William Clark Goddard was born at St. Ansgar, Iowa, on August 27, 1871. In 1912 he and a partner started the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Grace City. In 1933 they moved to New Rockford. He retired in 1954 to Cheyenne, Wyoming. He married Anna Pearse in 1900 and they had two daughters: Vera and Billie.
Anna died at Grace City in 1927 and William later married Florence R. Brown.
William died in 1959 and is buried at Cheyenne Memorial Gardens, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 61B