Index
Family Index
Browse all family member profiles in the Goodman-Hofstätter family history.
Dr. William Erastus Platt
University of Louisville, 1893. Arizona Medical License No. 41. Forty years in the Gila Valley.
Frontier physician, the 'Healer of the West,' and patriarch of the Goodman medical dynasty
Adaline Amerilla Riggs
Daughter of Charles Hamblin Riggs and Nancy Marie Babbitt. Wife of Lafayette Dana. Mother of Leoma Ellen Dana.
Adaline Amerilla Riggs (1879-1951), wife of Lafayette Dana and mother of Leoma Ellen Dana, descended from two of the most consequential frontier families in Arizona Territory. Through the Hamblins she inherited the peacemaker legacy; through the Babbitts, a story of violent death on the overland trail. Widowed at thirty-three, she raised her children alone in the desert Southwest during an era that offered women few options and fewer protections.
Alameda Jane Johnson
Daughter of Sir John Johnson and Clarissa Palmeter. Wife of Henry John Platt Sr. Mother of Dr. William Erastus Platt.
Alameda Jane Johnson (1833-1889), pioneer mother and early LDS convert who crossed the plains to Utah and later settled in the volatile St. Johns colonizing mission of northern Arizona.
Anton Padua Heller
Son of Anton Heller and Theresia Hinterlandner. Husband of Wilhelmine Francisca Stricker. Father of Josefine Maria Theresia Heller.
Anton Padua Heller (1841-1928), Viennese merchant whose family witnessed the city's rapid industrialization and middle-class expansion during the nineteenth century.
Antonia Josepha Zipser
Daughter of Karl August Zipser and Antonia Josepha Steinbrecher. Wife of Ludwig Hofstaetter. Mother of Dr. Robert Matthias Hofstätter.
Antonia Josepha Zipser (1856-1936), Viennese matriarch who managed the Hofstaetter household through the golden age and subsequent collapse of imperial Austria.
Charles Crismon
Born in Kentucky. Husband of Louise Kirstine Bischoff. Father of Josephine Louvina Crismon.
Charles Crismon (1805-1890), pioneer miller, colonizer, and co-founder of Lehi, Arizona. He built early gristmills in Utah and engineered the canals that opened Mesa for agriculture.
Charles Hamblin Littlefield Riggs
Son of John Ensign Riggs and Adeline Amarilla Hamblin. Husband of Nancy Marie Babbitt. Father of Adaline Amerilla Riggs.
Charles Hamblin Littlefield Riggs (1846-1932), pioneer farmer, rancher, and early settler in Eagar and Mesa. He carried the peacemaker legacy of the Hamblin family onto the Arizona frontier.
Clara Platt Goodman
Granddaughter of pioneer Miles Park Romney and first cousin to Governor George W. Romney.
A profile of Clara Platt Goodman (1898-1984), pharmacist, matriarch, and co-founder of Goodman's Pharmacy in Mesa.
Dr. Clifford James Goodman Jr.
Kane-King Award winner, Navy medical officer, Chief of Staff at Chandler Regional - following his father's path.
Dr. Clifford James Goodman Jr. (1943-2022), OB/GYN, MomDoc founder, and Chandler medical leader.
Dr. Clifford James Goodman Sr.
Family Practice Physician. First Chief of Staff at Chandler Community Hospital. George Washington University School of Medicine.
Dr. Clifford James Goodman Sr. (1921-1962), foundational physician at Chandler Community Hospital and its first Chief of Staff.
Earl Ellsworth
Son of Louis Ellsworth. Father of Earlene Ellsworth Goodman. Grand Marshal, first Chandler Ostrich Festival (1989).
Earl Ellsworth (1903-1995), ostrich farmer second generation, cotton producer, civic leader, and Grand Marshal of the first Chandler Ostrich Festival.
Earlene Ellsworth Goodman
Daughter of Earl Ellsworth. Wife of Dr. Clifford Goodman Sr. "Grandma Queen Bee."
Earlene Ellsworth Goodman (1922–1994), daughter of Earl Ellsworth and wife of Dr. Clifford Goodman Sr., raised eight children after his sudden passing and became the matriarch "Grandma Queen Bee."
Edmund Lovell Ellsworth
Son of Jonathan Patrick Ellsworth and Sarah Gallea. Husband of Mary Ann Jones. Father of Louis Ellsworth.
Edmund Lovell Ellsworth (1819-1893), captain of the first Mormon Handcart Company of 1856, builder, alderman, and pioneer colonizer who co-founded Show Low, Arizona.
The Ellsworth Family
Farmers. Cotton producers. Ostrich ranchers. The maternal line behind the Goodman medical legacy.
The Ellsworth family: Arizona pioneers who farmed, raised ostriches, and built Queen Creek. Earlene Ellsworth (1922–1994) married Dr. Clifford Goodman Sr. in 1940.
Frieda Ottilie Erna Kaden
1898-1972. Mother of Herta Susi Anneliese Stein. Wife of Leo Stein (Kaminski). Maternal grandmother of Nadina Hofstätter Goodman.
Frieda Ottilie Erna Kaden (1898-1972), wife of Leo Stein (Kaminski), mother of Herta Susi Anneliese Stein, and maternal grandmother of Nadina Hofstätter Goodman. A Saxon-descended Berliner who raised a family through two world wars, hyperinflation, and the division of Germany.
George Edward Goodman
Minersville boy. Four-horse team. Freighter to Bisbee. Lumber man of Safford. Patriarch of the Goodman line.
George Edward Goodman (1870-1952), teamster, freighter, and family patriarch who bridged the pioneer generation to the civic leaders of twentieth-century Mesa.
A Dynasty in White Coats
Four generations. Pharmacy → Optometry → Medicine → Enterprise. The Goodman medical legacy.
Four generations of Goodman healers shaped Arizona healthcare, from a Mesa pharmacy to the largest OB/GYN practice in the state.
Great-Grandpa Goodman
From the grandchildren and great-grandchildren's perspective, he is Great-Grandpa Goodman, a steady civic anchor during the Depression, wartime, and postwar growth.
A profile of George Nicholas Goodman (1895-1959), Mesa pharmacist, five-term mayor, and statewide civic leader.
Hannah Hood Hill
Daughter of Archibald Newell Hill and Isabella Hood. Wife of Miles Park Romney. Mother of Isabell Hill Romney.
Hannah Hood Hill (1842-1928), pioneer mother who crossed the plains as a child, managed households in St. Johns, Arizona, and later pioneered in the Mormon colonies of Chihuahua, Mexico.
Heber Curtis Reed
Son of Calvin Reed and Mary Curtis. Husband of Louisa Eliza Sheen. Father of Roxanna Othelia Reed.
Heber Curtis Reed (1847-1902), pioneer farmer, civic leader, and early settler of St. David in the San Pedro Valley. Born during the Mormon exodus from Nauvoo, he helped establish agriculture in southern Arizona.
Henry John Platt Sr.
Born in Staffordshire, England. Husband of Alameda Jane Johnson. Father of Dr. William Erastus Platt.
Henry John Platt Sr. (1828-1905), English-born convert, pioneer builder, and early settler in the Gila Valley who helped establish agricultural canals and civic institutions in Thatcher, Arizona.
Herta Susi Anneliese Stein
Born in Charlottenburg, Berlin. Athlete in the 1936 Olympics Opening Ceremony. First wife of Dr. Peter R. Hofstätter. Mother of Nadina.
Herta Susi Anneliese Stein (1923-2002), born in Berlin, Germany, was the first wife of Dr. Peter R. Hofstätter and the mother of Nadina Hofstätter Goodman.
Isabell Hill Romney
Daughter of Miles Park Romney and Hannah Hood Hill. Wife of Dr. William Erastus Platt. Mother of Clara Platt Goodman.
Isabell Hill Romney (1863-1919), daughter of pioneer leader Miles Park Romney, wife of Dr. William Erastus Platt, and mother of Clara Platt Goodman. She pioneered in the remote settlements of territorial Arizona, managing a large household under frontier conditions.
Johann Kaminski
Born in Wuttrienen, East Prussia. Husband of Mathilde Krueger. Father of Leo Stein (Kaminski).
Johann Kaminski (1852-1914), East Prussian agricultural worker and patriarch of the Kaminski family, which later migrated to Berlin and Germanized their name to Stein.
Josephine Louvina Crismon
Daughter of Charles Crismon and Louisa Bischoff. Wife of Louis Ellsworth. Mother of Earl Ellsworth.
Josephine Louvina Crismon (1868-1948), daughter of pioneer patriarch Charles Crismon and Danish immigrant Louisa Cristiena Bischoff, wife of Arizona's largest ostrich farmer Louis Ellsworth, and mother of eleven children including Earl Ellsworth.
Josephine Marie Heller
First wife of Dr. Robert Matthias Hofstätter. Mother of Peter R. Hofstätter. Wife of chemist Fritz Hansgirg.
Josephine Marie Heller, first wife of Dr. Robert Matthias Hofstätter, mother of Peter R. Hofstätter, and wife of Fritz Hansgirg.
Lafayette Dana
Son of Charles Carrol Dana and Hannah Ellen Odekirk. Husband of Adaline Amerilla Riggs. Father of Leona Dana.
Lafayette Dana (1876-1912), pioneer farmer and agricultural laborer in Mesa, whose early death at age thirty-six left his widow Adaline Riggs to raise their young family alone in territorial Arizona.
Leo Stein (Kaminski)
Born Kaminski in Poland. Immigrated to Berlin and Germanized his name. Father of Herta Susi Anneliese Stein.
Leo Stein, formerly Kaminski, Polish immigrant to Berlin who Germanized his surname. Father of Herta Susi Anneliese Stein and maternal grandfather of Nadina Hofstätter Goodman.
Leona Dana
Daughter of Lafayette Dana and Adeline Riggs. Wife of Earl Ellsworth. Mother of Earlene Ellsworth Goodman.
Leona Dana (1904-1993), wife of Earl Ellsworth, daughter of Lafayette Dana and Adeline Riggs, and mother of seven children including Earlene Ellsworth Goodman.
Louis Ellsworth
Son of Edmund Lovell Ellsworth and Mary Ann Jones. Husband of Josephine Louvina Crismon. Father of Earl Ellsworth.
Louis Ellsworth (1865-1925), pioneer farmer, stockman, and early settler in the Salt River Valley. He farmed in the Lehi and Mesa districts, bridging the early colonizing era to the age of irrigated agriculture.
Louisa Eliza Sheen
Gloucestershire girl. Enoch Train. First handcart company. Buried a sister on the plains. St. David. Mother of Roxanna.
Louisa Eliza Sheen (1850-1919), English-born LDS convert who crossed the Atlantic aboard the ship Enoch Train and walked to the Salt Lake Valley in the first handcart company of 1856. She lost her sister Emma on the plains. She settled in St. David, Arizona, married Heber Curtis Reed, and raised five children, including Roxanna Othelia Reed Goodman.
Louise Kirstine Bischoff
Born in Skive, Denmark. Wife of Charles Crismon. Mother of Josephine Louvina Crismon.
Louise Kirstine Bischoff (1843-1911), Danish-born convert, pioneer mother, and plural wife of Charles Crismon, who immigrated to Utah and helped settle Lehi, Arizona.
Ludwig Hofstaetter
Lieutenant (K. K. Leutnant a. D.) in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Husband of Antonia Josepha Zipser. Father of Dr. Robert Matthias Hofstätter.
Ludwig Hofstaetter (1852-1923), Lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian Army and father of gynecologist Dr. Robert Matthias Hofstätter.
Margaret Ann Taylor Goodman
Spilsby. Liverpool. Salt Lake. Minersville. St. David. Five dollars, a newborn, and forty-one years of managing on her own.
Margaret Ann Taylor Goodman (1841-1926), English-born LDS convert, frontier widow, and matriarch who raised nine children alone and ran a general store and post office in St. David, Arizona for thirty years.
Mary Ann Jones
Born in Shropshire, England. Wife of Edmund Lovell Ellsworth. Mother of Louis Ellsworth.
Mary Ann Jones (1836-1925), English convert, pioneer mother, and plural wife of Edmund Lovell Ellsworth, who crossed the plains and helped settle Show Low, Arizona.
Mathilde Krueger
Born in Allenstein, East Prussia. Wife of Johann Kaminski. Mother of Leo Stein (Kaminski).
Mathilde Krueger (1851-1940), East Prussian matriarch who survived the First World War and witnessed the rise and fall of the Weimar Republic.
Miles Park Romney
Son of Miles Romney and Elizabeth Gaskell. Husband of Hannah Hood Hill. Father of Isabell Hill Romney.
Miles Park Romney (1843-1904), pioneer leader, builder, sheriff, and actor. He co-founded early Arizona settlements and later led migrations to the Mormon colonies in Chihuahua, Mexico.
Herta Ingeborg Nadina Hofstätter Goodman
Daughter of Peter R. Hofstätter. Married Clifford J. Goodman Jr. in Hamburg, 1966. Raised six children on Bullmoose Drive.
Nadina Hofstätter Goodman, born in post-war Vienna, bridged two hemispheres and two families to build a home in Chandler, Arizona.
Nancy Marie Babbitt
Daughter of Almon Whiting Babbitt and Julia Ann Johnson. Wife of Charles Hamblin Littlefield Riggs. Mother of Adaline Amerilla Riggs.
Nancy Marie Babbitt (1854-1949), pioneer mother whose long life of ninety-four years bridged the era of covered wagons and the dawn of the Cold War. Her father, Almon Whiting Babbitt, was killed on the plains in 1856.
Dr. Peter R. Hofstätter
Son of a University of Vienna gynecology professor. Wehrmacht psychologist. Harvard and MIT. Chair at Hamburg. Konrad Adenauer Prize.
Dr. Peter R. Hofstätter (1913-1994), Austrian-born social psychologist who modernized German psychology.
Robert Hermann Kaden
Son of Adam Friedrich Kaden and Juliane Henriette Schubert. Husband of Therese Auguste Rosa Moeller. Father of Frieda Ottilie Erna Kaden.
Robert Hermann Kaden (1874-1939), Saxon-born industrial worker who migrated to Berlin during the late nineteenth-century boom and raised his family through World War I.
Dr. Robert Matthias Hofstätter
University of Vienna MD (1907). Wiener Allgemeine Poliklinik. Pineal gland therapeutics. The man who stayed.
Robert Matthias Hofstätter (1883-1970), Viennese gynecologist, pineal gland researcher, and guardian of the Vienna Medical School tradition through two world wars.
Roxanna Othelia Reed Goodman
St. David girl. Reed family. Handcart pioneer's granddaughter. Safford. Spencer W. Kimball sang at her funeral.
Roxanna Othelia Reed Goodman (1875-1933), wife of George Edward Goodman, mother of eight, whose life sketch preserves the intimate details of turn-of-the-century family life in the Gila Valley.
Therese Auguste Rosa Moeller
Daughter of Carl Friedrich Moeller and Friederike Karoline Mueller. Wife of Robert Hermann Kaden. Mother of Frieda Ottilie Erna Kaden.
Therese Auguste Rosa Moeller (1877-1953), Weimar-born matriarch who survived the Allied bombings of Berlin during the Second World War and witnessed the Cold War division of the city.
Wilhelmine Francisca Stricker
Daughter of Carl Mathias Stricker and Wilhelmine Josepha Grohe. Wife of Anton Padua Heller. Mother of Josephine Marie Heller.
Wilhelmine Francisca Stricker (1854-1922), daughter of Viennese merchants whose family lines were deeply rooted in the capital's civic and commercial development.
William Nicholas Goodman
Bristol orphan. Atlantic crossing. Utah. St. David. The Goodman story in Arizona begins here.
William Nicholas Goodman (1841-1885), English immigrant and LDS pioneer who established the Goodman family in Arizona's San Pedro River Valley.