F. Norton Goddard

[1] He was a descendant of the first wagon master general of the Army, John Goddard, under the command of George Washington.

Frederick Norton Goddard attended the Anthon grammar school and then Harvard University, graduating in 1882.

He married Alice Grenville Winthrop,[2] an artist who studied with William Merritt Chase, on November 22, 1898, in Manhattan.

[1] After the death of his father he formed the Civic Club and became an anti-gambling advocate trying to eliminate the numbers game.

Near the time of his early death, Goddard had succeeded in shaming the Western Union company out of its active cooperation with wire houses that allowed illegal off-track betting.