Francis Adam Goodman (1827-1898) served the public most of his life as a politician and as a Union Army soldier. He was born March 3, 1827 in Rimbach, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, the son of Wilhelm and Mary (Albrecht) Gutmann. He died 1 February 1898 in Burnips, Michigan (Allegan County).
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