"John Goodrich, of Glastonbury, Connecticut, was first a member of Dartmouth College, and did not enter Yale until July 9—two months before graduation. He was the eldest child of John Goodrich, and grandson of David and Sarah (Edwards) Goodrich, of Glastonbury, where he was born on July 3, 1753. His mother was Prudence, second daughter of Colonel Elizur and Ruth (Wright) Talcott, of Glastonbury.
He remained in New Haven after graduation, and here married on July 10, 1779, Eunice, the eldest child of Andrew and Sarah (Nichols) Thompson, of Stratford, Connecticut, and widow of Dr. David Atwater, a noted apothecary of New Haven, who was killed by the British at Danbury in April, 1777. One of her sons by her first marriage was graduated at Yale in 1797.
In 1784 he became a member of the County Medical Society, but it is uncertain whether he ever engaged in practice. In 1786 and for a few years later he kept a drug-store in his dwelling-house on Chapel Street, on the site now occupied by the Quinnipiack Club. He seems also to have kept an inn, to have had an appointment as constable, and by the year 1793 to have become a lawyer.
He died in New Haven on January 16, 1800, in his 47th year. His estate proved to be insolvent.
His children were three daughters and four sons. Only two of the daughters and the eldest son arrived at maturity. A granddaughter married the Rev. L. Smith Hobart (Yale 1837).
