University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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THOMAS WAKEFIELD GOODSPEED Thomas Wakefield Good'speed was born at Glenns Falls. New York. September 4, 1842. He studied at Knox College and was present when Lincoln and Douglas met in debate on the campus in 1858. In 1859 he became a member of the first Freshman class in the .old Chicago University, where he continued his studies until 1862. Here he par- ticipated actively in the college sports, being most proficient in baseball and wrestling. In 1862 he entered the University of Rochester as a Senior and was graduated with the degree of A. B., in 1863. At Rochester he became a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Being resolved to enter the ministry, Mr. Goodspeed took up theological work at once in the Rochester Theological Seminary. Mr. Goodspeed married Miss Mary Ellen Ten Brooke 01' Panton, Vermont, in 1866. and became pastor of the Vermont Street Baptist Church of Quincy, Iltinois, the same autumn. In 1872 he became the associate of his brother, Rev. Edgar J. Goodapeed. in the pastorate 0f the Second Baptist Church, Chicago. In 18?6, Mr. Goodspeed resigned to undertake the financial secretaryship 0f the Baptist Union Theological Seminary, then in great financial straits, and removed from Chicago to Morgan Park. After the collapse of the old University in 1886, Dr. Goodspeed shared somewhat actively in the counsels looking to a new and broader cdueational foundation in Chicago. In the next few years he was occupied by the tasks mentioned more fully on the follow- ing page. In 1897 he undertook if: addition the duties of University Registrar. After twenty-two years of service to the University, he retired from this position January 1, 1913, with the title of corresponding: secretary. It is: thir-ty-six years since he left the ministry, temporarily, as he thought, to help the Seminary over a crisis, and all of this time has been spent in the service of the Divinity School or the University. Dr. Goodspeed has on several occasions served as trustee of the University and of the Divinity School. Since 1898 he has been secretary of the Board of Trustees of Rush Medical College. For twenty years he has been very active in the work of the Hyde Park Baptist Church, of which he is a. member. He has spent his vacation month for the last thirty.' years among the woods of northern Wisconsin. In 1894 he found his way to the shores of Plum Lake, and there in the following summer, in company, with his nephew, began with his own hands to build a 10;: house upon a wooded island. To this island Dr. Goodspeed has ever since gone for his vacation, and on it and on the lakes and trails of that region he has spent some of his happiest hours. 11