Ezra G. Goddard (1823-1893) was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and
died in Saginaw, Michigan. He married Rhoda E. Vincent in Worcester in 1857. At 29 years
of age, he was chief engineer of the Cleveland, Ohio, and Indiana, Cleveland and St.
Louis and Terre Haute railroad lines. He moved to Saginaw with his family in 1862 and
started the E.G. Goddard and Son Lumber Company, of which he was president. Goddard
wrote to Mary Baker Eddy in 1886, asking for information about Christian Science
treatment through prayer for his wife.
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