Charles A Goodrich
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Reverend Charles Augustus Goodrich (1790 - 1862) was an American author and Congregational minister.
He graduated from Yale University in 1812, studied theology and was ordained in 1816 and became pastor of the 1st Congregational Church in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1820 he moved to Berlin, Connecticut, and in 1848 to Hartford, where he held a pastorate. He was also a member of the Connecticut Senate. Goodrich was associated with his brother Samuel (who published as Peter Parley) in writing books for the young. He was the author of several books by himself: View of Religions (1829); Lives of the Signers (1829; History of the United States of America (1852-5); Family Tourist (1848); Family Sabbath-Day Miscellany (1855); Geography of the Chief Places mentioned in the Bible (1855); Greek Grammar (1855); Child's History of the United States (1855); Bible History of Prayer (1855); Great Events of American History; Outlines of Geography; and Universal Traveller.
The Reverend is known for making the first printed citation of the motto:
"Have a place for every thing, and keep every thing in its proper place."[1]
The motto was published in an article the Reverend entitled 'Neatness' in the newspaper The Ohio Repository (A publication in Canton, Ohio), on Dec 1827. [2]
[edit] Motto
The idea that everything should have a place, and that everything should be returned to this place then appears in later printings:
In 1841 the phrase was used in a modified version in an item headed 'Brother Jonathan's Wife's Advice to her Daughter on her Marriage', in the Hagerstown Mail, Maryland: "A place for everything and everything in time are good family mottos."
In "Masterman Ready; or the Wreck of the Pacific", in 1842, Frederick Marryat prints: "In a well-conducted man-of-war every thing is in its place, and there is a place for every thing."
It appears also in a book printed in 1857 by D. Appleton & Co. of New York with the same title: A place for Everything And Everything In Its Place".[3]
