C. C. (Charles Carroll) Goodwin

Born in New York in 1832, Charles Carroll Goodwin went west as a young man and spent time in California before building his career in Nevada and Utah. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in California, and became known for a mix of legal work, public service, and sharp, readable prose.

Goodwin was closely tied to western journalism. He worked for Virginia City's Territorial Enterprise and later became an important newspaper editor in Salt Lake City, where his name was especially associated with Goodwin's Weekly. He also took part in public life in Utah and served as a delegate to the Utah Constitutional Convention of 1895.

As a writer, he is remembered for memoir and commentary shaped by direct experience of the frontier West. His 1913 book As I Remember Them looks back on pioneers and public figures from California and Nevada, and it remains a useful window into the people and atmosphere of that era. He died in Salt Lake City in 1917.