Historical Tyson Landowners

George w. goode

Little is known about George W. Goode, an 1862 landowner of property that is part of current day Tyson. He may have been the same George Washington Goode who served as the attorney for the Emerson-Sandford family in the infamous 1846 court case Dred Scott v. Sandford.  

Goode was an enslaver. An 1848 record of Court Ordered Slave Sales from the St. Louis Probate Court lists Benjamin, Kitty, Joseph, Josiah, and Charity as enslaved and Ellen Butler as free. Unnamed individuals from the 1850 Census include three women between the ages of 30-36 and three boys between the ages of 12-20. Four women between the ages of 30-55, two men aged 22 and 33, five girls between the ages of 2-18, and six boys between the ages of 2-12.  

Resources 

Biro, E. Tyson Border Polygon. (2023) Tyson Research Center.  

Goode v. United States, 58 F.2d 105 | Casetext Search + Citator. (n.d.). Retrieved June 17, 2024, from https://casetext.com/case/goode-v-united-states-2.  

Kearns, E. Goode’s Land 1862 ArcGIS Polygon. (2024) Washington University in St. Louis.  

Missouri Digital Heritage: Dred Scott Case, 1846-1857. (n.d.). Retrieved June 17, 2024, from https://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/africanamerican/scott/scott.  

St. Louis Integrated Database of Enslavement | Washington University in St. Louis. (n.d.). Retrieved June 17, 2024, from https://sites.wustl.edu/enslavementstl/search/. 

This Tyson landowner profile was researched and written by Undergraduate Fellow Emmett Kearns and edited by Undergraduate Fellow Juliana Morera during summer 2024.