Charles Quincy Goodhue (October 2, 1835 – March 21, 1910)[1] was an American illustrator. Upon retiring as a marble-cutter in 1890, he began to sketch, from memory, scenes of 19th-century Portland, Maine, his hometown. His book, Portland Through Grandfather's Eyes, is now in the possession of the Maine Historical Society.
Charles Quincy Goodhue | |
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 Goodhue pictured around the turn of the 20th century | |
| Born | October 2, 1835 Portland, Maine, U.S. |
| Died | March 21, 1910 (aged 74) Portland, Maine, U.S. |
Early life
editGoodhue was born in Portland, Maine, in 1835, to Richard Shatswell Goodhue and Sarah Wendell Quincy.[2] He was a twin with brother Henry Williams Goodhue.
Career
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Goodhue found work as a marble-cutter at Enoch M. Thompson's Monument Works company on Portland's Preble Street, at its junction with Cumberland Street.[3] He also worked as a firefighter.[4]
When he retired, in 1890, he began to sketch, from memory or printed materials,[5] several scenes of Portland in the 1840s.[6] He put together a book, Portland Through Grandfather's Eyes, which was recreated in 1981 by the Maine Historical Society as Mr. Goodhue Remembers Portland: Scenes from the Mid-19th Century,[7][8] containing 23 of Goodhue's drawings and one by his great-granddaughter. Many of the buildings and streetscapes depicted in his sketches were destroyed in the Portland fire of 1866.[9][10]
Personal life
editIn 1858, Goodhue married Catherine O'Donnell, with whom he had six known children between 1859 and 1878, including Henrietta Quincy.[11]
Death
editGoodhue died in 1910, aged 74. He was interred in Portland's Evergreen Cemetery. His wife was buried beside him upon her death eight years later.
References
edit- ^ Coduri, Joseph E.; Bibliography, Committee for a New England (1989). New England: Additions to the Six State Bibliographies. University Press of New England. ISBN 978-0-87451-497-1.
- ^ Revolution, Sons of the American (1902). A National Register of the Society. p. 412.
- ^ Directory of Portland Including the City of South Portland and the Town of Cape Elizabeth. Portland Directory Company. 1914.
- ^ Daicy, Michael; Whitney, Don; Association, Portland Veteran Firemen's; Museum, The Portland Fire (2010-12-05). Portland's Greatest Conflagration: The 1866 Fire Disaster. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1-61423-210-0.
- ^ Lipfert, Nathan (2021-11-15). Two Centuries of Maine Shipbuilding. Down East Books. ISBN 978-1-60893-682-3.
- ^ "Goodhue drawing of Samuel Freeman house, 1895". Maine Memory Network. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
- ^ Shettleworth (Jr.), Earle G.; Barry, William David (1981). Mr Goodhue Remembers Portland: Scenes from the Mid-19th Century. Maine Historic Preservation Commission.
- ^ Jr, Leland J. Hanchett (2017-12-15). Connecting Maine's Capitals by Stagecoach. Pine Rim Publishing LLC. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-692-94135-5.
- ^ "Site of Fort Loyal, Portland, ca. 1840". Maine Memory Network. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
- ^ Paine, Lincoln (2018-06-19). Down East: An Illustrated History of Maritime Maine (2). Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. ISBN 978-0-88448-566-7.
- ^ Revolution, Daughters of the American (1905). Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Daughters of the American Revolution. p. 177.