Milo Goodrich (January 3, 1814 – April 15, 1881) was a

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from New York. Born in East Homer,

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, he moved with his parents to Cortlandville in 1816. He attended the South Cortland district school, Cortland Academy (in

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) and

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in Ohio. He taught school in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, studied law, was admitted to the

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in 1840, and practiced for two years in Beloit, Wisconsin. He returned to New York and settled in Dryden in 1844. He was

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of Dryden from October 2, 1849 to June 25, 1853 and was a member of the

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in 1867 and 1868. Goodrich was elected as a Republican to the Forty-second Congress, holding office from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1873. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1872 to the

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, and resumed the practice of law. He moved to

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in 1875 and continued the practice of law; he died there in 1881. Interment was in Green Hills Cemetery, Dryden. He is the great-great-great-grandfather of U.S. Secretary of Education

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