Charles Miner Goodall

Biography

Charles Miner Goodall played a leading role in the expansion of Pacific maritime commerce, supporting steamship lines that connected California to distant ports and fostered new trade opportunities. His work helped knit together communities up and down the coast, enabling goods and people to travel more freely.

Goodall quietly supported civic organizations and charitable causes, believing that economic success carried with it a duty to improve the places where people lived and worked. His foresight helped lay a durable foundation for the economic development of the West.