Tulare County Biographies

Orville Coy Goodin

Submitted by Sally Kaleta, October, 2006

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	Orville Coy Goodin was born in Missouri, in 1856, son of W. S. and 
Eliza (Blair) Goodin, natives of Tennessee and Missouri respectively. He is the 
oldest son in a family of seven children, only three of whom are now living. The 
year following his birth he was brought by his parents to California. In the 
fall of 1861 they came to Tulare County and settled on a ranch four miles 
northeast of Visalia, where his mother died when he was eleven years old. He 
remained at home until he was sixteen, when he started out to make his own way 
in the world, working for wages.
	In 1878 Mr. Goodin purchased 320 acres of land, a portion of 
which, when Orosi was started, he sold for the town site, and on twenty acres he 
reserved he built the second house in the village. He has a nice home and is 
keeping pace with the rapid development that is taking place all around him; has 
thirteen acres if vineyard at Orosi, in a flourishing condition; and owns 160 
acres of land three miles south of the town and 100 acres three-quarters of a 
mile northeast.
	Mr. Goodin was united in marriage in 1884, with Miss Nannie 
Ragle, a native of Sonoma County, California. His political affiliations are 
with the Democratic party, and to him belongs the distinction of having been 
appointed the first Postmaster of Orosi.
 
Source: "The Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Fresno, 
Tulare, and Kern, California," Lewis Publ. Co., p.