Jasper Goodwill
Businessman Goodwill was a transitional mayor between the longer terms of John T. David and Frank T. Norman having won a special election, Goodwill did not seek a full fouryear term in 1958.
Goodwills paternal grandfather, Captain Alfred Goodwill, a native of London, England and a member of the Confederate States Army, lived first in Claiborne Parish. After the death of his first wife, Elizabeth Ford Farley , Captain Goodwill moved in 1873 to Minden with his five children, including Jasper Goodwills father, Alfred Jasper Goodwill, and Captain Goodwills second wife, the former Ida Victoria Hill . Captain Goodwill in 1880 opened an 18,000square foot general store in Minden, a superstore believed at the time to be the largest such enterprise in the state. One could even purchase a casket and embalming fluid from Goodwills. Goodwill Street in Minden, which connects the Minden Cemetery with the Webster Parish Fairgrounds, is named for Captain Goodwill, as is the Goodwill Road near the former Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant in western Webster Parish. Jasper Goodwill was the second of seven children born in Minden to Alfred Jasper Goodwill and the former Sallie Fort .
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