Rev. Adolphus Clemens Good and Lydia B. Walker

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Husband Rev. Adolphus Clemens Good ^{1 2}

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           Born: 19 Dec 1856 - near Dayton, Wayne Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 2
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         Father: Abraham Good (1824-1907) 1 3
         Mother: Hannah C. Irwin (1821-1890) 1 2

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       Marriage: 21 Jun 1883 - Africa 2

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Wife Lydia B. Walker ²

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1 M Rev. Albert Irwin Good ²

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Adolphus Clemens Good

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“The Rev. Adolphus Clemens Good, Ph. D.-By Rev. John Gillispie, D. D. The Board of Foreign Missions was greatly shocked on Dec. 21st, by receiving a cable dispatch from Batanga, West Africa, announcing the death of this noble missionary, which occurred on Dec. 13th [1894]. The shock was all the greater because in his very last letter to the Board, Dr. Good had written from Efulen as follows: 'Neither Mr. Kerr nor I have ever had an hour's sickness here, indeed the only departures I ever had from perfect health have been due to bad food eaten on journeys. I have never detected the slightest signs of malaria.' The brief dispatch gave no hint as to the place or the cause of his death.
“Dr. Good was a child of the covenant, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Abram Good, and was born near Dayton, Armstrong county, Pa., Dec. 19th, 1856. When but a lad he made a public confession of his faith in Glade Run Presbyterian Church. He received his pre­paratory training in Glade Run Academy from 1873 to 1876, was graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in 1879, and from the Western Theological Seminary in 1882. His degree of Ph. D. was given by Washington and Jefferson College in 1890. In June 1882, he was ordained by the Presby­tery of Kittanning as an Evangelist, prepara­tory to sailing for Africa, having been previously appointed a missionary by the Board of Foreign Missions. He chose the Dark Continent as his field of labor mainly, because it was a hard field and because few at that time were found willing to enter it. He sailed for Africa September 18th, 1882, and on his arrival was as­signed to Baraka Station, near the mouth of the Gaboon River. Being a man of fine linguistic ability he soon mastered the Mpongwe language and ten months after landing preached his first sermon in the na­tive tongue. He was married June 21st, 1883, to Miss Lydia B. Walker, a missionary in connection with the Mission, who with a son ten years of age survives him.
“In January, 1884, Dr. Good was trans­ferred to the work on the Ogowe River, be­gun some eight years before, where his rare gifts of evangelizing and organizing found ample scope. With a noble spirit of self-sacrifice, which took no note of the severe physical and mental strain involved, he threw himself into every part of the work with characteristic energy. Itinerating along the river was his chief delight, carrying the Gos­pel to those sitting in darkness. In this work he was greatly blessed. For several years there was an almost continuous outpouring of the Spirit and hundreds of converts from heathenism were baptized. Largely through his instrumentality the one church existing in 1884 multiplied to four before his final removal from that field in 1893. During his last year or two on the Ogowe, when bur­dened with the care of the widely scattered churches, he also revised the entire New Tes­tament in Mpongwe, and the Hymn Book then in use, adding quite a number of hymns to the latter. During this period and also later, Dr. Good made some valuable contribu­tions to Natural History by sending many choice specimens to Chancellor Holland of the Western University of Pennsylvania. On this point the Chancellor writes: 'With the help of friends and natives he made during his stay on the African coast at various times collections of the birds, animals, and especi­ally of the insects of the region, which have given him an honored place among the mis­sionary explorers of the century. We are in­debted to him for our first knowledge of fully five hundred.' ”

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Notes: Marriage

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They were married on board the United States ship of war “Immeborg,” off Libraville, Gaboon, by Rev. W. C. Gault.

1 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 155.

2 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 786.

3 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 711.