Index
Family Index
Browse all family member profiles in the Goodman-Hofstätter family history.
Dr. William Erastus Platt
Frontier physician, the 'Healer of the West,' and patriarch of the Goodman medical dynasty
ellsworthAdaline Amerilla Riggs
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.
plattAlameda Jane Johnson
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.
hofstatterAnton Padua Heller
Anton Padua Heller (1841-1928), Viennese merchant whose family witnessed the city's rapid industrialization and middle-class expansion during the nineteenth century.
hofstatterAntonia Josepha Zipser
Antonia Josepha Zipser (1856-1936), Viennese matriarch who managed the Hofstaetter household through the golden age and subsequent collapse of imperial Austria.
ellsworthCharles 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.
ellsworthCharles Hamblin Littlefield 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.
plattClara Platt Goodman
A profile of Clara Platt Goodman (1898-1984), pharmacist, matriarch, and co-founder of Goodman's Pharmacy in Mesa.
goodmanDr. Clifford James Goodman Jr.
Dr. Clifford James Goodman Jr. (1943-2022), OB/GYN, MomDoc founder, and Chandler medical leader.
goodmanDr. Clifford James Goodman Sr.
Dr. Clifford James Goodman Sr. (1921-1962), foundational physician at Chandler Community Hospital and its first Chief of Staff.
ellsworthEarl Ellsworth
Earl Ellsworth (1903-1995), ostrich farmer second generation, cotton producer, civic leader, and Grand Marshal of the first Chandler Ostrich Festival.
ellsworthEarlene Ellsworth Goodman
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."
ellsworthEdmund Lovell 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.
ellsworthThe Ellsworth Family
The Ellsworth family: Arizona pioneers who farmed, raised ostriches, and built Queen Creek. Earlene Ellsworth (1922–1994) married Dr. Clifford Goodman Sr. in 1940.
hofstatterFrieda Ottilie Erna Kaden
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.
goodmanGeorge Edward Goodman
George Edward Goodman (1870-1952), teamster, freighter, and family patriarch who bridged the pioneer generation to the civic leaders of twentieth-century Mesa.
goodmanA Dynasty in White Coats
Four generations of Goodman healers shaped Arizona healthcare, from a Mesa pharmacy to the largest OB/GYN practice in the state.
goodmanGreat-Grandpa Goodman
A profile of George Nicholas Goodman (1895-1959), Mesa pharmacist, five-term mayor, and statewide civic leader.
plattHannah Hood Hill
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.
goodmanHeber Curtis 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.
plattHenry John Platt Sr.
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.
hofstatterHerta Susi Anneliese Stein
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.
plattIsabell Hill Romney
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.
hofstatterJohann 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.
ellsworthJosephine Louvina Crismon
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.
hofstatterJosephine Marie Heller
Josephine Marie Heller, first wife of Dr. Robert Matthias Hofstätter, mother of Peter R. Hofstätter, and wife of Fritz Hansgirg.
ellsworthLafayette 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.
hofstatterLeo Stein (Kaminski)
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.
ellsworthLeona Dana
Leona Dana (1904-1993), wife of Earl Ellsworth, daughter of Lafayette Dana and Adeline Riggs, and mother of seven children including Earlene Ellsworth Goodman.
ellsworthLouis 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.
goodmanLouisa Eliza Sheen
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.
ellsworthLouise Kirstine Bischoff
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.
hofstatterLudwig Hofstaetter
Ludwig Hofstaetter (1852-1923), Lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian Army and father of gynecologist Dr. Robert Matthias Hofstätter.
goodmanMargaret Ann Taylor Goodman
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.
ellsworthMary Ann Jones
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.
hofstatterMathilde Krueger
Mathilde Krueger (1851-1940), East Prussian matriarch who survived the First World War and witnessed the rise and fall of the Weimar Republic.
plattMiles Park 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.
hofstatterHerta Ingeborg Nadina Hofstätter Goodman
Nadina Hofstätter Goodman, born in post-war Vienna, bridged two hemispheres and two families to build a home in Chandler, Arizona.
ellsworthNancy Marie Babbitt
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.
hofstatterDr. Peter R. Hofstätter
Dr. Peter R. Hofstätter (1913-1994), Austrian-born social psychologist who modernized German psychology.
hofstatterRobert Hermann 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.
hofstatterDr. Robert Matthias Hofstätter
Robert Matthias Hofstätter (1883-1970), Viennese gynecologist, pineal gland researcher, and guardian of the Vienna Medical School tradition through two world wars.
goodmanRoxanna Othelia Reed Goodman
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.
hofstatterTherese Auguste Rosa Moeller
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.
hofstatterWilhelmine Francisca Stricker
Wilhelmine Francisca Stricker (1854-1922), daughter of Viennese merchants whose family lines were deeply rooted in the capital's civic and commercial development.
goodmanWilliam Nicholas Goodman
William Nicholas Goodman (1841-1885), English immigrant and LDS pioneer who established the Goodman family in Arizona's San Pedro River Valley.