Robert Hutchings  GODDARD

1882 Birth
Name: Robert H. Goddard
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Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 05 Oct 1882
Event Place: Worcester, Massachusetts
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Father's Name: Nahum Goddard
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Mother's Name: Fannie L. Hoyt
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Reference ID: 421
GS Film number: 1428204
Digital Folder Number: 4341200
Image Number: 1000

'Massachusetts, Births, 1841-1915,' index and images, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ pal:/ MM9.1.1/ FXDS-4XW : accessed 06 Nov 2013), Robert H. Goddard, 1882.
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1900 Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts
Name: Robert H Goddard
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Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: ED 1774 Precinct 4 Worcester city Ward 7, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Birth Date: Oct 1882
Birthplace: Massachusetts
Relationship to Head of Household: Grandson
Father's Birthplace: Massachusetts
Mother's Birthplace: Massachusetts
Race: White
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
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Page: 1
Sheet Letter: A
Family Number: 3
Reference ID: 7
GS Film number: 1240697
Digital Folder Number: 004114471
Image Number: 00988
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Mary P Goddard F 66 Massachusetts
Son Mahum D Goddard M 41 Massachusetts
Daughter-in-law Fannie L Goddard F 36 Massachusetts
Grandson Robert H Goddard M 18 Massachusetts
1900 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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1910 Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts
Name: Robert H Goddard
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Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1910
Event Place: Worcester Ward 8, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
District: 1908
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
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Relationship to Head of Household: Grandson
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Grandson
Birth Year (Estimated): 1883
Birthplace: Massachusetts
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Father's Birthplace: Massachusetts
Mother's Birthplace: Massachusetts
Sheet Number and Letter: 13A
Household ID: 290
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Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M1283
GS Film number: 1374646
Digital Folder Number: 004330131
Image Number: 00520
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Mary P Goddard F 75 Massachusetts
Son Nahum P Goddard M 50 Massachusetts
Daughter-in-law Fanny L Goddard F 45 Massachusetts
Grandson Robert H Goddard M 27 Massachusetts
1910 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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1917 World War I Draft Registration
Name: Robert Hutchings Goddard
Event Type: Draft Registration
Event Date: 1917-1918
Event Place: Worcester City no 4, Massachusetts, United States
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 05 Oct 1882
Birthplace: , , United States
Nationality: United States
Affiliate Publication Title: World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards
Affiliate Publication Number: M1509
GS Film number: 1674505
Digital Folder Number: 005216064
Image Number: 01326

'United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918,' index and images, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ pal:/ MM9.1.1/ KZNC-FB1 : accessed 06 Nov 2013), Robert Hutchings Goddard, 1917-1918; citing Worcester City no 4, Massachusetts, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d); FHL microfilm 1674505.
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918

1920 Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts
Name: Robert H Godard
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Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1920
Event Place: Worcester Ward 7, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
District: 293
Gender: Male
Age: 37
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Race (Original): White
Can Read: Yes
Can Write: Yes
Relationship to Head of Household: Son
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Birth Year (Estimated): 1883
Birthplace: Massachusetts
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Father's Birthplace: Massachusetts
Mother's Birthplace: Massachusetts
Sheet Number and Letter: 4A
Household ID: 84
Line Number: 20
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: T625
GS Film number: 1820752
Digital Folder Number: 004311577
Image Number: 00705
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Nathan D Godard M 61 Massachusetts
Wife Fannie L Godard F 55 Massachusetts
Son Robert H Godard M 37 Massachusetts
1920 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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GIANT ROCKET SOON READY FOR TEST
Professor Robert Goddard's Rocket, Which is Expected to Travel 70 Miles in Air, is Ready

WORCHESTER, Mass., - An actual test of Professor Robert Goddard's rocket, which it is claimed, can travel vertically seventy miles into the air will be made here shortly. The time and place have not yet been definitely decided upon.

The rocket, it is said, is practically ready to be tried out. It weighs thirty pounds, twenty-five of which is highly explosive. A sufficiently large rocket would hit the moon, it is claimed.

Professor Goddard started his invention during the war and has been at work on it since. His laboratory at that time was carefully guarded by soldiers, as the rocket was expected to provide the army with a terrible new engine of destruction capable of shooting two hundred or more miles.

The Smithsonian Institute and the War Department provided a working fund of more than $5,000. Clark Collage, where Professor Goddard is head of the department of physics, gave him a...Read MORE...


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The Ogden Standard-Examiner
Ogden, Utah
September 28, 1920

1930 - The father of modern rocketry Massachusetts scientist Robert Goddard whom some called a crackpot, came to New Mexico in 1930 to test rocket-ship models.
From those humble beginnings the aerospace industry became one of New Mexico's leading industries.
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1945 Death
10 August 1945
Baltimore, Maryland, USA

He died at the age of 62.