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Author
Chicago, University of, Library
Title
Guide to the Thomas W. Goodspeed Papers 1865-1927
Series
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Centers, Finding Aids
Publisher
University of Chicago Library
City
Chicago
Date
2006
Original Date
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Thomas Goodspeed is the father of Edgar Goodspeed. The two were owners of Paradise (late Goodspeed) Island in Plum Lake. The Finding Aid biography includes the following: "Goodspeed was full of energy and vigor even as he aged. He continued cultivating his rustic home [on Paradise Island] in the Wisconsin woods every summer and researching in conjunction."

Libraries
  • Bookwood Historical Collection, Star Lake
URL (full text)
https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.GOODSPEEDTW