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From: "Maggie Stewart" <>
Subject: FRANKLIN CURTIS GOUDY
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 13:28:32 -0400

"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J.
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918) Vol. II

p. 155-156



FRANKLIN CURTIS GOUDY.

Franklin Curtis Goudy is an attorney at law who has won
prominence in his profession and at the same time has been an active
factor in political and fraternal circles. A native of Haynesville,
Ohio, he is a son of the late Abel Curtis Goudy, who was likewise born
in the Buckeye state and belonged to one of the old families there,
founded in Ohio by William Goudy, who was of Scotch descent. Abel C.
Goudy became a successful merchant of Ohio. His wife bore the maiden
name of Sciniette Vantilburg and was born in Ohio. She, too, belonged
to one of the old pioneer families of that state and came of Holland
Dutch ancestry. Members of the Vantilburg family participated in the
War of 1812.

The parents of Franklin C. Goudy died when he was a child. Thus,
early left an orphan, he was reared by his uncle, Francis Vantilburg,
and was educated in the public schools of Ohio and in Michigan
University. He followed teaching for two terms in the district schools
of Ohio, and later became assistant superintendent of the public
schools of Marion, Iowa. While thus engaged, he devoted the hours which
are usually termed leisure to the study of law, for he regarded
teaching merely as an Initial step to other professional activity, and
in 1878 he was admitted to practice at the bar of Kansas. In February,
1879, he arrived in Colorado, settling first at Colorado Springs, where
he remained for eighteen months. He then removed to Ouray, and. there
he practiced successfully for a time and also served for three years as
district attorney of the seventh judicial district. Subsequently he
removed to Gunnison, Colorado, where he continued in the practice of
law, and afterward he followed his profession in Montrose for two
years. In 1888 he arrived in Denver, where he has since remained,
devoting his attention throughout the intervening period of thirty
years to the general practice of law, although he has largely
specialized in irrigation law. He holds membership with the Denver Bar
Association, which has honored him with its presidency, and he also
belongs to the Colorado State Bar Association and to the American Bar
Association.

At Valley Falls, Kansas, on the 10th of December, 1879, Mr. Goudy
was united in marriage to Miss Ida J. Gephart, a native of Maryland and
a daughter of S. C. and Eliza (Beall) Gephart. Mr. and Mrs. Goudy
became parents of five children, of whom two sons are yet living:
Franklin B., who is a member of the legal profession and resides in
Denver; and Alfred H., who is at present in the United States military
service at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.

In politics Mr. Goudy has always been a stanch republican and in
1896 entered upon a two years' term as county attorney of Denver. He
has given stanch support to the party and its principles, putting forth
every effort in his power to advance its interests and promote its
success. He was a Blaine elector of 1884 and in 1900 was a candidate on
the republican ticket for the office of governor. He has done very
effective work along political and civic lines and he is also
prominently known in fraternal circles. A member of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, he was elected in September, 1916, for a term of
two years to the office of grand sire of the United States and Canada.
He has received all of the degrees of Scottish Rite Masonry up to and
including the thirty-second and in the York Rite is a member of Coronal
Commandery, No. 36, Knights Templar. Socially, he holds membership In
the Denver Athletic Club and the Lakewood Country Club. His life
measures up to high standards of manhood and citizenship and he is
justly accounted one of the foremost and honored residents of Denver.

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