The Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Representative Men of Chicago, Milwaukee and the World's Columbian Exposition

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BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY AND PORTRAIT GALLERY.
rate in Wisconsin. This company has a narrow gauge logging railroad fifteen miles in length, extending from the Menominee River into the pine lands, greatly facilitating the work of trans¬ porting logs to the river.
Mr. Goodman was married October 31, 1878, to Miss Erna M. Sawyer, daughter of Hon. Philetus Sawyer, of Wisconsin. They have one child, Kenneth S., eight years old.
Mr. Goodman is a member of the Calumet, Union League, and Washington Park Clubs, and was one of the first members of the new Athletic Club   of   Chicago.     He is also a director of the
Royal Trust Company Bank; a director and one of the organizers of the Industrial Banks of Chicago, and a director in the Lumberman's Building and Loan Association.
He is a staunch Republican, but is not a politi¬ cian, his various enterprises claiming and receiv¬ ing his entire attention.
Mr. Goodman is personally very popular, and has ahvays enjoyed the highest confidence of his associates and acquaintances, and his business ability is everywhere recognized. He is a repre¬ sentative man in the lumber trade of Chicago, and has the confidence of all with whom he has to do.
JAMES VAN   INWAGEN,
CHICAGO,   ILL.
THE subject of this biography, who was born in Fairvllle, New York, on June i, 1837, ^^ a direct descendent, through his mother, of Joseph Jackson, who fought in numerous battles of the Revolution, especially distinguishing him¬ self in the battles of Bunker Hill and White Plains, and who was personally acquainted with General Washington.
In the early part of the present century, his grandparents settled in Wayne county. New York, where^his father, Anthony Van Inwagen, and his mother, Maria, 7iee Jackson, were born in 1809 and 1814 respectively.
James spent most of his early life in Buffalo, New^ York. He received his education in the public and high schools of that city. From 1850 to 1854, and while pursuing his studies, he was in the employ of the then well known grain com¬ mission house of Cutter and Coye. He began as ofifice boy, and gradually advanced to the position of book-keeper and confidential clerk.
In December, 1854, he removed to Chicago, being then but seventeen years of age, and on January i, 1855, he entered the service of Messrs. Reynolds, Ely and Company, who were at that time the leading wholesale grocers of the north¬ west, as assistant book-keeper. In the following year, 1856, he became a junior partner with his father, in the firm of Van Inwagen and Company, shipping and grain commission merchants.
In   1857 he  entered the service  of Samuel T.
Atwater, a veteran in inland insurance, and con¬ tinued with him many years, first as confidential clerk and afterward as partner; later the firm was dissolved, Mr. Atwater retiring from the business. While the partnership existed they organized the Traders' Insurance Company, and in 1867 Mr. Van Inwagen was elected Its secre¬ tary and manager. He continued in the insur¬ ance business, representing local and eastern companies, until the fire of October 9, 1871.
Mr. Van Inwagen had been a member of the Board of Trade since 1862 ; and after his return from a European trip, in 1872, he devoted him¬ self entirely to the grain trade. In 1875 he formed, with Mr. Charles D. Hamill, a partner¬ ship which continued eight years, and during its existence the firm of Van Inwagen and Hamill was one of the best known on the Board.
In 1883, ^^' Van Inwagen withdrew from the grain commission business, and after a recupera¬ tive trip abroad, in the following year he estab¬ lished the Tiffany Pressed Brick Company, of which he is now (1892) the president and general manager.
At Painesville, Ohio, in the year 1857, ^^- ^^^ Inwagen married Miss Mary L. Tiffany, daughter of Hon. Joel Tiffany ; five children, all born in Chicago, and four of whom are living, have blessed their union. The eldest son, Fred, is connected with his father in business. The only daughter,   Louise,   is   the   wife   of   Mr. Whitney