Index
Family Index
Browse all family member profiles in the Goodman-Hofstätter family history.
Dr. William Erastus Platt
Frontier physician, the 'Healer of the West,' and patriarch of the Goodman medical dynasty
ellsworthAdaline Amerilla Riggs
Adaline Amerilla Riggs (1879-1951), wife of Lafayette Dana and mother of Leona Dana Ellsworth, descended from two of the most consequential frontier families in Arizona Territory. Through the Hamblins she inherited the peacemaker legacy; through the Babbitts, a story of violent death on the overland trail. Widowed at thirty-three, she raised her children alone in the desert Southwest during an era that offered women few options and fewer protections.
plattClara Platt Goodman
A profile of Clara Platt Goodman (1898-1984), pharmacist, matriarch, and co-founder of Goodman's Pharmacy in Mesa.
goodmanDr. Clifford James Goodman Jr.
Dr. Clifford James Goodman Jr. (1943-2022), OB/GYN, MomDoc founder, and Chandler medical leader.
goodmanDr. Clifford James Goodman Sr.
Dr. Clifford James Goodman Sr. (1921-1962), foundational physician at Chandler Community Hospital and its first Chief of Staff.
ellsworthEarl Ellsworth
Earl Ellsworth (1903-1995), ostrich farmer second generation, cotton producer, civic leader, and Grand Marshal of the first Chandler Ostrich Festival.
ellsworthEarlene Ellsworth Goodman
Earlene Ellsworth Goodman (1922–1994), daughter of Earl Ellsworth and wife of Dr. Clifford Goodman Sr., raised eight children after his sudden passing and became the matriarch "Grandma Queen Bee."
ellsworthThe Ellsworth Family
The Ellsworth family: Arizona pioneers who farmed, raised ostriches, and built Queen Creek. Earlene Ellsworth (1922–1994) married Dr. Clifford Goodman Sr. in 1940.
hofstatterFrieda Ottilie Erna Kaden
Frieda Ottilie Erna Kaden (1898-1972), wife of Leo Stein (Kaminski), mother of Herta Susi Anneliese Stein, and maternal grandmother of Nadina Hofstätter Goodman. A Saxon-descended Berliner who raised a family through two world wars, hyperinflation, and the division of Germany.
goodmanGeorge Edward Goodman
George Edward Goodman (1870-1952), teamster, freighter, and family patriarch who bridged the pioneer generation to the civic leaders of twentieth-century Mesa.
goodmanA Dynasty in White Coats
Four generations of Goodman healers shaped Arizona healthcare, from a Mesa pharmacy to the largest OB/GYN practice in the state.
goodmanGreat-Grandpa Goodman
A profile of George Nicholas Goodman (1895-1959), Mesa pharmacist, five-term mayor, and statewide civic leader.
hofstatterHerta Susi Anneliese Stein
Herta Susi Anneliese Stein (1923-2002), born in Berlin, Germany, was the first wife of Dr. Peter R. Hofstätter and the mother of Nadina Hofstätter Goodman.
ellsworthJosephine Louvina Crismon
Josephine Louvina Crismon (1868-1948), daughter of pioneer patriarch Charles Crismon and Danish immigrant Louisa Cristiena Bischoff, wife of Arizona's largest ostrich farmer Louis Ellsworth, and mother of eleven children including Earl Ellsworth.
hofstatterJosephine Marie Heller
Josephine Marie Heller, first wife of Dr. Robert Matthias Hofstätter, mother of Peter R. Hofstätter, and wife of Fritz Hansgirg.
hofstatterLeo Stein (Kaminski)
Leo Stein, formerly Kaminski, Polish immigrant to Berlin who Germanized his surname. Father of Herta Susi Anneliese Stein and maternal grandfather of Nadina Hofstätter Goodman.
ellsworthLeona Dana
Leona Dana (born 1908), wife of Earl Ellsworth, daughter of Lafayette Dana and Adeline Riggs, and mother of seven children including Earlene Ellsworth Goodman.
goodmanLouisa Eliza Sheen
Louisa Eliza Sheen (1850-1919), English-born LDS convert who crossed the Atlantic aboard the ship Enoch Train and walked to the Salt Lake Valley in the first handcart company of 1856. She lost her sister Emma on the plains. She settled in St. David, Arizona, married Heber Curtis Reed, and raised five children, including Roxanna Othelia Reed Goodman.
goodmanMargaret Ann Taylor Goodman
Margaret Ann Taylor Goodman (1841-1926), English-born LDS convert, frontier widow, and matriarch who raised nine children alone and ran a general store and post office in St. David, Arizona for thirty years.
Herta Ingeborg Nadina Hofstätter Goodman
Nadina Hofstätter Goodman, born in post-war Vienna, bridged two hemispheres and two families to build a home in Chandler, Arizona.
hofstatterDr. Peter R. Hofstätter
Dr. Peter R. Hofstätter (1913-1994), Austrian-born social psychologist who modernized German psychology.
hofstatterDr. Robert Matthias Hofstätter
Robert Matthias Hofstätter (1883-1970), Viennese gynecologist, pineal gland researcher, and guardian of the Vienna Medical School tradition through two world wars.
goodmanRoxanna Othelia Reed Goodman
Roxanna Othelia Reed Goodman (1875-1933), wife of George Edward Goodman, mother of eight, whose life sketch preserves the intimate details of turn-of-the-century family life in the Gila Valley.
goodmanWilliam Nicholas Goodman
William Nicholas Goodman (1841-1885), English immigrant and LDS pioneer who established the Goodman family in Arizona's San Pedro River Valley.