, 1906 On November 4, 1869, Goodrich was married to Mary Elizabeth Marvin (1841–1907), a daughter of
U.S. Representative Richard Pratt Marvin and Isabella (née Newland) Marvin. Her uncle,
William Marvin, was a United States federal judge and the 7th
Governor of Florida. Together, Mary and Benjamin were the parents of: •
Charles Cross Goodrich (1871–1932), who was a Goodrich chemist and member of the
Maine Legislature. • Richard Marvin Goodrich (1872–1872), who died in infancy. • Isabella Goodrich Breckinridge (1874–1961), who married John Cabell Breckinridge II (1870–1941), a grandson of
John C. Breckinridge (the former Vice President of the United States under
James Buchanan, a
Confederate general and
Confederate Secretary of War). •
David Marvin Goodrich (1876–1950), who became a Goodrich executive. He married Ruth Williams Pruyn, a daughter of banker
Robert C. Pruyn in 1903. They divorced and in 1936 he married Beatrice (née Morgan) Pruyn, daughter of
William Fellowes Morgan Sr. and the ex-wife of his first wife's brother. Goodrich died on August 3, 1888, in
Manitou Springs, Colorado, where he had been in hopes of improving his health. He was buried in at
Lake View Cemetery in
Jamestown, New York. After his death, his wife hired architect
Guy Lowell in 1905 to design a 23-room mansion known as
River House in
York, Maine. His widow died in April 1907.
Descendants Through his daughter Isabella, he was a grandfather of
Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, the photojournalist, cinematographer, and philanthropist, who married diplomat
Jefferson Patterson. == References ==