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Like most men of professional life, at 22, 1905. Also of the Weldon household
least of the medical branch of professional
life, Dr. Weldon has held aloof from
active participation in political work. As
an interested townsman, he consented to
sit as selectman of Manchester during
the years 1903-04, but with that excep-
tion he has not taken public nor political
office, preferring to devote all his efforts
to his profession.
His affiliation with organizations bear-
ing on medical science and research
include membership in the following:
American Medical Association, the Med-
ical Society of the State of Connecticut,
and the Manchester Medical Society.
Fraternally, Dr. Weldon has been an Odd
Fellow, a Mason (blue lodge), and member
of the orders of Foresters, Maccabees
and Hibernians. Socially, he belongs to
the Manchester City Club, and religi-
ously, he and his family are members of
the St. James Roman Catholic Church.
Manchester.
Dr. Weldon is of retiring disposition,
modest, and liberal in contributions to
causes he has satisfied himself to be
worthy ; and he has done much for the
poor of Manchester, both in his profes-
sional capacity, without heed or sugges-
tion of remuneration, and in other channels
of charity. Latterly, advancing
years have caused him to become less
active in general practice than he form-
ally was.
On December 30, 1892, in St. James
Roman Catholic Church, Manchester, Dr.
Weldon was married to Annie Jessie
Dickinson Carter, daughter of Henry and
Betty (Ratcliff) Carter. Their children
are: Thomas Carter, born October 1,
1897; Elizabeth Lucile, born September
1, 1898; Annie May, born August, 1899;
Edith Arline and Ethel Lorraine, twins,
born December 22, 1900; Mary, born
May 18, 1903; and Margaret, born May
200
are Harriet and Dora Foss, adopted
daughters.
GOODRICH, Charles Clinton,
Active Man of Affairs.
As industries multiply, the need for
capable administrators grows in propor-
tion—as new forces are discovered, so
are openings for men who can apply
them—as commerce extends its scope,
the field for executives broadens—as
science provides substance, a correspond-
ing provision for their utilization is neces-
sary—as railroads push into virgin terri-
tories and trolley lines nose into isolated
districts, the demand for business and
professional pioneers increases—as in-
ventive imagination pours its dreams into
foundry moulds, the prospects of another
group of men are recast.
To inspect as one would any work of
genius the career of a man who has been
one of the leaders of a State in his own
line of industry is to inspect the mould
which has been made by the day to day
toil, mental and manual, of a great
worker; and it is to gain inspiration and
incentive for the creation of such another.
The career of Charles Clinton Goodrich,
vice-president and general manager of the
Hartford and New York Transportation
Company, has been identified with the
great business and transportation inter-
ests of the State of Connecticut for forty-
five years.
The Goodrich family, of which Mr.
Goodrich is a member, is one of the old-
est in Connecticut, and the tribe or family
existed in Great Britain at a very
early period of English history. The
name is obviously of Saxon origin, hav-
ing been spelled Godric in the beginning,
which spelling was gradually varied as
time altered the language to Godricus,