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'''Logwood Ulysses Goin''' (born [[November 24]], [[1873]] in Florence, died [[January 19]], [[1941]]) was a physician.

Goin was the son of James J. & Mary Logwood Goin. He attended public schools in Florence and later in [[Birmingham]], but left school at age twelve to operate a grocery store, where he earned enough money to enroll in the prep school of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee in [[1889]]. He completed his bachelor of arts degree, with honors, in [[1896]] and his M.D. at Meharry Medical College in the same city in [[1899]]. He then moved to [[Birmingham]] to begin practicing medicine and joined the staff of the [[George C. Hall Hospital|Home Hospital]]. He served as medical examiner for numerous fraternal organizations, as well as for the Reliance Life Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the Old Colony Life Insurance Company of Chicago, Illinois.

Goin was also a director of the [[Prudential Savings Bank]], founded by fellow physician [[Ulysses Mason]], and a co-founder and trustee of [[Central Alabama College]] in [[Mason City]]. He held shares in the [[People's Grocery Company]] and the [[Fayette Oil & Gas Company]]. He kept his offices in the [[Pythian Temple]] at 310 [[18th Street North]] and a [[Logwood Goin residence|residence]] at 1412 [[7th Avenue North]].

Goin married the former [[Blanche Goin|Blanche Thornton]] of Dallas, Texas in [[1899]] and had two children, Susye Maye and Lagwood, Jr. He was later married to the former Laura O. Parker.

In [[1909]] Goin took up residence in a house at 1404 [[6th Avenue North]] recently vacated by tailor [[Robert L. Jackson]].

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==References==
* Hamilton, G. P. (1911) ''[http://archive.org/stream/beaconlightsrac00hamigoog#page/n4/mode/2up Beacon Lights of the Race]''. Memphis, Tennessee: P. H. Clark & Brother, pp. 93-96
* Mather, Frank Lincoln, ed. (1915) ''Who's who of the Colored Race: A General Biographical Dictionary of Men and Women of African Descent.'' Vol. I

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