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458 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
that enjoyed his plays. Many actors in his employ for years did not
even knoAv him- by sight. To doormen on Broadway he was knoAvn as
the "to-and-fro-nian," from his habit of sliding in and out. of theaters
unobtrusively.
lie AVII.S a man of unusually small stature, but a veritable human
dynamo of energy. He spent all of bis Avaking hours reading and
rehearsing plays or looking after the many details of producing. .Meals,
sleep and the ordinary necessities of life he considered as annoying
time-Avasters.
Recreation did not seem to enter into his calculations. Such rest
ns he got came Avhen he AVIIS at his home in White Plains, XOAV York.
His home there is more than 100 years old and lies far off the beaten
track. The nearest place 1o it is the famous training sanitarium known
ns "Muldoon's."
He AVIIS entirely Avithout intimates. He had a positive dislike for
meeting people, aud while* probably the most talked of man on the Rialto,
AA'as the least known to its habitues.
"A master producer," said George C. Tyler, noted theatrical man
of XCAV York, referring to Frohman. "If the stage needs anything it
needs men like Charles Frohiiian. lie AVIIS one of the few men in the
SIIOAV business AVIIO have ideals, and not only ideals but the courage to
adhere to them."
On March 20, 1882. Hie Register announced the death of James P.
(iiiy, AVIIO AA-as the first person AVIIO Avorked the City of Sandusky for any
large 'amount of money without any real benefit being derived, lie
received from the city $15,000 for erecting a shipyard in the east end
Avhere the Toll Company IIOAV is. The shipyard AVIIS never built.
The father of Judge Lewis Goodwin and Homer Goodwin was Dr.
Krastus GoodAvin. Avhose first Avife AVIIS Miss Dotia Gilbert, who was the
first Ayoinan who ever taught school in Milan ToAvnship and who met
Doctor GoodAvin first while he Avas in Hie vicinity of Sandusky as a
soldier of the War of 1812.
LeAvis II. GoodAvin sciwcd two terms as prohalc judge of Erie County
and had the folloAving creditable record in the War of the Rebellion:
Enlisted as a private. September 1. 1861. in the Forty-seventh Indiana
Infantry: elected captain Company 1!. October 1. 1861; served in the
Army of the Cumberland. December, 1861, to February, 1862: in the
Army of Tennessee until April. 1862: sei'A'ed in Missouri and in battles
around XCAV Madrid and Island No. 10 until June, 1862; promoted to
major October 1. 1862; served under Generals Ilalleck and Curtiss at
Memphis and Helena. Arkansas, from June, 1862. until April. 1S63:
served under General Grant in the Vicksburg campaign: in command of
regiment during spring campaign of 1863: severely Avonnded at battle
of Champion's Hill. May 16, 1863; furloughed on account of AVOUIHIS:
rejoined command at NCAV Orleans. September. 1863: served in Red
River campaign under General Banks in fall of 1863: commanded regiment
from fall of 1863 to February. 1864: remained in the Department
of the Gulf until close of the Avar: mustered oul at Memphis. Tennessee.