REFERENCE: 847 Va Cous
Dr. William Henry Goode was a wealthy planter before the war, owning
"Shannon Hill," in Goochland co., Va. He was for many years connected
with the Staunton Iron Works Company.
Dr. Goode was for five years a student of Prof. Draper at Hampden Sidney
College and the University of New york, and was Assistant in Chemistry in
the University of new york before and after he took his degree in
Medicine at Yale Medical College. He writes, " I was connected in some
way with nearly all the experiments and researches conducted by Dr.
Draper while I was his assistant. At Hampden Sidney College, he
discovered the principle of electrotyping, but turned it to no practical
purpose. He took copies of some coins and medals, but nothing more. In
New York he was the first to apply Daguerre's powerof taking pictures by
the sunlight on iodized plates, to taking pictures of the human face. My
face was the first ever photographed by that process, for I sat for the
pictures in the chapel of the University of New york within three days
from the time Daguerre's pamphlet was received in New York. Iwas closely
and intimately associated with Dr. Draper in his efforts to improve the
camera and the process so that it could be used in taking pictures of
men. Great advances were made in his laboratory, some by him and some by
me. The camera now used in photography, is, I think, our joint
production. The old iodine process was radically defective." (See
contemporary files of Silliman's Journal.) He was also associated with
Draper and Sillman in their first experiments in photography with the
electric light. p. 245 Va Cousins