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Goodwillie, Thomas, D.D.

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a Presbyterian minister, was born in Barnet, Caledonia County, Vermont, September 27, 1800. His parents were natives of Scotland, and emigrated to the United States in 1788. He graduated from Dartmouth College, N.H., in 1820. In 1823 was licensed by Cambridge Presbytery, and in 1826 installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Barnet. He was a man of large experience, and an accomplished scholar. He travelled extensively through Europe in order to recuperate his health, as well as to study the workings of Catholicism. He was a life member of the American Bible Society. Dr. Goodwillie died February 11, 1867. He possessed good natural ability, carefully cultivated and improved by study and intercourse with men. See Wilson, Presb. Hist Almanac, 1868, page 265.