Edwin Weyburn Goodwin

Edwin Weyburn Goodwin (October 1800 – September 13, 1845) was an American itinerant miniature and portrait painter active in upstate New York, and father of trompe-l'oeil painter Richard La Barre Goodwin. An abolitionist, he was a stationmaster on the Underground Railroad and published the anti-slavery newspaper The Tocsin of Liberty.

Personal life Goodwin was born in Ovid, New York, in October 1800. He was largely self-educated and twice married, first to Almira Ives, who was born January 1, 1801, and died around 1837. They had five children. His second marriage was to Almira LaBarre (born October 29, 1817) in May 1839 at South Lansing, New York. They had three children. He lived in Dryden, Ludlowville, Auburn, and Albany, New York. His subjects included anti-slavery activists President Martin Van Buren, William H. Seward (given to the city of Albany), DeWitt Clinton, James G. Birney, and Gerrit Smith of Albany.

He was an ardent abolitionist and abstinence advocate, taking ownership of The Tocsin of Liberty, an anti-slavery newspaper in Albany, around 1843 or 1844. He produced sketches for the Albany Patriot and the Tocsin of Liberty, both abolitionist newspapers. His papers are archived in the Smithsonian Institution.