CHARLES W. GODDIN.
The name of Goddin appears among those of the earliest settlers of
Richmond city, the grandfather of Mr. Goddin being a resident here as
early as 1805 or 1810. This was John Goddin, who was for many
years high Constable of the City of Richmond. His son, father of
Charles W., was Wellington Goddin, who married Eliza P., daughter of
Frederick Winston of Hanover county, Virginia. Wellington Goddin
served as deputy under his father some years, and in 1848 or
1850 went into the real estate business. He was born in Richmond,
and died December 9, 1887, aged seventy-three years.
Charles W. was born in Richmond, October 29, 1853, and attended
private schools in the city until fitted for college. At the age of sixteen
years he left Richmond College, and served as deputy clerk of the county
court of Alexander county, Illinois, at Cairo, for two years. He was
then, and until 1873, cashier of the St. Louis and Iron Mountain R. R.,
at Belmont, Missouri, then returned to Richmond. He was for a time
deputy clerk of the chancery court of the city of Richmond, resigning;
was two or three years deputy collector of city taxes, resigning, then
three or four years assistant commissioner of revenue for the city of
Richmond until April 19, 1888, when he was elected clerk of the
chancery court of the city, on the duties of which office he entered July
1, 1888. Mr. Goddin is a member of St. Johns Lodge, No. 36, A. F. &
A. M.; of Napoleon Council, Legion of Honor; of Munford Lodge, Order
of Tonti; and a member of Moore Memorial Episcopal Church of Richmond,
as is his wife. He married in Richmond, July 11, 1876, Susie T.
Crutchfield, born in this city. Their children are Claudia B., Aylett W.,
Eliza W., George T., N. Stuart, Jennie C. Mrs. Goddin is a daughter
of George K. Crutchfield, who served several years as a member of the
Common Council, of Richmond, and two years, 1878-80, as a member
of the Virginia legislature. Her mother was Susan Terrill Trueheart,
who married a Mr. Waller, and surviving him married secondly Geo. K.
Crutchfield, about the year 1850. She is a daughter of Colonel Trueheart,
of "Liberty Hall," Hanover county, Virginia.
