C. B. GOODWIN
Bio-Sawyers
Surnames: SCHULTE, ROBINSON
A very efficient public official is C. B. Goodwin, city
manager of San Jose. A native son, he was born in Santa Clara County on
August 6, 1889, the son of William and Clara (Schulte) Goodwin. Both of
these parents enjoyed enviable family ties; and on the maternal side,
the grandparents, as early settlers, did much in their time and sphere
to prepare the way for those coming after them. Our subject attended the
grammar and high schools of San Jose, graduating from the latter
institution in 1908, and then he went to Stanford University. There he
had every advantage in studying civil engineering, and in December,
1912, he was the recipient of the A. B. degree. He also was given his
diploma as a civil engineer.
Taking up his professional work in earnest, Mr. Goodwin went to San
Francisco and for two and a half years was with H. J. Brunnier, the
well-known consulting structural engineer; and after that, for another
two and a half years, he was with the Federal Construction Company,
general contractors. His return to San Jose marked his entrance into
municipal work here as the assistant city engineer; and in September,
1918, he was made city engineer, a responsibility he faithfully
discharged until he accepted his present position of city manager,
October 4, 1920. Independent in politics, loyal, first, last and all the
time to his native state, as to his country as a whole, Mr. Goodwin has
never wanted for occasions when he could, and when he also did, display
his public spiritedness and his absolute confidence in San Jose and the
county.
On New Year's Day, 1915, Mr. Goodwin was married to Miss Alma Robinson,
a companion whose varied gifts he has more and more appreciated. Mr. and
Mrs. Goodwin attend the Presbyterian Church at San Jose, but they are
also interested in, and respond to the appeals of, the uplift work
instituted and carried on under other banners.
Transcribed by Joseph Kral, from Eugene T. Sawyers' History of Santa Clara County,California, published by Historic Record Co. , 1922. page 1531
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