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Jasper Goodwill
Jasper Goodwill (November 18, 1889 – November 10, 1974)〔Dates from tombstone in Minden Cemetery〕 served from 1955 to 1958 as the Democratic mayor of the small city of Minden, the seat of government of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana. He is considered a transitional mayor between the longer tenures of John T. David and Frank T. Norman. He worked to implement health insurance and a pension plan for municipal employees.
==Background==
Goodwill's paternal grandfather, Captain Alfred Goodwill, a native of London, England and a member of the Confederate States Army, lived first in Claiborne Parish. After the death of his first wife, Elizabeth Ford Farley (1834-1869), Captain Goodwill moved in 1873 to Minden with his five children, including Jasper Goodwill's father, Alfred Jasper Goodwill, and Captain Goodwill's second wife, the former Ida Victoria Hill (1838-1937). Captain Goodwill in 1880 opened an 18,000-square foot general store in Minden, a "superstore" believed at the time to be the largest such enterprise in the state. One could even purchase a casket and embalming fluid from Goodwill's. Goodwill Street in Minden, which connects the Minden Cemetery with the Webster Parish Fairgrounds, is named for Captain Goodwill, as is the Goodwill Road near the former Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant in western Webster Parish..〔John A. Agan, "Captain Alfred Goodwill's Descendant (Murphy J. Foster, Jr.) Makes News", ''Minden Press-Herald'', November 3, 1995〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Capt. Alfred Goodwill )〕 Jasper Goodwill was the second of seven children born in Minden to Alfred Jasper Goodwill (1855–1937)〔John Agan, "The Legacy of Captain Alfred Goodwill," ''North Louisiana History'', Vol. 27, Nos. 2-3 (Spring-Summer 1996), pp. 103-109〕 and the former Sallie Fort (1859–1934).
Captain Goodwill and his second wife, Ida, had four children. A daughter, Olive Goodwill (born c. 1875), married Robert Roberts, Jr., the mayor of, first, Farmerville and then Minden (1905-1906), a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Webster Parish, an appeal court judge and a state district judge in Minden, and, finally, an attorney in private practice in Shreveport. Their daughter, Olive Roberts (1904-1990),〔Henry E. Chambers, "Robert Roberts, Jr.", ''A History of Louisiana'', Vol. 2 (Chicago and New York City, American Historical Society, Inc., 1925), pp. 21-22〕 married Murphy J. Foster, a sugar planter in St. Mary Parish and a son of Governor Murphy J. Foster, Sr. The second Olive Roberts was hence the mother of former Governor Murphy J. "Mike" Foster, Jr.; born in 1930, he left the governorship after two terms in 2004. Captain Goodwill was hence the maternal great-grandfather of the second Governor Foster; Alfred Jasper Goodwill, the great-uncle, and Jasper Goodwill, a cousin.〔
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