggSN4YHoDQ&sqi=2&ved=0CE4Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=alfred%20goodwill&f=false|title=Minden 1933|date=2013|publisher=Lulu.com|author=John Agan|page=5|isbn=978-1-300-92634-4|accessdate=December 9, 2020}}</ref> As early as 1859, Goodwill served periodically on the Minden City Council.<ref>"Webster Parish History," The Southern Publishing Company, 1890.</ref>

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 In his second marriage Goodwill had four children, Olive, Harry (1878-1916), Susan, and Donald (1881-1966). Olive Goodwill (born c. 1875; date of death missing) married [[Robert Roberts, Jr.]] (born 1872; date of death also missing), an [[attorney]] who was the mayor of, first, Farmerville in Union Parish, and then Minden (1905-1906), a state representative for Webster Parish (1908-1914), an appeal court judge and a state district judge in Minden, and finally an attorney in private practice in Shreveport. Their daughter, Olive Roberts (1904-1990),<ref>[[Henry E. Chambers]], "Robert Roberts, Jr.", ''A History of Louisiana'', Vol. 2 ([[Chicago]] and [[New York City]], American Historical Society, Inc., 1925), pp. 21-22.</ref> married Murphy J. Foster, a [[sugar]] planter in St. Mary Parish and a son of Governor Murphy J. Foster, Sr. The second Olive Roberts (1904-1990) was the mother of former Governor Mike Foster. Captain Goodwill was hence the maternal great-grandfather of the second Governor Foster; Alfred Jasper Goodwill, the great-uncle, and Jasper Goodwill, a cousin.<ref name=agan/>
-Ida Goodwill and her stepson, Alfred Jasper Goodwill, died three days apart in March 1937, more than thirty years after the death of their husband and father, respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=57013334|title=Ida Victoria Hill Goodwill|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=December 9, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=55896273|title=Funeral Services for A. J. Goodwill Held Here Thursday: Member of Pioneer Family Dies Wednesday of Heart Attack|publisher=''The Minden Democrat'' through Findagrave.com|date=March 12, 1937|page=1 and 8|accessdate=December8, 2020}}</ref>
+Ida Goodwill and her stepson, Alfred Jasper Goodwill, died three days apart in March 1937, more than thirty years after the death of their husband and father, respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=57013334|title=Ida Victoria Hill Goodwill|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=December 9, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=55896273|title=Funeral Services for A. J. Goodwill Held Here Thursday: Member of Pioneer Family Dies Wednesday of Heart Attack|publisher=''The Minden Democrat'' through Findagrave.com|date=March 12, 1937|page=1 and 8|accessdate=December 8, 2020}}</ref>
 Goodwill Street in Minden, which connects the Minden Cemetery with the Webster Parish Fairgrounds, and Goodwill Road near the former Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant in western Webster Parish, are named for Captain Goodwill.

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 Goodwill left England after the death of his parents, John and Susannah Goodwill. in the 1850 census, he was listed as a tailor and boarder in [[Shreveport]] in Caddo Parish]]. He was later a clerk in a store in Webster Parish. He fought in the [[Confederate States of America]] Army during the [[American Civil War]], during which he acquired the title "[[Captain]]" which followed him for the remainder of his life. From his first wife,  Elizabeth Ford Farley (1834-1869), he had five children, the oldest of which was Alfred Jasper Goodwill (1855-1937), the father of [[Jasper Goodwill]], who from 1955 to 1958  was the [[mayor]]. The other children were Alice G. Bryce (1858-1947), Edgar (1862-1913), Kate l (1864-1879), and Christopher (1867-1901). In 1873, four years after Elizabeth's death,  Captain Goodwill relocated from Claiborne Parish, where he was a large property owner, to Minden. He was joined by his second wife, the former Ida Victoria Hill (1838-1937), a native of [[Arkansas]]. In 1882, Goodwill opened an 18,000-square foot general store in Minden, a "superstore" believed at the time to be the largest such enterprise in the state. One could purchase from this store groceries, candies, pharmaceutical supplies, dry goods, hardware, a buggies, and even a coffin and embalming fluid.<ref name=findagrave/><ref name=agan>John A. Agan, "Captain Alfred Goodwill's Descendant ([[Mike Foster|Murphy James "Mike" Foster, Jr.]]) Makes News," ''[[Minden Press-Herald]],'' November 3, 1995.</ref>
-Goodwill served on the Minden Railroad and Compress Company, which pushed successfully for the construction of a railroad link with the main depot, called Lane's Station, in Sibley,  a community south of Minden. Without this link, Minden could have been seriously harmed economically.<ref name=findagrave/> The Goodwill Building had been constructed on the premise that the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railway would stop in Minden. The line was instead absorbed by the Illinois Central Railroad, and the operation was reduced in scope. The Goodwill Building, which contained a 169-foot row of stores, was in time subdivided into seven units. The downtown structure was burned to the ground in the fire which swept through Minden in May 1933.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rE4WBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA5&lpg=PA5&dq=alfred+goodwill&source=bl&ots=2zn1bDLEl6&sig=j2ZJ9GrITej1qWSqVGW_I_FiVeM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=otQBVZL_GYWvggSN4YHoDQ&sqi=2&ved=0CE4Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=alfred%20goodwill&f=false|title=Minden 1933|date=2013|publisher=Lulu.com|author=John Agan|page=5|isbn=978-1-300-92634-4|accessdate=March 12, 2015}}</ref> As early as 1859, Goodwill served periodically on the Minden City Council.<ref>"Webster Parish History," The Southern Publishing Company, 1890.</ref>
+Goodwill served on the Minden Railroad and Compress Company, which pushed successfully for the construction of a railroad link with the main depot, called Lane's Station, in Sibley,  a community south of Minden. Without this link, Minden could have been seriously harmed economically.<ref name=findagrave/> The Goodwill Building had been constructed on the premise that the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railway would stop in Minden. The line was instead absorbed by the Illinois Central Railroad, and the operation was reduced in scope. The Goodwill Building, which contained a 169-foot row of stores, was in time subdivided into seven units. The downtown structure was burned to the ground in the fire which swept through Minden in May 1933.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rE4WBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA5&lpg=PA5&dq=alfred+goodwill&source=bl&ots=2zn1bDLEl6&sig=j2ZJ9GrITej1qWSqVGW_I_FiVeM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=otQBVZL_GYWvggSN4YHoDQ&sqi=2&ved=0CE4Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=alfred%20goodwill&f=false|title=Minden 1933|date=2013|publisher=Lulu.com|author=John Agan|page=5|isbn=978-1-300-92634-4|accessdate=December 9, 2020}}</ref> As early as 1859, Goodwill served periodically on the Minden City Council.<ref>"Webster Parish History," The Southern Publishing Company, 1890.</ref>
 In his second marriage Goodwill had four children, Olive, Harry (1878-1916), Susan, and Donald (1881-1966). Olive Goodwill (born c. 1875; date of death missing) married [[Robert Roberts, Jr.]] (born 1872; date of death also missing), an [[attorney]] who was the mayor of, first, Farmerville in Union Parish, and then Minden (1905-1906), a state representative for Webster Parish (1908-1914), an appeal court judge and a state district judge in Minden, and finally an attorney in private practice in Shreveport. Their daughter, Olive Roberts (1904-1990),<ref>[[Henry E. Chambers]], "Robert Roberts, Jr.", ''A History of Louisiana'', Vol. 2 ([[Chicago]] and [[New York City]], American Historical Society, Inc., 1925), pp. 21-22.</ref> married Murphy J. Foster, a [[sugar]] planter in St. Mary Parish and a son of Governor Murphy J. Foster, Sr. The second Olive Roberts (1904-1990) was the mother of former Governor Mike Foster. Captain Goodwill was hence the maternal great-grandfather of the second Governor Foster; Alfred Jasper Goodwill, the great-uncle, and Jasper Goodwill, a cousin.<ref name=agan/>

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 [[Robert Roberts, Jr.]] (son-in-law)
 |religion=[[Methodist]]
-|branch=[[Confederate Army]]
+|branch=[[Confederate States of America]] Army
 |rank=[[Captain]]}}

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 Donald Goodwill<br>
 '''Parents''':<br>
-John and Susannah Goodwill
+John and Susannah Goodwill<br>
 '''Relatives''':<br>
 [[Mike Foster|Murphy James Foster, Jr.]]<br> (great-grandson)<br>

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 (2) Ida Victoria Hill Goodwill<br>
 '''Children''':<br>
-From first marriage:<br>
+'''From first marriage''':<br>
 Alfred Jasper Goodwill<br>
 Alice Goodwill Bryce<br>
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 Kate Goodwill<br>
 Christopher Goodwill<br>
-From second marriage:<br>
+'''From second marriage''':<br>
 Olive Goodwill Roberts<br>
 Harry G. Goodwill<br>