Edward Samuel Goodnow
Illustration — Edward Samuel Goodnow advertisement for Goodnow Studio in Dayton, Kentucky in 1919 in Cartoons Magazine • Illustration — Goodnow Studio in April 1918 in Cleveland, Ohio • Illustration — Edward Samuel Goodnow in the WWI draft registration Edward Samuel Goodnow (October 6, 1874 – January 3, 1949) was a newspaper illustrator and author. He operated an art school for illustrators.
Also recorded as Edward S. Goodnow
Edward Samuel Goodnow

Cartoons Magazine · Goodnow Studio in April 1918 · Public domain
- Born
- 1874
- Died
- 1949
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- cartoonist
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He was born on October 6, 1874, in Missouri to Charles Edward Goodnow (1842–1916). One of his earliest jobs was working at the Laning Printing Company. On September 17, 1902, he married Lucille Nichols. By 1910 he was living in Euclid, Ohio. In 1914 he wrote Inside Facts about the Earnings, Methods and Requirements of the Newspaper Artist and Advertisement Illustrator: Hints and Helps for the Student of Practical Drawing. By 1918 he was living in Dayton, Kentucky but still working for the Cincinnati Times Star in Cincinnati, Ohio. He died on January 3, 1949, in Bethel, Ohio.
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Edward Samuel Goodnow (1874-1949) on September 12, 1918 in the WWI draft registration
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1874
Edward Samuel Goodnow was born in 1874.
1949
Edward Samuel Goodnow died in 1949.
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• Goodnow Studio of Practical Drawing, Bellevue, Ohio (1905) • Inside Facts about the Earnings, Methods and Requirements of the Newspaper Artist and Advertisement Illustrator: Hints and Helps for the Student of Practical Drawing (1914)
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- 1.Weidman, Jeffrey. Edward S. Goodnow. Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900: A Biographical Dictionary. 342. 2000. 9780873386166.
- 2.Drawing. Expert Instructions by Mail. Cartoons Magazine. 1918.
- 3.Edward Samuel Goodnow in the World War I draft registration. 1918.
- 4.Edward Samuel Goodnow. Inside Facts about the Earnings, Methods and Requirements of the Newspaper Artist and Advertisement Illustrator. 1914.
- 5.Edward Samuel Goodnow in the Ohio Death Index
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