Adelaide B. Goodman (maiden name: Dewey) was born on January 3, 1839, in Pennsylvania to Solomon G. Dewey and Adelaide Blanchard. Her father probably died during her childhood, and by 1850, she was living in her grandfather Isaac Blanchard’s household in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She married Andrew T. Goodman on April 20, 1858, and they had at least two children: Roland, born around 1860; and Amy, born around 1862. Her husband earned a living as a clerk.
By 1870, they were living in her uncle Henry Blanchard’s household in Philadelphia. They moved to Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, in the late 1800s, and her husband died there on September 20, 1913. She applied for a widow’s pension two weeks later and eventually received one. By 1920, she was living in her daughter Amy’s household in Philadelphia. She died of cerebral apoplexy in Philadelphia on July 2, 1922.