Fonds Acc4750 - Goodwill, Bailey family fonds

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Goodwill, Bailey family fonds

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CA PCA Acc4750

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  • 1860-1983 (Creation)
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    Bailey, Edith Olivia (Eva) (Reid)

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.70 m textual records
680 photographs

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Bailey, Edith Olivia (Eva) (Reid)

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Edith Olivia (Eva) Reid of Kingston, Ontario, was born in 1885. She married Dr. William Louis Bailey and they had one daughter, Florence Elizabeth Bailey Reist. Annual visitors to Prince Edward Island since the early 1900s, Dr. and Mrs. Bailey retired to Charlottetown, taking up residence with Mrs. Florence Goodwill, in the late 1940s or early 1950s, until the time of their deaths. Dr. Bailey died 17 October 1982. Mrs. Bailey died 3 June 1976 at Charlottetown. Both are buried at Cataraqui Cemetery, Kingston, Ontario.

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Bailey, William Louis

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William Louis Bailey was born in Rosseau, Ontario, on 15 August 1882 and attended the University of Toronto and Queen's University. He graduated from Queen's in 1904 with an M.A. Bailey began his university teaching career at Cornell University, and also taught at the University of Wisconsin, University of Colorado, Grinnell College, and Garrett Biblical Institute. Bailey was professor of Sociology at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, from 1919 through retirement as Professor Emeritus in 1947. After retirement, Dr. Bailey was Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland, the Pentagon and the University of Pittsburg. Dr. Bailey's research centered on urban development and the translation of the Gospels from Greek to contemporary English. Dr. Bailey married Edith Olivia (Eva) Reid of Kingston, Ontario, a sister of Florence M. (Reid) Goodwill. Dr. and Mrs. Bailey had one daughter, Florence Elizabeth Bailey Reist. Annual visitors to Prince Edward Island since the early 1900s, Dr. and Mrs. Bailey retired to Charlottetown, taking up residence with Mrs. Florence Goodwill, in the late 1940s or early 1950s, until the time of their deaths. Dr. Bailey died 17 October 1982. Mrs. Bailey died 3 June 1976 at Charlottetown. Both are buried at Cataraqui Cemetery, Kingston, Ontario.

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Goodwill, Euphemia (Cooper)

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Formerly of Nova Scotia, Euphemia (Cooper) Goodwill was the wife of Rev. John Goodwill, Church of Scotland minister.

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Goodwill, Florence (Reid)

Biographical history

Formerly of Kingston, Ontario, Florence (Reid) married Dr. Victor Lyall Goodwill in 1900. They settled in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, shortly afterwards where Dr. Goodwill was Superintendent of Falconwood Hospital.

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Goodwill, John

Biographical history

John Goodwill was born in Ashdale, Nova Scotia in 1831. John was ordained in 1864 in Pictou County, NS. He settled in Prince Edward Island in 1875 succeeding Rev. Donald MacDonald and ministered to the Church of Scotland congregations of Orwell and DeSable. John Goodwill died in 1905.

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Goodwill, Victor Lyall

Biographical history

Victor Lyall Goodwill (1875-1935) was the superintendent of Falconwood Hospital, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, 1900-1927.

Custodial history

The components of the fonds have been deposited at various times through various accessions with the Public Archives and Records Office and the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation. Deposits were made by members of the family and/or their representatives, through purchases at an estate auction sale, and from the estate of Dr. Bailey. The original Charlottetown home of Rev. John Goodwill and Mrs. Goodwill, was inhabited by various members of the Goodwill family and the Baileys upon their retirement. Mrs. Euphemia Goodwill passed on (or perhaps sold) the house to her son, Dr. Victor L. Goodwill and his wife, Florence M. (Reid). Dr. and Mrs. Bailey lived with Mrs. Florence Goodwill. Upon Mrs. Florence Goodwill's death, the house, and its contents passed to her sister Mrs. Eva Bailey and her husband, Dr. William L. Bailey.

Scope and content

The Goodwill, Bailey family fonds is comprised of several accessions. The fonds consists of personal correspondence and photographs of the Goodwill and Bailey families; papers connected with Rev. John Goodwill's work for the Church of Scotland; Dr. V. L. Goodwill's medical lectures and notes; some administrative records of the Falconwood Hospital dating from Dr. Goodwill's tenure as Superintendent; papers concerning Dr. Goodwill's military career and private medical practice; and Dr. W .L. Bailey's papers concerning his career as a university professor and his poetry. The Goodwill, Bailey family fonds divides into the following 13 series:

Rev. John and Mrs. Euphemia Goodwill papers. 1860-1917: copied 1980.
Rev. John and Mrs. Euphemia Goodwill photographs. 1860s-1920s.
Dr. V .L. Goodwill medical lectures and notes. ca. 1910-1930.
Falconwood Hospital administrative records. 1912-1929, 1933.
Dr. V .L. Goodwill military papers. 1917-1923.
Dr. V .L. Goodwill private medical practice papers. ca. 1906-1934.
Dr. V .L. Goodwill photographs. ca. 1890s-1920s.
Dr. V .L. and Mrs. Florence Goodwill personal papers/correspondence. ca. 1890s-1952.
Goodwill and Bailey family photographs. 1860s-1963.
Dr. W .L. and Mrs. Eva Bailey personal papers/correspondence. ca. 1920s, 1942-1983.
Dr. W .L. Bailey professional papers. 1923-ca. 1940s, ca. 1970s.
Dr. W .L. Bailey poetry. ca. 1940s-ca. 1970s.
Miscellaneous. ca.1940s-1954.

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  • English

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MEDICAL ASSESSMENTS ARE RESTRICTED

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SOME RESTRICTIONS MAY APPLY

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See also: Queen’s University Archives, Kingston, Ontario holds the William Louis Bailey fonds, 1947-1982 (3772/acc.83-18). Donations of Dr. Goodwill’s medical books and Dr. Bailey’s library were made to Queen’s University by Mrs. Florence Goodwill and Dr. Bailey

See also: Annual reports of the Falconwood Hospital printed in the Journals of the Legislative Assembly; Acc2363 includes records of the Falconwood and Hillsborough Hospitals (access restricted); Acc3243 Dr. Bailey interviews with Helen MacDonald (access restricted); Acc4332 James Harvey Bishop fonds includes information pertaining to the history of the Church of Scotland on Prince Edward Island

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Copy prints of Series 7: Dr. V .L. Goodwill photographs located in photograph binder Acc3109 in Reading Room

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