Katherine Hancock Goode

{{Short description|American educator and politician (1872–1928)}}

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Katherine Hancock Goode (1872–1928) was a teacher, teacher educator, administrator, and state legislator in Illinois.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HcAGAQAAIAAJ&dq=charles+griffin+illinois+representative+1924&pg=PA124|title=Illinois Blue Book|first=Illinois Office of Secretary of|last=State|date=July 25, 1925|publisher=Secretary of State|via=Google Books}} John Paul Goode (1852–1932), a professor of Geography at the University of Chicago, was her husband.{{Cite web|url=https://photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu/db.xqy?show=browse1.xml%7C1094|title=Goode, Katherine Hancock: Photographic Archive: The University of Chicago|website=photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu}} The Minnesota Historical Society has a photo of her and her husband.{{Cite web|url=http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display.php?irn=10784678|title=John Paul Goode with his wife Katherine Hancock Goode and their son Kenneth. : Collections Online : mnhs.org|website=collections.mnhs.org}}

She was born in Kellogg, Minnesota. She and Flora Sylvester Cheney were politically active. A park bench commemorates them.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hpherald.com/evening_digest/hyde-park-stories-the-cheney-goode-memorial-bench/article_fbbe34a2-2d2b-11ec-9107-130a8e43cbc7.html|title=Hyde Park Stories: The Cheney-Goode Memorial Bench|first=Patricia L.|last=Morse|website=Hyde Park Herald|date=14 October 2021 }}{{Cite web|url=http://chicagopublicart.blogspot.com/2013/09/cheney-goode-memorial.html|title=Chicago Public Art: Cheney-Goode Memorial}} Cheney campaigned for Charles E. Merriam.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hpherald.com/mrs-katherine-h-goode-standing-on-a-train-platform-and-holding-a-piece-of-luggage/image_102aae60-2d2d-11ec-9997-8704da27474b.html|title=Mrs. Katherine H. Goode standing on a train platform and holding a piece of luggage|first=Left, DN-0067721; Right, DN-0078251, Chicago Daily News collection, Chicago History|last=Museum|website=Hyde Park Herald|date=14 October 2021 }}

Goode campaigned for civil rights including voting rights for women. She also advocated for an eight-hour workday, women on juries, and better conditions for incarcerated women.