F. Norton Goddard
Captain Frederick Norton Goddard was a Republican Party politician from New York City. He was an anti-poverty advocate and an anti-gambling advocate.
Biography
He was born in 1861 in New York City to Joseph Warren Goddard, and he had a brother, Warren Norton Goddard. He was a descendant of the first wagon master general of the Army, John Goddard, under the command of George Washington. who built the John Goddard House Brookline, Massachusetts.Frederick Norton Goddard attended the Anthon grammar school and then Harvard University, graduating in 1882. He then joined his father's business, J. W. Goddard and Sons. He married Alice Grenville Winthrop, an artist who studied with William Merritt Chase, on November 22, 1898, in Manhattan.
After the death of his father he formed the Civic Club and became an anti-gambling advocate trying to eliminate the numbers game.
In November 1901 he worked to get Albert J. Adams, the policy king incarcerated.
He died on May 28, 1905, at 9:30 am in Litchfield, Connecticut.