Feature Article on Ida Goode. Topic:
WOMEN & PEOPLE
Written by Rich Wallace in
September, 1996
IDA HASLUP GOODE LEAVES LEGACY |
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| The recent purchase of the GreatStone Castle, formerly known as
the Whitby Place by Frederick and
Judith Keller has brought back many memories for Sidney residents concerning the home
itself and the persons who resided there. Perhaps most people would name as its most
famous resident W.H.C. Goode, the industrialist who was the longtime owner of the American Steel Scraper Company and other business interests in Sidney and elsewhere. History, however, tells a different story. In 1875, a young lady named Ida Haslup graduated from Sidney High School. She then obtained a degree from Illinois Wesleyan University and thereafter returned to Sidney to begin a teaching career at the age of 27. Haslup taught at the high school for eight years. Toward the end of her tenure there, she became the first female principal of a high school in Ohio when she assumed that position in Sidney in the late 1880's. Afterward she accepted a similar position in Pueblo, Colorado. Haslup returned to Sidney in 1899 and shortly thereafter married W.H.C. Goode, whose first wife had died. Ida promptly assumed the responsibility of raising all five of the Goode children and assisting Mr. Goode with the business at American Steel Scraper Co. as well. Not content to raise children and help run the family business, Ida Goode later launched a second career of missionary work for the Methodist Church when she was over 60 years old. |
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