Mary (Goodwin) Graff (Los Angeles, California)

Mary Goodwin.

Mary Goodwin (March 24, 1901 - April 11, 1950) was a resident of Hartford, Connecticut, and Los Angeles, California, and a staff member of the Hartford Times. She was also the founder and operator of the Williamstown, Massachusetts bookstore.

Goodwin was born on March 24, 1901 in Nashua, New Hampshire as the daughter of James Goodwin and Frances Whittlesey Brown. She received her early education in Hartford, Connecticut, and was graduated from Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut. After leaving school, she lived for a short time in Boston, Massachusetts, after returning to Hartford to join the staff of the Hartford Times, where she met her first husband. After her first marriage in 1924, she lived in Paris, France for a while before returning to the United States to found and operate the Williamstown bookstore in Massachusetts. Later, they owned a bookstore in New York City.

On April 11, 1950, Goodwin died at her home in Los Angeles, California, after three months of an illness.

Family

Goodwin married first to Wilton Graff on October 27, 1924. They were divorced in New York in 1936.

• Nancy Graff

Goodwin married second to Philo Higley in Boston, Massachusetts in 1936. They were divorced in 1937.

Goodwin remarried to Wilton Graff on August 6, 1938.