Rash's Surname Index
Notes for William Ernest GOODMAN
Biography from the "History of Blockley":
Dr. Henry Earnest Goodman, one of the six sons of Henry Goodman and Maria Earnest Goodman, was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, in 1859. After having graduated he was appointed a resident physician to the Philadelphia Hospital, and on completing his term, he received an appointment as resident physician to the Wills Eye Hospital, where he became interested in the specialty to which he devoted the greater part, of his time in life.
On July 23, 1861, he was made major and surgeon of the 28th Pennsylvania Infantry, discharged for appointment in the United States Volunteers, April 19, 1864; first lieutenant and assistant surgeon, United States Volunteers, February 26, 1864; major and surgeon, May 18, 1864; resigned and honorably discharged, November 3, 1865.
Lieutenant-Colonel and medical director, United States Volunteers (by assignment), February 25 , 1865 to April 1, 1865; Colonel and medical director, United States Volunteers (by assignment ), April 2, 1865, to June 10, 1865; Brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel, United States Volunteers, March 13, 1865, "for faithful and meritorious services during the war." Elected a companion, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, March 7, 1866, Class I, Insignia Number 201. Registrar of the Commandary, 1890 to 1896. Was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Army of the Cumberland, Army of the Potomac, and the Army of Georgia.
In 1866 he received the appointment as United States Examining Surgeon for Pensions. From 1866 to 1873 he was the port physician at Philadelphia. He was appointed by Mayor Warwick as a member of the Board of Civil Service Examiners.
Dr. Goodman was one of the founders of the Orthopaedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases, was one of the surgeons and the secretary of the medical staff, which position he held until his death. He was also one of the founders of the Maternity Hospital and the consulting surgeon.
He was a member of the Philadelphia Pathological Society, 1868; British Medical Association, 1868; Ophthalmological Society of Philadelphia; Philadelphia County Medical Society; Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania; American Medical Association; Pennsylvania Historical Society; Academy of Natural Sciences; International Ophthalmic Congress, at Heidelberg, 1868; International Medical Congress, 1876; American Public Health Association, 1866; Union League Club of Philadelphia; a Fellow of the College of Physicians, and a member of the Council of the Church of the Holy Communion.
In 1874 Dr. Goodman married the widow of John White Geary, a former governor of the State of Pennsylvania. On February 3, 1896, Dr. Goodman ran for a train at Tioga Station and reaching the train he fell dead on the platform of one of the cars. Dr. Goodman is buried in the Church yard of Trinity Lutheran Church, Germantown, of which his brother-in-law was pastor for fifty years.
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