Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

James GOODSPEED, publisher and proprietor of the Joliet Republican, Joliet; was born in Tioga 
Co., Penn., Dec. 3, 1836; he came to Joliet in 1859; he was educated at Alfred University, 
N. Y., and after leaving college entered the law office of GOODSPEED & MCROBERT in Joliet; 
he was admitted to the bar in 1861, and continued in practice until 1869, when he purchased 
the Joliet Republican, which he has continued to publish to the present time. The Republican 
is the oldest Republican newspaper in the Seventh Congressional District, and has a larger 
circulation than any other paper published in the district; it is issued both as a weekly and 
semi-weekly, and has a circulation of fully 1,800. Mr. GOODSPEED was appointed Postmaster in 
1871, and still holds the office.